sentences:  In an interview with a Romanian TV station, he compared the intransigent leftist atmosphere dominating the American academia to the oppressive one in communist Romania, where artists were told by party functionaries how to think and how to create.Andrei Șerban is the recipient of the 1974-75 Obie Award for "Trilogy".In 1999, he received from the Boston Theater Critics Association the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence.