So my production opened Thursday night and has enjoyed enormous popular success. I've had lifelong fans of Wodehouse tell me how apt and Wodehousey and funny it was, and people who'd never heard of him tell me that the show has made them want to read him (which pleaseth me greatly).

I've also had other directors (friends, not randoms) tell me that I might not need X setpiece, or maybe I could do Y with Z character, and so on. Whenever other people are around and hear that, they just shut the other person down and tell them off for being offensive or presumptuous or a spoilsport.

My question to you is how do you like it when you get feedback like that for your work? Do you enjoy getting "constructive criticism"?

And how do you take compliments? I, for instance, get bashful and English about it. I'd be interested to hear from you guys about it.