When I started writing this column in the 80s, many of my entertainment critic colleagues were using stars as a rating system for reviewing a theatrical performance.So, I followed suit. But since we’re a publication for the legal community, I appropriately used gavels instead of stars. It’s a practice I continued until the onset of COVID-19, when a large number of live productions began to shut down.Since that time, a number of critics have eliminated the star rating system. We wanted to let our column content …