Riedel To Mimi: What Were You Thinking?

Influential NY theater critic Michael Riedel is slamming the organizers of the new $200,000 “Mimi” award for handing their first-ever prize to already-successful playwright Tony Kushner. In addition to the argument that such prizes should go to up-and-coming playwrights who need the cash, Riedel snarks, “If an advisory board is going to give someone $200,000, that board probably shouldn’t be made up of the recipient’s friends.”