“What we are seeing these days is, more precisely, the theatrical version of the hostile takeover. ‘Englut and devour’ – the name that Mel Brooks once invented for a Hollywood studio – is becoming the motto of the American stage. The triumph of American commercialism is hardly a novelty of the millennium. What is different today is the lack of any indignation about it. It seems almost quixotic these days to criticize the relationship between art and commerce, and a little nostalgic even to try to evoke any interest in the question.” – The New Republic