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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 · M ichael Billington became the Guardian's drama critic a year after I became arts editor in 1970. He was fresh from a stint on the Times, and came wreathed in recommendations, and with a...
He became film critic for the Birmingham Post and the Illustrated London News in 1968. He has been the drama critic of The Guardian newspaper since 1971, is drama critic for Country Life magazine and has written frequently for the New York Times.
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.
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Feb 25, 2020 · The veteran theatre critic explains what he has learned about the role in almost 50 years at The Guardian. Getting a job as a critic is difficult. Giving one up – not that I’ve quite done that – requires a certain mutual understanding. I count myself lucky in both respects.
May 3, 2015 · As The Guardian’s first-string theatre critic, a post he’s held since 1971, Michael Billington is still squeezing himself into pub theatres, travelling the old regional reps and sitting in the ...
