I was the staff film and theatre critic for Willamette Week, in Portland, Ore., early on and a bit later at The Prague Post, in the Czech capital.

I managed freelancers and worked closely with the copyediting and design teams at both newspapers. I also compiled and edited comprehensive performance and showtimes listings and wrote capsule and feature reviews, festival previews and performer profiles and interviews.

I reviewed plays in Portland (mostly poor). In Prague, I covered theatre regionally and nationally. I covered the largest open-air Shakespeare festival in Europe and one of the most vibrant fringe festivals outside Edinburgh.