A Dialogue Between Plays and the World

New York Times: "It seems inevitable that every awards season eventually becomes an occasion to lament the state of the medium receiving the toast. We decry the pandering. We rage against the casting of movie stars onstage; we scream at the thought of a “Mission: Impossible VIII”; we persist in equating reality television with the end of reason. On Broadway, the critics moan, there are too few compelling straight plays and too many dopey musical revivals, a complaint leveled not out of some stuffy commitment to archaic aesthetics but because the countervailing evidence (lately at least) has remained so slim."