Michael Coveney
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Michael Coveney is a British theatre critic born in Mile End in East London in 1948. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, and Worcester College, Oxford.
After graduating, he worked as a script reader for the Royal Court Theatre and, from 1972, he contributed theatre reviews to the Financial Times. He was editor of Plays and Players magazine from 1975 to 1978 and theatre critic and deputy arts editor of the Financial Times throughout the 1980s. He was theatre critic for The Observer from 1990 until he joined the Daily Mail in 1997. He is Chief Critic of the leading theatre website Whatsonstage.com and a contributor to its sister publication Whatsonstage Magazine.
He is the author of The Citz, a history of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Nick Hern Books, 1990, and Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star, Gollancz, 1993.
His book The Aisle is Full of Noises, published by Nick Hern Books in 1994, a spirited diary of a year in the theatre, was withdrawn following complaints of potential libel from Milton Shulman; although, as reported in The Times of 21 September 1994, Coveney "thought the comments were in the spirit of the book. I rather regret that Milton, of whom I am actually rather fond, didn't take them in that spirit." Most copies of the book had been sold before the withdrawal.
He was a founding member and is an honorary president of the Goon Show Preservation Society.
