Robert Wilson in 2001. When Robert Wilson founded his experimental performance company in 1968, he named it the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds after a teacher who helped him manage a stutter as a teenager. This simple nod to the importance of mentors—to nurture, to challenge, and to enliven—returns like a refrain whenever those close to Wilson (“Bob” to friends and fans) speak of the legendary avant-garde theater director and artist or his half-ce…
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