Emil D. Fagure (born Samuel Honigman; April 7, 1873 – March 16, 1948) was a Romanian prose writer, translator, journalist and theatre and music critic.
At Paris between 1918 and 1919, contributing to several French periodicals, he formed part of the editing committee for La Roumanie weekly, advocating for closer ties between France and Romania.
Launching a four-decade run as a critic, he announced himself as "a free spirit, ready to applaud art", and was driven by a passion for the stage made apparent through his involvement in the theatre.
He advocated for balancing between the need to improve spectators' minds and that of attracting them, which in practice meant alternating between serious, intrinsically valuable plays and lighthearted, entertaining fare.
He had an ample theoretical knowledge of the theatre, writing about the directions taken by the European stage and attempting to integrate the plays he reviewed into their aesthetic or ideological current.
He proceeded to a scene-by-scene analysis of the action, digressing into considerations of human existence and social and family relations, revealing meanings, nuances and psychological subtleties.
These included light French shows, vaudeville acts that would receive resonant titles such as Vasilache Astronomu, Madame Ordonanță, Mitică Ghinion, Lilica Ponpon, Nunta lui Țopârdea, Divorțul din Puțul cu Plopi and Mache Somnambulul and which were staged during the 1900s.
Others were merely performed: Maria Magdalena by Hebbel, L'Enfant du miracle by Paul Gavault and Robert Charvay, Jack Straw by W. Somerset Maugham, the libretto of Franz Lehár's Eva, and works by Alfred Capus and Bernhard Buchbinder.