{"id":548,"date":"2004-02-13T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/02\/comparative_notices\/"},"modified":"2004-02-13T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:22:23","slug":"comparative_notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/02\/comparative_notices.html","title":{"rendered":"COMPARATIVE NOTICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Full exposure: There&#8217;s nothing to deflate the self-regard of theater critics like comparing their<br \/>\nnotices. Here&#8217;s what they said about the Aquila Theatre Company&#8217;s staging of &#8220;Agamemnon,&#8221;<br \/>\nwhich opened last night in New York. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Notice, please, that the issue is not who&#8217;s right or who&#8217;s wrong, so much as why are all of<br \/>\nthem somehow ridiculous? Have a look at <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/theater\/story\/163947p-143695c.html\"><B><E\nM><FONT color=#003399>Howard Kissel<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in New York&#8217;s Daily<br \/>\nNews; <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/stage\/ny-p2winer23667916feb13,0,1410893.story?\ncoll=ny-theater-headlines\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Linda<br \/>\nWiner<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in Newsday; <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/13\/arts\/theater\/13AGAM.html\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Ben Brantley<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in The New York Times; <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/entertainment\/16230.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Donald Lyons<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in the New York Post; <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/theatredance\/ledger\/index.ssf?\/base\/entertainment-1\/107665672714036\n0.xml\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Michael Sommers<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in<br \/>\nNewark&#8217;s The Star-Ledger; Artsjournal.com&#8217;s own <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/archives20040208.shtml#69706\"><B><EM><F\nONT color=#003399>Terry Teachout<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in The Wall Street Journal; and<br \/>\n<A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040208.shtml#69526\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>yours truly<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>&nbsp;below.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full exposure: There&#8217;s nothing to deflate the self-regard of theater critics like comparing their notices. Here&#8217;s what they said about the Aquila Theatre Company&#8217;s staging of &#8220;Agamemnon,&#8221; which opened last night in New York. Notice, please, that the issue is not who&#8217;s right or who&#8217;s wrong, so much as why are all of them somehow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}