If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.
Frank RichHollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
Frank RichThe truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.
Frank Rich