Let The Tony Backlash Begin!

As the New York theatre world prepares to congratulate itself at the Tony Awards, the critics are having their usual round of ‘what’s wrong with Broadway these days.’ “We decry the pandering. We rage against the casting of movie stars onstage… Yet among the many musty postures we might adopt toward the current season, carping that the theater ignored issues of consequence to the grim national mood simply should not be one of them.”