Playwrights Should Write, Directors Should Direct

To the Editor:

Like his earlier screed in your pages about dramaturgs ("A Good Director Doesn't Need a Dramaturg," The Review, June 29), Terry McCabe's September 21 piece, "Brustein: Center Stage for Better and Worse" (The Review), takes a whack at JoAnne Akalaitis's production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, this time making it emblematic of what McCabe sees as Robert Brustein's baleful influence on the American theater. ...

McCabe insists that the only acceptable interpretive

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