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Theater Publicist vs. Newspaper Editor

submitted by Max Sparber

Feb 5 2009 — 1:35pm

Melodie Bahan, Director of Communications at the Guthrie Theater, recently wrote a piece for Minnesota Playlist, responding to a widely shared sense (within the theater community, at least) that a lot of theater criticsm is slapped together, perfunctory affairs that serve neither the theater community nor the readership, and suggested, if the critics can’t do criticism well, they should try doing theater journalism instead, which this town badly lacks. Brauer wrote about it, calling Bahan the “gutsiest PR person in town.” He was then contacted by Claude Peck, one of the authors of Withering Glance and the Strib’s arts editor, who offered a response that was, perhaps unsurpisingly, spectacularly bitchy.

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