He is Music Director of Teatro alla Scala and cofounder of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.. Robert Brustein is playwright, director, critic, teacher, founder of Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, currently Distinguished Scholar Residence at Suffolk University. ..…

His nonfiction works include biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at Dairy Queen, Paradise, Sacagawea's Nickname Essays on American West and, most recently, Custer.. ..…