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American Repertory Theatre 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 and
Robert J. Orchard . Its present
artistic director is
Robert Woodruff . The A.R.T premiered the
Pulitzer Prize winning play
Night, Mother by
Marsha Norman in 1982. It's 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.
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 ,
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 ,
Milan Kundera ,
Mark Leib ,
David Lodge ,
Carol K. Mack ,
David Mamet ,
Charles L. Mee ,
Roger Miller ,
John Moran ,
Robert Moran ,
Heiner Müller ,
Marsha Norman ,
Han Ong ,
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 ,
John Madden ,
David Mamet ,
Des McAnuff ,
Jonathan Miller ,
Tom Moore ,
David Rabe ,
François Rochaix ,
Robert Scanlan ,
János Szász ,
Peter Sellars ,
Andrei Serban ,
Susan Sontag ,
Marcus Stern ,
Slobodan Unkovski ,
Les Waters ,
David Wheeler ,
Frederick Wiseman ,
Robert Wilson ,
Robert Woodruff ,
Yuri Yeremin ,
Francesca Zambello , and
Scott Zigler .
In 1987, the A.R.T. founded the
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training , a five semester professional training 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 and dramaturgs. For a time, the Institute included a director-training program, which is currently defunct.
In addition to the
Loeb Drama Center , in 2005 the A.R.T. opened a new theater space in
Cambridge at Zero Arrow Street, the aptly named
Zero Arrow Street . This 300 seat space will house productions by the A.R.T. as well as outside companies and organizations.
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American Repertory Theatre website *
Institute for Advanced Theatre Traning catalog *
Zero Arrow Street Homepage
