SeanD2 said: "AC126748 said: "I'm not saying Kumar deserved to be fired. The layoffs are terrible. But it always struck me as odd that the Post hired a critic who lives in New York and writes primarily about Broadway theater, given that DC has such a vibrant resident theater scene of its own. Looking at Kumar's bylines in the three months leading up to his layoff, I see only two DC reviews: GUYS AND DOLLS at Shakespeare Theatre and IN CLAY at Signature (Virginia). Meanwhile, nearly every Broadway opening is covered. Perhaps his lack of connection to the District made him an easy target for a layoff."
I mean Peter Marks always lived in NYC when he was the critic for the Post. But Peter did come down to see a lot (and we often found ourselves at the same performance)"
Not entirely true. Marks lived in Bethesda for the first decade he worked for the Post, before moving back to New York. And even after he moved back, he still covered Washington theater fairly extensively. He got his fair share of criticism for being NYC-centric, but he made an effort greater than Kumar, who made it clear from the jump that he would be a New York critic writing for a DC paper.
But as others have said, although this is relevant to our little patch on this website, it's only one small strand of a much larger story.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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