When A Director Goes Off The Rails

John Moore writes that he knows the relationship between critics and the community in which they write can be complicated. But a confrontation between Cleveland Plain Dealer theatre critic Tony Brown and the head of the city’s biggest theatre was “just absurd. How can the head of a regional theater company lead his institution to great standing when he is behaving like a child? Bloom has lost credibility with his staff and subscribers and brought embarrassment to his theater.”