“While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.” PeopleEvilFeltSeriousTheaterAgreeCriticsDecentQuartersUnnecessaryNecessary Evil Author:Jean Kerr
“There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.” WrittenTelevisionTheaterAgreeCriticsLike SomethingMovie Critic Author:Aaron Sorkin
“Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.” IfsWantGivingEndsAudienceTheaterCritics Author:Edward Albee
“To me, the fun part of both jobs is to always try to push the discussion and debate forward in some way. The most fun part of being a theater critic for the Times was always to try and champion something that maybe other people didn't like, or that was produced under obscure circumstances or had to fight for its life. And I would say in the column what I try to do is in some ways related in that I'm trying to fight for a point of view. I'm not trying to be a kingmaker in either job, and don't want to be, and shouldn't be.” PeopleWayWantTryingJobsFightingFunViewsCircumstancesTheaterCriticsPoint Of ViewDebateDiscussionChampionRelatedObscureColumns Author:Frank Rich
“Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.” GivingSidesSinTakenBlessingTheaterCriticsKillingEnthusiasmTrash Book:Tallulah: My Autobiography Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy proposals.” WantPlayMy OwnMediaPolicyTheaterCriticsWant UProposalCritique Author:Ted Cruz
“But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.” IfsWellsMadeInterestingDirectorsTheaterCriticsJapanComparisonConceptionRepresentativesHaikuSweepingNoh Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.” MenLongDonePlayStoriesRoomsWonderfulWrittenTeamHavensNew YorkMajorsEnglandTheaterCriticsReviewsRugbyPremieresRaveConnecticutWonderful Man Author:Richard Masur
“I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.” MenPlayStoriesShowsHeardNew YorkHe ManDirectorsTheaterCriticsSevenGuidesBrilliantCirclesFormerArtisticAwardsButtonsReportersStalkingTrue StoryAmerican LifeRoommateNprBest AmericanSynopsis Author:Adam Richman
“What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.” InspirationalHas BeensArtBookDifferentFineInternetHappeningsTheaterDanceCriticsDisappearDrivenThriveReportersRefugeeRogerFine ArtsReviewersDeforestationMovie Critic Author:James Wolcott