Maybe I just like negative reviews better…

Theatre is hard to do well. So is writing about it. Robert Hurwitt does a good job in a nice little review of Othello at the San Francisco Chronicle. It isn’t perfect and it isn’t a great read but tells me everything I need to know about the play and the interpretation. And it incorporates a simple synopsis into the body of the review instead of as an extraneous paragraph, a trick that many better writers have not even attempted. So thank you Mr. Hurwitt for redeeming my faith in reviewers.