Henry Hewes (April 9, 1917 – July 18, 2006) was an American theater writer who worked as the drama critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979.
Encouraged by the critic Brooks Atkinson, he began writing arts profiles for the Times' Sunday Magazine.
[2] From the Times, he went to the Saturday Review, a weekly magazine, where he worked as secondary drama critic to John Mason Brown.
In addition to his drama criticism, Hewes edited the annual Best Plays anthology from 1960 to 1964, bringing greater attention to new works and playwrights.
In 1972, he directed Bernie Kahn's Our Very Own Hole in the Ground at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village, Manhattan.