Doing Time on the Other Side
I was a theater critic for five years. Then I got better. Okay, that's a cheap shot. The fact is, I'm thankful for my time as the lead theater critic for Seattle Weekly from 1995 to 2000. For one thing, it was the beginning of my life as a paid writer. Playwriting is a tremendously impractical way of making a living, and back in that pre-blog decade, arts journalism actually looked like a real career. While making mo…