By Bill Hirschman, FloridaTheaterOnStage.com, for SouthFloridaReporter.com, Dec. 10, 2015 – If you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren’t wrong.
Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journalist for The Miami Herald, formally announced Wednesday that she is retiring from the newspaper on Dec. 18.
Dolen began writing about the arts for the Detroit Free Press 42 years ago (including reputedly as a rock music journalist), but spent the last 40 years covering South Florida’s burgeoning arts scene – most of it concentrated on theater.
In literally thousands of reviews, in-depth features, incisive profiles and think pieces in print, national magazines and online, she charted the evolution of local theater from community productions and dinner shows straight through to the present state of local cutting-edge theater that spreads out across the country and even overseas.
