The other day I hosted this year's Critics' Circle Awards, an event at which actors and artists meet the critics who nightly judge their work. Of course, we've come to praise them on this occasion, so it's an afternoon where we treat each other with kid gloves; but there's an underlying tension, of course. "So those are the bastards who write those things about us!", you can feel some muttering. And one even said it …
SOURCE: The Stage at 01:58AM on January 26, 2012