Category: Theatre

I suspect there are critics who write half their reviews before they see the shows in question. I’m not like that. If I’ve read the script or heard the musical on CD, I probably have a preconceived opinion of the text, but I’ve been argued out of that by productions before. I do keep an…

“I have always been very fond of [theatre critics]….I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.”–Noel Coward I read a lot of criticism, not (just) because I delight in the humiliation of wannabe artists. I love art, entertainment, and Western…