Crikey’s tipster who last week expressed dismay at the lack of women programmed in Sydney’s Company B theatre season for 2010 was certainly not alone.
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It’s the worst-kept secret of the 2010 theatre season: Joanna Murray-Smith will finally get a show on at the Sydney Theatre Company after years in the wilderness.
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Why Cate Blanchett makes perfect sense
Is it because Cate Blanchett is a well dressed female actress that news outlets and commentators feel the need to assume that she is not an intelligent and shrewd advocate for the arts? wonders Nicholas Pickard.
Profile of the playwright as vapid hack
In filling a profile of leading playwright Joanna Murray Smith with all manner of poison,critic Alison Croggon crossed an unfortunate line, writes Peter Craven.
Rudd government is bad for the arts
By eliminating the Australia on the World Stage program, the Federal Labor Government is ignoring key recommendations from many of their traditionally loyal constituents, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Luvvies at 10 paces: high drama in Sydney theatreland
A major rift is opening up between the country’s flagship theatre company, the Sydney Theatre Company and the broadsheet newspaper regularly condemned for blindly supporting it, the Sydney Morning Herald. Nicholas Pickard reports.
