For NPR’s All Things Considered, Brooklyn-based freelance arts reporter Jeff Lunden this week filed a report about the state of all things Broadway. A realm where only one in four productions succeed.
Among those Lunden spoke to: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard, who has been covering Broadway for three decades. Gerard says reviews have become somewhat secondary:
“Unless you come out of the theater saying ‘I have to tell everybody I know they must see this show,’ the show is going to die,” Gerard says.
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