Those of you who visited the New York Drama Critics’ Circle’s new Web site to read about this year’s awards may have noticed that its members are all connected in some way or other with the print media. This fact has not gone unnoticed in our shop. It’s been discussed, and will continue to be discussed. I can’t tell you anything more specific than that, but I can say that there is a sharp division of opinion among our membership about whether or not we ought to admit exclusively Web-based writers to our ranks.
Regardless of what we decide, it strikes me that somebody out there in the ‘sphere ought to consider starting a similar group of Web-based drama critics and commentators that would give its own theater awards each year, just like the NYDCC and the Outer Critics Circle.
The number of serious and committed stagebloggers reached a critical mass (so to speak) this season, and I now spend at least as much time keeping up with what they write as I do reading the reviews of my print-media brethren. I have no organizational skills, but as one of the few drama critics in New York with a foot firmly planted in both camps, I’d be glad to do what I could to help get such an organization started.
How about it, stagebloggers? Is anyone interested?
UPDATE: Mr. Superfluities is game.
So is Mr. Parabasis.