Review: Dying City, Do Not Go Gentle...

Christopher Shinn is rightly lauded as one of the most powerful and accomplished playwrights now working in the US. Like his compatriot Will...

A matter of art: Henson and Mills

In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the...

Tracy Letts

My interview with Tracy Letts, author of August: Osage County, is in today's Australian.

Review: Measure for Measure, Human Interest Story

With All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida and, sometimes, Hamlet, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is most often charact...

Stuff online

Recently I guest-edited the poetry for Cordite's Creative Commons issue. Today it goes live online, and it's well worth a browse. Mo...

Greetings, Earthlings!

Your long-lost blogger is circling back to the planet after a hiatus that was rather longer than planned. As you know, we moved house, which...

Review: Dead Man's Cell Phone

An overdose of whimsy can bring out the worst in a girl. Take the obsidian Dorothy Parker, celebrated critic of the Algonquin Round Table se...