Helen Shaw Leaving Vulture/New York to Join The New Yorker

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 5:32pm

Theatre Critic Helen Shaw to Depart Vulture, and Joins The New Yorker Next Month (broadwayworld.com)

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 6:00pm

Oh, no. I was worried when someone else reviewed Into the Woods.

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 6:24pm

i quit New York/Vulture years ago, thrilled that I will be able to access her regularly from now on. Shaw is for my money the most insightful critic there is right now, even if I disagree with her sometimes. Great news.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 6:38pm

She's one of the best, and likely the best, theatre critics writing today. I'm glad for her if it's a good move career wise, but I'll miss her work if it's inaccessible since The New Yorker's articles are so often hidden behind a paywall for me.

[JasonC3]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 7:01pm

In my experience, one can access a limited number of New Yorker articles before hitting a paywall threshold and there are ways to get around that once it occurs.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 7:07pm

Hopefully her replacement will be somewhat more competent. 

[Kad]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 7:10pm

JSquared2 said: "Hopefully her replacement will be somewhat more competent."

Oh wow, JSquared2 with a needlessly bitchy comment. What a shock, the one-trick pony did its trick.

Shaw is wonderful- and I'm glad she will be continuing on to the New Yorker.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 8:16pm

I love reading her articles, what a shame. 

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 9:02pm

The best theatre critic I’ve ever read. Love her work every time. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 7/14/22 at 10:47pm

While I’m sad to see her go, as I still subscribe to NY Mag, they always hire pretty great critics, even if for a short time. Sara Holdren was also my favorite critic working when she was at Vulture.

[raddersons]

Posted: 7/15/22 at 12:33am

Such a short lived tenure at Vulture! I adore Helen’s reviews. Sad to see her go but glad to see her moving up. 

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 7/15/22 at 8:24am

New York Mag hardly mentions theater anymore.  The last two issues we got (we just canceled after 20+ years) had zero theater recommendations in their "25 things to check out" column.

 

We found all sorts of great Off Broadway treasures back in the day thanks to NY Mag.  I wish there was still something like that out there.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 7/15/22 at 10:40am

Wee Thomas2 said: "New York Mag hardly mentions theater anymore. The last two issues we got (we just canceled after 20+ years) had zero theater recommendations in their "25 things to check out" column."

Jackson McHenry and others regularly write about theatre in Vulture, too, and wrote one of the major Rudin followup stories. Theatre is also regularly part of the Approval Matrix. But if you are mostly focusing on print, then that's a "you" problem and not a "them" problem.

Helen is a great critic who will be an asset to the New Yorker/Conde Nast.