LA Stage Blog - Beta

Question:
Why have the theatres of Los Angeles (excepting Center Theatre Group and the Theatre @ Boston Court) embraced StageSceneLA and Mr. Steven Stanley’s internet reviews that always ‘accentuate the positive’? Why do they give him free tickets and use his quotations in their materials if he only says positive things and is not associated [...]

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Maybe we should re-imagine the profession of the critic?
Starting off by perhaps calling them “Advocates” or “Arts Advocates” rather than “reviewers” or “critics”?  I realize there’s a gay magazine (or a religious magazine not sure which) called the Advocate - so they may have already co-opted the word “advocate”.  I remember I fought my gay [...]

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