The Clive Barnes Award Support and Celebrate Young Actors
During his tenure as The New York Times’ chief theater critic, Clive Barnes could make or break a performance with one review. Yet his acuity for discovering fresh talent is, perhaps, his most lasting legacy. According to his wife, Valerie Taylor-Barnes, Barnes “could recognize young talent, and he was nearly always right”—including being the first critic to note newcomer Mikhail Baryshnikov a…