First, don't blame me. If New York's theater was in a miserable condition this year—and it was—I've been warning for years that it might come to this. The theater's badness is never really a surprise; it was none even to Bernard Shaw, the best theater critic ever to write in English, who said, after only three years' servitude, "The theater is, was, and eternally will be as bad as it possibly can." This is the bottom line, which every critic... More >>>