Everyone's a Critic... even of Critics"Notes from New York Times Critic Watch
The NYT Critic Watch project was designed to gives us some numbers about modern theater criticism. We are awash in opinion, in curiosity, in hurt feelings, in hopes for a hit, and in the dual notion of wanting not to care but desperate for praise. Reviews have great power on the life of a new play, especially ones from the New York Times . But do we agree with them? Do we enjoy reading them? Are they focusing on the …