Tim Treanor reviews his life as a theatre critic

dctheatrescene.com: I am – was – the lawyer for DC Theatre Scene, and have the melancholy task of closing the house. I had long retired as a critic, having lost the heart for it, although I still reviewed plays when necessary pursuant to the in-house counsel’s first rule, which is not to let the house burn down. “Closing the house” describes a legal and ministerial task, but also a surprisingly physical one: putting an enormous pile of undifferentiated theater programs into some sort of order.