Bread and circuses

Melbourne's Commonwealth Games party is over, but it seems that the $13 million cultural component - a huge program of free events which...

A musical interlude

Surely it's the first time a theatre stoush has inspired a song - in any case, British singer Billy Bragg has written a song protesting ...

The ideology of theatre

Playwright and critic Walter A. Davis has a brilliant and thought-provoking essay just up at MCW News which takes apart the tired old left/r...

East

East: Elegy for the East End and its Energetic Waste by Steven Berkoff, directed by John Bolton, lighting by Toby Bolton. With Andre Jewson...

Nomadic posting

Poet and translator Pierre Joris today posts an illuminating comment on his Nomadics blog that illustrates some of the ugliness of debate ar...

The Nero Conspiracy

The Nero Conspiracy by Enzo Condello, directed by Beng Oh. Designed by Kat Chishkovsky, lighting by Nick Merrylees, sound by Robert Harewood...

Round the blogs

In the beginning was the Word. Give something a name and lo! it exists... The theatrical blogosphere is alive with discussion of something t...

Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk - one of the few journalists whom I wholeheartedly respect - weighs in on the Rachel Corrie issue in The Independent, with an a...

Housekeeping

The blog has been getting a little messy lately, and it's hard to find and access old reviews, so Theatre Notes got out the broom today ...

Notes from elsewhere

The peripatetic Chris Boyd is posting some lively reviews of the Adelaide festival over at The Morning After, with mucho lush pictures. Wi...

Endpapers

Jasmine Chan, playwright and travel blogger extraordinaire, has begun a review blog, Endpapers Performance Review, which is well worth check...

The Royal Court bristles

And with good reason, if this press release posted in full by Playgoer is indeed their side of the increasingly intriguing New York Theatre ...

Ray's Tempest

Ray's Tempest by Steve Rodgers, based on an original script and idea by Justin Monjo and Richard Roxburgh. Directed by Bruce Myles, desi...

Reading for Peace, La Mama

UPDATE: Eliot Weinberger very kindly corrects me: there is another reading being organised in Sydney, hosted by the Sydney Moving Image Coal...

The controversy spreads...

The New York Times has at last broken its silence on the controversy over the New York Theatre Workshop's cancellation of the Royal Cour...

Masthead

A brief announcement that Issue 10 of Masthead, my annual ezine, is now unleashed upon a breathless world. Poetry, prose, texts for theatre,...

More on Rachel Corrie

The debate continues unabated in the blogosphere, accompanied by a strange silence elsewhere...Garrett Eisler at the indispensible Playgoer ...

Silencing Rachel Corrie

Update: James Nicola, stung by criticisms of censorship, has issued yet another statement. Playgoer and Superfluities are giving his third d...