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The Critic as Subject for Review: Cultural Calisthenics
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Jewish Exponent
01-28-1999
The Critic as Subject for Review: Cultural Calisthenics
Robert Brustein's newest collection of theater pieces, Cultural Calisthenics, recently published by the estimable Chicago publishing firm of Ivan R. Dee, is much like the compilations the critic has been publishing every two or three years since the 1960s, beginning with Seasons of Discontent.
I have read Brustein faithfully over the years in the pages of The New Republi...
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