criticism
The time is overdue for a serious discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don’t expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
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Are Boston’s stage critics disengaged from reality? Or is it that they are afraid to speak up?
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RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.
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Cinema reviewing exists as a respected profession only as long as the traditional role of the critic is honored.
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Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.
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Every organization in the Barr Foundation’s charmed circle — large arts groups and The ARTery — have a financial stake in reinforcing the belief that the Barr’s money is being put to supremely successful use.
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Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
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Can anyone — with a straight face — argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas?
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The media big boys should be part of the discussion, if only because they have the resources to change the situation for the better.
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Arts Commentary: The Declining State of the Art of Arts Journalism
Theater critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts columnists have been stripped from our dailies and weeklies. Why should you care? Oscar Wilde warned that an age without criticism is “an age that possesses no art at all.”
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