Critical Defense Posture
There is a lot of hyperventilating over the state of theater criticism lately.Just a few weeks ago, we had one of the old lions, retired New Yorker Critic John Lahr, assailing the younger generation of print critics. His hyperventilating turned out to be extraordinarily wheezy though.This week, Howlround,( the online journal for the Theater Commons at Emerson,) has solicited some pieces from several critics and…