WIain Armitage is an American child actor and theater critic. He is best known for his starring roles as Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, prequel to the The Big Bang Theory, and Ziggy Chapman in Big Little Lies. In 2018, he received the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actor for his role as Sheldon Cooper. He also voiced young Shaggy Rogers in Scoob! (2020).
WJustin Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time." Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960.
WIrv Bauer also known as Irvin S. Bauer was an American playwright, screenwriter, educator and theatre critic based in New York. He was most known for his plays A Dream Out of Time, A Fine and Private Place and Bulldog and The Bear. He also wrote multiple episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
WHerbert Blau was an American director and theoretician of performance. He was named the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington.
WGerald Martin Bordman was an American theatre historian, best known for authoring the reference volume The American Musical Theatre, first published in 1978. In reviewing an updated version of American Musical Theatre in 2011, Playbill wrote that the book had "altered the scope of American musical theatre history" and "remained the only book of its kind, and an invaluable one."
WThomas Allston Brown was an American theater critic, newspaper editor, talent agent and manager, and theater historian, best known for his books, History of the American Stage and A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901.
WRobert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a creative consultant, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic. He comments on politics for the Huffington Post.
WNathaniel C. "Nat" Burbank was an American humorist, drama critic, and newspaper editor who for over 20 years was managing editor of the New Orleans Picayune.
WVincent Canby was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there.
WJoseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke was an Irish American newspaperman, poet, playwright, writer, and Irish nationalist.
WJohn Corbin was an American dramatic critic and author.
WJohn Augustin Daly was one of the most influential men in American theatre during his lifetime. Drama critic, theatre manager, playwright, and adapter, he became the first recognized stage director in America. He exercised a fierce and tyrannical control over all aspects of his productions. His rules of conduct for actors and actresses imposed heavy fines for late appearances and forgotten lines and earned him the title "the autocrat of the stage." He formed a permanent company in New York and opened Daly's Theatre in New York in 1879 and a second one in London in 1893.
WCharles Bancroft Dillingham was an American theatre manager and producer of over 200 Broadway shows.
WPeter Filichia is the former New York-based theater critic for The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, New Jersey and New Jersey's television station News 12.
WMark John Hellinger was an American journalist, theatre columnist and film producer.
WMargo Lillian Jefferson is an American writer and academic.
WGeorge Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical Of Thee I Sing in 1932, and won again in 1937 for the play You Can't Take It with You. He also won the Tony Award for Best Director in 1951 for the musical Guys and Dolls.
WChristopher Kelly is an American writer, who won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 20th Lambda Literary Awards in 2008 for his debut novel A Push and a Shove.
WWalter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theatre critic. He also was the writer, lyricist, and/or director of several Broadway plays and musicals as well as the author of several books, generally on the subject of theater and cinema.
WLouis Kronenberger was an American literary critic (longest with Time,, novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.
WJoseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest and developing a pantheistic philosophy.
WKenneth Macgowan was an American film producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Color Short Film for La Cucaracha (1934), the first live-action short film made in the three-color Technicolor process.
WRobert Burns Mantle was an American theatre critic. He founded the Best Plays annual publication in 1920.
WLouise Markscheffel (1857–1911) was an American literary and society editor, as well as dramatic, musical and literary critic.
WDavi Napoleon, also known as Davida Skurnick and Davida Napoleon, is an American theater historian and critic. She is a regular contributor to Live Design, a monthly magazine about entertainment design and designers. She is an expert on the not-for-profit theater in America and author of Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater. She has written on social and political issues occasionally as well. She has taught at Albion College and at Eastern Michigan University. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI, and is married to Greg Napoleon, a software engineer. They have two sons, Brian Napoleon and Randy Napoleon, who is a noted jazz musician, and two grandchildren.
WGeorge Jean Nathan was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator.
WLarry Neal or Lawrence Neal was a scholar of African-American theatre. He is well known for his contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a major influence in pushing for black culture to focus less on integration with White culture, to that of celebrating their differences within an equally important and meaningful artistic and political field, thus celebrating Black Heritage.
WFrank Hart Rich Jr. is an American essayist and liberal op-ed columnist, who held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. He has also produced television series and documentaries for HBO.
WJames Willis Sayre was an American theatre critic, journalist, arts promoter, and historian. A longtime resident of Seattle, Washington, Sayre was an influential figure in writing and conserving the history of theatre in the city.
WGilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958). He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. He was most interested in American popular culture and cultural history. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s. Later, he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for CBS News and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
WLarry Stark is an American journalist and reviewer best known for his in-depth coverage of the Boston theater scene at his website, Theater Mirror. In newspapers and online, Stark has written hundreds of reviews of local productions and Broadway tryouts from 1962 to the present. His Boston readers have given him such labels as "head theater angel of Massachusetts" and "Dean of the alternative theater critics."
WAshton P. Stevens was an American journalist regarded as the dean of American drama critics. His newspaper column appeared in The San Francisco Examiner and later in the Chicago Herald-American. He was a theater critic for the Hearst Newspapers for 50 years, 40 of them in Chicago.
WHyman Howard Taubman was an American music critic, theater critic, and author.
WTerry Teachout is an American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist. He is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the critic-at-large of Commentary, and the author of "Sightings," a column about the arts in America that is published biweekly in The Wall Street Journal. He weblogs at About Last Night and has written about the arts for many other magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times and National Review. He is a regular panelist on Three on the Aisle, a monthly podcast about theater in America that is hosted by American Theatre magazine.
WAndrew Carpenter Wheeler, best known by the pen name Nym Crinkle, was a 19th-century American newspaper writer, author, and drama critic. He was one of the most prolific critics of his day, known for his pungent and fierce criticism.
WPaul Wontorek is an American theater personality, journalist, host and editor-in-chief at Broadway.com.
WAlexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.