Lily Janiak takes a look at San Franisco-based Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Alsoas it explores the new frontier: what that meant to the first American settlers, and what the frontier means now.
A career as a theatre critic may not be directly linked to accolades and acclaim. Jason Zinoman meditates on the nuanced benefits of critically thinking about art full-time.
If critics evaluate theatre in consideration of who’s the primary audience and the function of the piece, theatre has the potential of bettering itself from criticism.