Breaking news: Beacon Journal theater critic breaks balls

By Pete Kotz on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:30 am

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The Bang and the Clatter Theater group has been getting reviews. But this week the Beacon Journal lit them up.

It’s been a while since The Akron Beacon Journal has had a reputation for thought provoking reviews of anything, let alone theater. Thanks to massive lay-offs, diminishing content, and a totally demoralized newsroom, we’ve come to expect little from the paper’s critics. It’s enough if they just get the name of the director and a principal character or two into the review. However, this week writer Elaine Guregian throws readers a curve-ball by actually expressing a strong opinion about a play that wasn’t written by Shakespeare...