Monday morning rantaround

The Public Intellectual (PI, for the acronymic among you) debate continues with a Guardian blog post by Andrew Haydon, in which he robustly ...

MTC Theatre

My feature on the impact of the MTC's new Southbank theatre is in today's Australian.

Review: Oedipus - A Poetic Requiem

The unspeakable is spoken.Howard Barker, Theatre Without a ConscienceThe naming of the intolerable is itself the hope.John Berger, And Our F...

Vale Hilary Crampton

Sad news this morning on Chloe Smethurst's blog: dance critic Hilary Crampton died on the weekend. Crampton was a passionate educator an...

Seen last week: and The Question of The Intellectual

Last week's shenanigans, in brief: Tex Perkins in The Man in Black: The Johnny Cash Story at the Athenaeum (Australian review in Friday...

Criticism in the age of PR spin

Stephanie Bunbury today reports on the film industry's hard ball tactics with critics and journalists in today's Age, remarking that...

Review: The Lower Depths, The Colours, En Trance

Yes, Ms TN has been whinging heroically this past fortnight, but that hasn't stopped her getting out to the theatre. Writing about it ha...