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The smaller newspapers probably won't have any critics at all. Maybe that's not such a bad thing because there's a certain level of seriousness that you can't get with a small newspaper for critics.

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The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

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In a world without any criticism at all, although there are many actors who would think they would be delighted to see that happen, would in fact be a far more problematic world than they could ever imagine.

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Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.

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There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.

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David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.

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There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

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All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

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I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

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Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: February 6th, 1956

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