tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post4738397761846133181..comments2023-07-02T05:14:05.375-04:00Comments on The Clyde Fitch Report: Comments on "Some Thoughts on Theater Coverage"Leonard Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-37371016315061764222007-07-20T12:16:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:16:00.000-04:00Perhaps all pretensions the theatre review once ha...Perhaps all pretensions the theatre review once had about being criticism should now finally be buried.<BR/><BR/>If the argument on “theatre coverage” is reduced to one of quantity, with no longer any concerns on quality, why not divide the theatre review’s ten or twenty inches of print in half and cover two plays for each one you now cover? As far as many theatre producers are concerned, that could be divided even further. Just as long as the pull-quotes survive for their PR package.<BR/><BR/>However, an artist and producer might attempt to differentiate between audience and box office, community and fandom. The critic might make a similar differentiation about readership. <BR/><BR/>There is an extended interesting weeklong conversation at Art Journal’s Flyover blog about “service journalism” and about what John Stoehr sees as<BR/><BR/>“the growing national issue of quid pro quo between writers and readers, artists and audiences, newspapers and the communities they cover.”<BR/> http://www.artsjournal.com/flyover/2007/07/a_resurgence_of_criticism.htmlNick https://www.blogger.com/profile/13280949568861084843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-74551738251531750962007-07-19T00:39:00.000-04:002007-07-19T00:39:00.000-04:00I haven't considered Providence...maybe I should.....I haven't considered Providence...maybe I should...<BR/><BR/>And I'm out of Amarillo, thank you. Not so easily, but yes, out. Off to the Iowa Fringe Festival...Zachary R. Mannheimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14222910712949524051noreply@blogger.com