Robert Brustein — American Educator born on April 21, 1927,

Robert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He comments on politics for the Huffington Post... (wikipedia)

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.