One of the subtexts of the recent news that Backstage would discontinue theater reviews altogether is that it was never inevitable that an actors' trade paper would review theater. Clearly Backstage's corporate overlords had looked at the metrics and at their readership"basically, beginning actors"and asked the common-sense question, Why are we covering all this theater? This anomaly could be particularly …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:52AM on May 23, 2013