Theater critic Alex Sierz characterized the genre as taking the audience "by the scruff of the neck," adding that "questioning moral norms, it affronts the ruling ideas of what can or can't be shown onstage".
Yet it has largely gone unremarked upon that the Kabuki Theater that has characterized Washington deficit reduction negotiations from the Simpson-Bowles plan and the debt ceiling debate to the super committee and beyond has been a male-dominated process that reflects male priorities.
The filmmaker Stephen Frears and the New Yorker theater critic John Lahr have characterized Reisz and Blair as close, creative parent figures to them.
(Some of the early two- and one-star reviews take issue with a prior Guggenheim exhibition called "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World," characterized by activists as an instance of "unmistakable cruelty against animals in the name of art". The specific artworks that sparked controversy were removed by the museum last year).
Some have been quick to link the incident to the byzantine politics and history of infighting that has long characterized the Bolshoi theater.
Using a taxometric analysis, Waelde and colleagues (2005) found evidence of a dissociative subtype of PTSD among Vietnam theater era veterans that was characterized by a higher prevalence of symptoms of dissociation, PTSD, and dysthymia [ 31].
In a lecture in 1991 during a Weimar festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville, Ky., he vividly characterized the nature of the time as marked by "stress and passion".
Security expert Bruce Schneier characterized the plan as "security theater against a movie plot threat" and does not believe random bag searches actually improve security.
Critics have characterized the anticorruption operation as mere theater by overzealous law enforcement officials aimed at appeasing a public so fed up with graft that people often refer to Marianske Square, home to Prague's ornate City Hall, as Mafianske Square.
The university is being sued, as is the theater chain, for alleged negligence concerning what has been characterized as foreseeable dangers to the public.
