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Michael Keith Billington OBE (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic. He writes for The Guardian , and was the paper's chief drama critic from 1971 to 2019. [2] Billington is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts.
Dec 11, 2011 · As Guardian critic Michael Billington celebrates 40 years of reviewing, stars of the stage – from Lucy Prebble to Peter Hall – pay tribute. Sun 11 Dec 2011 16.29 EST. M ichael Billington ...
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Feb 14, 2020 · Honouring his nearly 50 years as the Guardian newspaper’s chief theatre critic, a role he stepped down from at the end of last year, the Critics’ Circle renamed the Best New Play Award in honour of former chair Michael Billington. And at this year’s ceremony, he was presented with a theatre poster of five-star “reviews” about his long-running success, written by fellow critics about ...
Dec 8, 2021 · When Michael Billington stepped down as lead theatre critic for the Guardian in 2019, after almost fifty years, it was seen as the end of an era. While no-one doubted his remarkable wealth of knowledge, in recent years his reviews did prompt some eye-rolling, for reading like he’d seen it all before.
Feb 25, 2020 · Oscar Wilde in 1890 wrote a brilliantly witty dialogue, The Critic As Artist, in which he claimed that “criticism is a creation within a creation” and “a record of one’s own soul”. AB Walkley, then the drama critic of The Times , expanded on the theme in a lecture in 1903 where he argued that “criticism is literature, an art intended to interest, to give pleasure in itself ”.
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Now, at the age of 80, and after 48 years as lead drama critic on the Guardian, Michael Billington is stepping off the critical merry-go-round. He began his life as a critic while a student at Oxford University. After graduating in 1961, he wrote reviews for the Liverpool Echo before a stint working at the Lincoln Theatre Company.
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