This week, New York Magazine‘s “Approval Matrix,” the magazine’s “deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on [its] taste hierarchies,” includes Millennial Stages by Robert Brustein. The magazine placed it in the “Highbrow” and “Brilliant” quarter and called it an “essential collection of dramatic criticism.” View the entire Matrix here.

In Millennial Stages (Yale University Press, 2006), Brustein considers crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, assesses specific plays and performing artists, and reminds us why theater matters.