Theatre


Creative roles for women hard to find in Australian theatre

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.

Talk of the foyer: snubbed playwright invited in from cold

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.

Guy Rundle: The play’s the thing missing from the PEN anthology

The great, the good and my good friend Peter Craven have already weighed in on the issue of “progressive inclusion” of indigenous writing in the new Macquarie Australian lit anthology. But the omission of drama is the real scandal.