Overview
- Helen Shaw will join the Culture desk in mid-January as the paper’s chief theater critic.
- Theater editor Nicole Herrington will oversee Shaw, praising her incisive prose and range.
- Shaw previously served as a theater critic and staff writer at The New Yorker and as chief critic at New York Magazine, with additional bylines in Time Out New York, 4Columns, Artforum, and The Village Voice.
- The appointment follows Jesse Green’s reassignment earlier this year; he has been a culture correspondent since September and reviews had been handled by multiple writers.
- The role is widely viewed as influential for Broadway, and the Times has signaled expectations that the critic works across reviews, notebooks, alternate formats, podcasts, and on-camera criticism.