“There’s no reason why the arts pages shouldn’t be home to the kind of fierce and animated conversation that the best performance tries to provoke, where the critic who’s seen 50 Hamlets can be joined by the critic who’s part of the cultural and social world that inspires new artists and their audiences. It mightn’t be a bad idea to give the five-nights-a-week theatre critics a bit of a break too. Maybe they could go to the movies and to the opera, and tell us what they think.”