The Golden Age of Theater Criticism: TOPIC: Harold Hobson & Kenneth Tynan (Part Two) GUESTS: Patrick Kelly & Jerome Weeks

"One of the big theater jokes used to be that when you opened the Sunday Times and the Observer, you used to read Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson and they were always totally diametrically opposed. Tynan would say that this is the greatest show on earth. Hobson would hate it. If you had a play on and you opened it and Tynan gave you a good review, you knew that Harold was going to loathe it."Alan AycbournPatrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at the University of Dallas where, with Judy Kelly his wife, they taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he has directed plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theater programs as University ofWashington, Denver’s National Theater Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and Southern Methodist University Jerome Weeks for 15 years was the producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the The Dallas Morning News theater critic for ten years and  the book columnist for ten years after that. Hiswriting has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and American Theatre  magazine.