Mr. Teachout, the Journal's drama critic, blogs about theater and the other arts at www.terryteachout.com.

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He made this magazine the drama critic of business, routinely praising or panning corporate management.

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Jim saw FORBES as the "drama critic" of business, pointing out who was doing well, who wasn't and why.

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Every congressional hearing has an element of theater, so NPR's Guy Raz covered this event by serving as a drama critic.

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When Mr. Tynan was good, he was better than any other drama critic of his generation, and that is why his reviews are still readable.

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So when Mr Alvarez writes in his biography about his awful time as the drama critic of the New Statesman, there is bound to be sympathy from his circle.

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Philosophy and politics took up much of Hazlitt's mental landscape, but his love of the theatre, expressed in his work as a drama critic, is where he is at his most appealing.

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