The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

He comments on politics for the Huffington Post. Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21 1927) is an American theatrical critic producer playwright and educator. In 2003 he served as a Senior Fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University and in 2004 and 2005 was a senior fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts Arts Journalism Institute in Theatre and Musical Theatre at the University of Southern California.