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Noises off: Should theatres pay critics to come and review?

by Andrew Haydon

What price a bit of honest publicity? The rapidly changing face of theatre reviewing is grist to the bloggers' mill this weekWhat happens if you can't get a critic to see your show? Most theatres would probably shrug and move on. But the new Swiss website TheaterKritik.ch thinks it has a different answer. According to a news article at German theatre blog NachtKritik.de, the website plans to fund itself by having sma…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27am on September 28, 2011