Some bigshot Los Angeles PR flack who represents this Orange County-based producing entity (which does mount impressive musicals) last year recommended to his clients they no longer invite (i.e., give free tickets to) reviewers from Stage and Cinema, one of the most widely read theater-related websites in Southern California. The reason? Wadded-up panties based on the site's “negative” reviews of 3-D Theatricals productions. Anyone who knows the website's creator, Tony Frankel, or has ever contributed to it knows how hard this guy works, how his only concern is holding theaters to a higher standard, and how he cares less about bruising people's feelings than he does about writing and pushing his contributors (none of whom receive a dime) to write honest reviews. Theater producers, as well as the bigshot Hollywood hacks who represent them, can do whatever the fuck they want when it comes to reviewers: ban them, shit on them, ignore them. But that doesn't mean we can't call them big dicks for doing so and choose to not review shows at spaces that can't take honest criticism—talented big dicks, but still big dicks.
