A Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and a Jujamcyn Award all came to the American Repertory Theater, the not-for-profit company housed in the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge. Since its founding in 1980 by Robert Brustein, the A.R.T. has been known for its commitment to new American plays and music–theater explorations, to neglected works of the past, and to established classical texts reinterpreted in refreshing new ways. Over the past forty years it has garnered many of the nation’s most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize (1982), a Tony Award (1986), and a Jujamcyn Award (1985).
In 2002 it received the National Theatre Conference's Outstanding Achievement Award and was named one of the top three theaters in the country by Time magazine in 2003. The company operates the Institute for Advanced Theater Training and shares this building with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club. Artistic leadership shifted here as well: Robert Woodruff replaced Robert Brustein as artistic director in 2002; after Woodruff’s departure in 2007, Gideon Lester filled the position for the 2008/2009 season, and in May 2008 Diane Paulus was named the new artistic director.
Notice the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club sharing this building, alongside the Institute for Advanced Theater Training the company operates.