[This] proposal . . . is an excellent one. As far as I know, no other volume of essays exists that takes up the current state of the field and considers how it got that way. It aims to consider important questions about the function of criticism at the present time, and - most important - to do so within wider contexts of the seismically shifting media landscape, rise of "amateur" criticism, changes in critical discourse, status of the academy and of the professional theater. I believe that the book would find an eager market in college and university courses about criticism, dramaturgy, and contemporary theater more generally . . . The proposed book's international perspective is not only appropriate, but important. All this leads me to the strong opinion that this is a book well worth publishing: it fills an important gap in the field and its editor brings both scope and depth the project.

Professor Alisa Solomon, Columbia University

There is a large hole in the existing English-language literature about the role and location of theatre criticism in both theatre production systems, and in the academic study of theatre. As such, books such as that proposed by Dr. Radosavljevic are very welcome, and this project seems like an important and timely one . . . More books on the subject are really necessary. There is so much going on amongst the theatre critical community in Britain at the moment about the changing nature of the field. [The editor] is taking on a challenging but important task in trying to step back from a fast-moving debate and get a scholarly purchase on it.

Dr Karen Fricker, Brock University