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"To the theatre in this country Robert Brustein has long been indispensable. His voice, his reactions are always eloquent, stimulating."--Susan Sontag

"Mr. Brustein's voice is, to me, like water in the desert--he is harsh, and funny, and insightful, and most important, fearless."--David Mamet

"Robert Brustein is the rarest of rare amphibians: a powerful theatre practitioner who is also a powerful critic.... Savvy, fearless, opinionated, and fathomlessly curious, he is at once steeped in the classics and alert to the most recent tremors on the cultural seismograph."--Stephen Greenblatt