The Boston Globe, June 6th, 2002
We popped into the American Repertory Theatre last week for "Lysistrata," Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war comedy adapted by outgoing artistic director Robert Brustein. We ran into Brustein in the lobby, and talked about how the show has been knocked in the press. "Bizarre," he said. "Word of mouth has been great." The show features a catchy score by Galt McDermot, who wrote the music for "Hair." We rang up the 73-year-old composer to get his take on "Lysistrata." "I'd never really seen the play, but I was interested," he said from his Staten Island home. "It's an anti-war play, I'm an anti-war pe...
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