Full exposure: There’s nothing to deflate the self-regard of theater critics like comparing their
notices. Here’s what they said about the Aquila Theatre Company’s staging of “Agamemnon,”
which opened last night in New York.
Notice, please, that the issue is not who’s right or who’s wrong, so much as why are all of
them somehow ridiculous? Have a look at
News; Linda
Winer in Newsday; Ben Brantley in The New York Times; Donald Lyons in the New York Post; Michael Sommers in
Newark’s The Star-Ledger; Artsjournal.com’s own
yours truly below.