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The American Repertory Theatre (or A.R.T.) is housed in the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein . Its last artistic director was Robert Woodruff. It is currently lead by Acting Artistic Director Gideon Lester. The A.R.T premiered the Pulitzer Prize winning play Night, Mother by Marsha Norman in 1982. It is also famous for director JoAnne Akalaitis' 1984 production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, which angered the author by not following his stage directions and setting the play in a subway. In 2003, Time Magazine recognized it as one of the top five regional theaters in the US.[1]

Famous playwrights and directors

The A.R.T. prides itself on presenting both American and World premiere productions. Over the years, these have included works by Robert Auletta, Robert Brustein, Anton Chekhov, Don DeLillo, Keith Dewhurst, Christopher Durang, Elizabeth Egloff, Peter Feibleman, Jules Feiffer, Dario Fo, Carlos Fuentes, Larry Gelbart, Leslie Glass, Philip Glass, Stuart Greenman, William Hauptman, Allan Havis, Milan Kundera, Mark Leib, Gideon Lester, David Lodge, Carol K. Mack, David Mamet, Charles L. Mee, Roger Miller, John Moran, Robert Moran, Heiner Müller, Marsha Norman, Han Ong, Amanda Palmer, David Rabe, Franca Rame, Adam Rapp, Keith Reddin, Ronald Ribman, Paula Vogel, Derek Walcott, Naomi Wallace, and Robert Wilson.

The A.R.T. has also engaged a collection of world famous stage directors throughout the years, including JoAnne Akalaitis, Andrei Belgrader, Anne Bogart, Lee Breuer, Robert Brustein, Liviu Ciulei, Ron Daniels, Liz Diamond, Joe Dowling, Michael Engler, Alvin Epstein, Dario Fo, Richard Foreman, David Gordon, Adrian Hall, Richard Jones, Michael Kahn, Jerome Kilty, Krystian Lupa, John Madden, David Mamet, Des McAnuff, Jonathan Miller, Tom Moore, David Rabe, François Rochaix, Robert Scanlan, János Szász, Peter Sellars, Andrei Şerban, Sxip Shirey, Susan Sontag, Marcus Stern, Slobodan Unkovski, Les Waters, David Wheeler, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Wilson, Robert Woodruff, Yuri Yeremin, Francesca Zambello, and Scott Zigler.

Production history

2007-2008 Season

Educational institution

In 1987, the A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, a five semester professional training M.F.A. program which includes a three month period working and training at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia. This program provides training for graduate-level actors, dramaturgs, and voice students. For a time, the Institute included a director-training program, which is currently defunct.

Performance venues

In addition to the mainstage at the Loeb Drama Center, in 2005 the A.R.T. opened a new black box theater space in Cambridge, at Zero Arrow Street, the aptly named Zero Arrow Theatre. This 300 seat space will house productions by the A.R.T. as well as outside companies and organizations.

Before the Zero Arrow Theatre opened the A.R.T. used the old Hasty Pudding theatre in addition to the Loeb Mainstage, and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training used the sub-basement of The First Parish in Cambridge, Zero Church Street, a flexible almost black box venue, which they still occasionally use.

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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
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Country United States
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County Middlesex
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Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927) is an American educator, theatre critic, director, playwright and author. Brustein is a graduate of Amherst College (BA), Yale University (MA, School of Drama), and Columbia University (Phd).
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For the director of a musical company, see .
The Artistic Director of a theatre company is the individual with the ultimate artistic control of the theatre's production choices, directorial choices and overall artistic vision.
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Robert Woodruff (born 1947) is an American theatre director.

His undergraduate education culminated with his graduation Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from University at Buffalo in political science.
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Pulitzer Prize

Awarded for Excellence in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition
Presented by Columbia University
Country  United States
First awarded 1917
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For the film based on the play, see 'night, Mother (film).
'night, Mother is a 1983 play by Marsha Norman about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma (referred to as "Mama" in the play).
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Marsha Norman (b. September 21, 1947[1]) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer and novelist. She won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother.
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JoAnne Akalaitis (born June 29, 1937) is a Lithuanian-American theatre director and a writer and the winner of five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York, from which she resigned after twenty years in
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Samuel Beckett

Pseudonym: Andrew Belis (Recent Irish Poetry)[1]
Born: 13 March 1906(1906--)
Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 22 November 1989 (aged 83)
Paris, France
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Endgame is a one-act play with four characters by Samuel Beckett. It was originally written in French, entitled Fin de partie; as was his custom, it was translated into English by Beckett himself.
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Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London.
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Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927) is an American educator, theatre critic, director, playwright and author. Brustein is a graduate of Amherst College (BA), Yale University (MA, School of Drama), and Columbia University (Phd).
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Антон Павлович Чехов Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, by Osip Braz, 1898
Born: 29 January [O.S.
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Don DeLillo

Born: November 20 1936 (1936--) (age 72)
New York City
Occupation: novelist
Nationality: United States
Literary movement: Postmodern
Debut works:
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Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.
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Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice, and in 2004 was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame.
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Dario Fo

Born: March 24 1926 (1926--) (age 81)
Leggiuno-Sangiano, Italy
Occupation: playwright
Nationality: Italian
Genres: Drama Dario Fo
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Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and
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Larry Simon Gelbart (born February 25 1928 in Chicago) is a prolific American comedy writer with over sixty years of credits.

He began as a writer for Danny Thomas radio show during 1940s, and wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope.
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Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century[1][2][3][4][5]
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    WINNER
  • Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical - Big River - WINNER

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  • William Hauptman at the Internet Movie Database

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Allan Havis (b. 1951) is a playwright with pronounced political themes and probes on colliding cultures. His works range from minimal language texts to ambiguous, ironic narratives that delineate the genesis, paradoxes, and seduction of evil.
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Milan Kundera (IPA: ['mɪlan 'kundɛra]) (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech-born writer who has written books in both Czech and French.
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David Lodge is the name of:
  • David Lodge (actor) (1921–2003), a British character actor
  • David Lodge (voice actor)
  • David Lodge (author) (born 1935), a British author

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David Mamet

David Mamet in the WNYC studios in Feb. 2007
Born: November 30 1947 (1947--) (age 61)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Charles L. Mee is an American playwright and author. He was born in Barrington, Illinois in 1938. He was stricken with polio in 1953, which he details in his 1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life.
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Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is best known for his 1965 hits King of the Road and "Dang Me.
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John Moran is an American composer, author and choreographer. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1965.

John Moran has generally been considered the protege of composer Philip Glass.
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Robert Moran (born January 8, 1937) is a renowned American composer of operas and ballets as well as numerous orchestral, vocal, chamber and dance works.

A native of Denver, Moran studied music in Vienna and completed his Masters Degree at Mills College in Oakland,
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