A SIXTH REASON DRAMAS STRUGGLE IN NEW YORK. This article by Campbell Robertson in the New York Times for February 25 says, “Each new Broadway season opens with a cherished ritual. The play is proclaimed dead, killed by — pick one or more — the musical, the tourists, the unions, the cost of advertising or the general decline of American culture.” He omits a sixth possible reason, the hostility of influential critics who are eloquent about the boredom that drama can cause them or about how most drama on Broadway isn’t good. See here and here.
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Theater critics come off as pretty smarmy, especially this Isherwood fellow. I’m not saying everyone has to be Gene Shalit or anything, but at least tell your readers WHY something was utter crap.
To do so would imply some sort of equality, Lee, and who wants to hear opinions from their peers?