My friend Matthew Murray (Broadway critic for TalkinBroadway.com) has been working on this piece for a week. Here’s his opening paragraph:
Despite having a reputation for being a tough (and sometimes overly tough) critic, I love theatre at least as much as anyone—and, given the sheer amount of it I see and write about each year, I would argue more than most people. The benefit of operating at that level is that you meet and get to know lots of people who are at least as into the whole practice of theatre and theatre worship as you are, and share your habits and pastimes with them. In the past few months we’ve all adopted one that’s both strangely fun and astonishingly depressing: hating on Smash.
So of course you want to read the rest…