My muse, Marian Seldes, who in June will receive a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award to match the Lifetime Achievement Obie Award she already possesses, is a critic's daughter. So as I traveled last week's lengthy odyssey of theatergoing, which included three media-heavy musicals, the news of her honor made me think of something her father, Gilbert Seldes, had said in one of his later works, an... More >>>