ABSTRACT
There are those who claim they never read reviews, and if so, they are spared the joys and sorrows heaped on playwrights by critics. It is also popular, in playwriting circles, to say that if you believe your good reviews, you also have to believe the bad ones. There are also those playwrights who pray for specific critics to re view their shows, because they believe they are in good favor with that critic, based on previous reviews, or the opposite — the belief that a critic doesn’t understand your work and is likely to decimate it every time they are allowed to review one of your shows.
