The basic premise of my reviews is that all theatre – from burlesque, ballet, farce and musical comedy to high tragedy – has human significance. The job of the theatre critic is first of all to determine what the human significance of a particular play or performance is. In doing this he evaluates it. Every play or performance has a certain quality of “weight” of life in it. The critic must try to define its essence and place it in some personal or traditional scale of values which the reader in his turn is permitted to judge. - Harold Clurman