Rogoff graduated with a
bachelor's of arts from
Yale University in 1952. He was a Professor Emeritus of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at
Yale School of Drama. During the 1970s, Rogoff was the director of the Center for Theatre Research at
SUNY Buffalo. He also worked with the
Actors Studio and
The Open Theater, both in
Manhattan, New York. Rogoff was a theatre critic for
The Village Voice during the 1970s and 1980s.] He also wrote for
The Nation,
The New Republic,
The Virginia Quarterly Review, and
The Reporter, as well as
Parnassus: Poetry in Review and
The Yale Review. during the 1970s alongside
Michael Feingold, Ren Frutkin, and
Richard Gilman. Rogoff published multiple books, including
Theater is Not Safe and
Vanishing Acts: Theater Since the Sixties (2000).
Vanishing Acts was published by
Yale University Press and compiled Rogoff's writing on theatre artists including
Peter Brook,
Robert Wilson,
Ariane Mnouchkine,
Samuel Beckett,
Tennessee Williams,
Alban Berg,
Tony Kushner,
Laurence Olivier,
Donald Wolfit,
Judi Dench,
Anthony Hopkins,
Dustin Hoffman,
Al Pacino,
Lee J. Cobb,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Geraldine Page,
Joseph Papp,
Eugene O'Neill, and
Arthur Miller, among others. His
life partner was
playwright and visual artist Morton Lichter. Rogoff died on January 26, 2024, at the age of 92. == Awards and recognition ==