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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mark Kennedy

Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer who founded stage programs for Yale and Harvard, dies

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Robert Brustein, a giant in the theatrical world as critic, playwright, crusader for artistic integrity and founder of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, has died. He was 96.

Brustein died on Sunday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to an emailed statement from Gideon Lester, the artistic director and chief executive of the Fisher Center at Bard University and a decades’ long family friend. Lester said he heard the news from Brustein's his wife, Doreen Beinart.

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