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Thursday, March 12, 2026

What Will D.C. Theatres Do Without a Full-Time Critic at the Post?

AMERICAN THEATRE: What would it look like if a major U.S. theatre city lost its last full-time theatre critic? While many U.S. cities have already run this dystopian experiment, it had never happened to one of American theatre’s largest markets until early in February, when massive layoffs at The Washington Post included its entire arts and culture section, chiefly theatre critic Naveen Kumar, arts and entertainment editor Jonathan Fischer, senior editor Zachary Pincus-Roth, and many more across all departments.

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