The lively ART

The resident repertory company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, affiliated with Harvard and known as the American Repertory Theatre, has long been considered one of the country's most innovative cultural resources. Here is a treasury of criticism, reflection, observation, and insight from the A.R.T.'s past twenty years, gleaned from its newsletters, conferences, post-production symposia, and pre-show talks, abundantly illustrated with photographs from A.R.T. archives. The notable contributors include a great many brilliant poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, scholars, lawyers, theatre directors, designers, and clowns, many of them Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.