Criticism and Validation
I have the luxury of being sick enough today that I cannot practically function (no voice and deep cough), but not so sick that I cannot spend moments in-between answering the door for young trick-or-treaters to survey the theatrical blogosphere and see what’s going on. Many things caught my attention, but the two which caused me to do a bit of thinking were the issues surrounding the Michael Feingold article in the Village Voice, and the decision by the New York Times not to run a review written by Rob Kendt of George Hunka’s play In Public. Both these gentlemen are bloggers, and both happen to have written freelance reviews for the NYT in the past. If you know the various bloggers you can take a quick tour around to see what they’ve all written in the past few days on these issues. Continue Reading »

