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Don Rubin
Theatre historian, writer and
critic, Professor Rubin is executive editor of the six-volume World
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, the largest international
cooperative project in the history of cultural publishing (Routledge
1995–2000). He was the founding editor of Canada’s national theatre
journal, the Canadian
Theatre Review
(CTR), which he edited from 1974 to 1982. Under his aegis, an
active theatre book publishing program grew from CTR. Major titles
have included the archival series Canada on Stage and the historical
series Canada’s Lost Plays.
Professor Rubin’s other publications
include Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings (Copp Clark,
Toronto, 1996; 2nd ed. Playwrights Canada Press, 2004), the first sourcebook
ever in Canadian theatre history. As a theatre critic, he has written
for major journals, magazines and newspapers worldwide. For several
years he was a regular critic for the Toronto
Star, CBC Radio and the New Haven Register
(Connecticut). Widely travelled, he has lectured on Canadian theatre
in France, Russia, Bulgaria, India, Poland, Hungary and China. He is
a former president of the Canadian Centre of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre
Institute and served
for six years as chair of the ITI’s publications committee. He currently
teaches at York University.
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