OK, sorry for bothering you. Go buy my play.
With a student I.D., up to two tickets @ $10/ticket:
DC4TONY
Up to 6 tickets @ $45/ticket, open to anyone: DC45LCT
"7) How much do you think artists should be changing
their work or their creative direction based on
critics' feedback?
Well, if the quality of critics were high, I'd say
that they should. But generally, theater critics are
almost as irrelevant as theater is to the average TV
and film-addicted booby. My younger colleagues are
smart and talented, but the most influential critical
posts in this city are jealousy guarded by a wizened
knot of nostalgia-drenched mediocrities who have no
idea what the next generation is doing and can barely
stay on top of what's happening on Broadway. They are
advocates of nothing but their own pathetic memories
of musicals or plays in the 60s and 70s; they have
about as much vision as the bureaucratic philistines
we call artistic directors."
Anyway, here is a post from Patrick about writing
novels vs. plays:
http://writinglife3.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-writing-novels-is-harder-than.html
"What is troubling is the focus on personal behavior
as the solution to what is at least in part a problem
of the economy," she said. "Given what we know about
the growth of low-wage jobs and the shrinking of the
middle class, it will be, in fact, impossible to bring
more people into the middle class unless we improve
the labor market as well."
I picked up this book for free outside a book store
and I just realized by looking at Amazon that it is
not available until May. I count myself lucky in that
I get to read it now and didn't even have to have a no paying or low paying job in publishing or retail. Sometimes it
helps to be at the right place at the right time.
