Six Characters in Search of an Author

The American Repertory Theatre (AR.), founded by Robert Brustein, has been active for thirty years as a professional producing organization and theatrical training institu­tion. Following his appointment as Dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, Mr. Brustein established the Yale Repertory Theatre and served as its Artistic Director for the next thirteen years. In 1980 Mr. Brustein, along with Managing Director Robert J. Orchard and the bulk of the artistic, technical, and administrative staff, moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the newly named American Repertory Theatre began its association with Harvard University operating from the Loeb Drama Centre. Now in its eighteenth season in Cambridge, the Company has presented one hundred and thirty-four productions, sixty-six of which were pre­mieres, new translations and adaptations; has toured the length of the United States as well as twelve foreign countries, and has become recognized as one of the premiere theatres in the country. As one of the few companies in this a resident acting ensemble still performing in rotating repertory, the American Repertory Theatre has welcomed major American and international theatre artists who, with their special talents, have enlivened the theatrical atmosphere of the whole nation.