Australia’s best blog devoted to theatre criticism has frozen in time. There are fewer opportunities for thoughtful arts criticism, robbing culture of important conversations.
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ALISON CROGGON
Arts editor shits on theatre blogging, flame war ensues
The Global Mail opened its coverage of Australian arts on Monday with a curious piece from Stephen Crittenden about theatre blogging. Online writers haven’t stopped talking about it since.
READ MOREA long, long way to go: different tools for new wave of feminism
Leaders in this country are actively cultivating a climate in which women are bullied into disappearing — even further — from our culture’s public spaces. A new wave of feminism is needed, says Sophie Cunningham.
READ MORERundle: Williamson an island in his own write
David Williamson, again, really? How do we — by which I mean 19 people across the country, and all three million citizens of Melbourne — get so hung up on Australia’s most overstretched playwright?
READ MOREA popular festival? Egads!
Just before this debate gets a little out of hand; it is probably time for a little perspective. No, I am not talking about the theatrics going on at the cricket – I am talking about those select few who are calling Fergus Linehan’s programme for the Sydney Festival a ‘disappointment’, writes Nicholas Pickard.
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