Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.

