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Critical Blast From the Past: Hack! Thump! Rustle! Ah-choo!
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Here is a random roster of playgoing pests, may Thespis strike each of them dumb.
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Arts Commentary: Critical Rule #1 — Don’t Write Like a Publicist
Early on I was given these words of wisdom by my friend, the late theater critic Arthur Friedman: “Criticism should not read as if it had been written by a publicist.
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