Although I irresponsibly let my own membership lapse a few years ago, I'll remedy that posthaste.
Check out this deserved drubbing.
About Me
- Freeman
- Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn based playwright with a BFA from Emerson College. His plays include THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR, REASONS FOR MOVING, THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE AMERICANS, THE WHITE SWALLOW, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR, THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE, WHEN IS A CLOCK, GLEE CLUB, THAT OLD SOFT SHOE and BRANDYWINE DISTILLERY FIRE. He served as Assistant Producer and Senior Writer for the live webcast from Times Square on New Year's Eve 2010-2012. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to Gamespy, Premiere, Complex Magazine, Maxim Online, and MTV Magazine. His plays have been published by Playscripts, Inc., New York Theatre Experience, and Samuel French.
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How terrible. The Sun-Times should let her go, but it sounds like they've been letting her get away with this kind of thing for years.
Any idea if she, or the Sun Times has written a response to the Dramatisits Guild, or any of the numerous letters that I am sure have come in since?
She has posted a response...
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11772
Curiouser and curiouser...I still shudder at the idea of being reviewed on 10 minutes of a performance.
Okay, now, hold on...
There's an article about this in the NYTimes today. The company hosting the workshops never said they couldn't be reviewed, and in fact gave her a press kit and photos when she arrived. What were they expecting? Plus, she reviewed their stuff before to no objection. I agree you shouldn't review a workshop, and that Ms. Weiss should have known better than to review unfinished stuff that she didn't even stay to the end of, even if she was asked, but in light of the Times article it's a bit disingenuous for the theatre to get all huffy and question her professional ethics because, basically, they didn't like what she wrote. Easy solution: next time, state explicitly that the workshop is not open for review, and don't invite critics and provide them with press kits. Problem solved.
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