Robert Woodruff has a tough job – succeeding the legendary Robert Brustein as director of American Reportory Theatre in Cambridge. Some thought the director and the new job might not be a good fit. But “offstage, stripped of the spotlight, the outlaw director comes across as surprisingly regular. For all his Johnny Cash cool, he is equal parts Woody Allen: a slightly neurotic New Yorker overworked and unwilling to rest until every detail is in place. Strip away a few sexy hobbies – riding his BMW motorcycle, hiking to 18,000 feet in Tibet – and Robert Woodruff’s life outside the theater begins to sound pretty bland. In fact, there is little in his life that doesn’t involve theater.”