Melbourne Festival Diary: A Divagation on Criticism

Festival Diary #1 The Melbourne Festival officially opens tonight, but a couple of pre-opening events have already tempted Ms TN out of her ...

Shout out: 2012 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

Know someone who's made an outstanding contribution to the Australian performing arts? I thought so. You should be nominating them for t...

Poems for Pussy Riot

As we all know, three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were recently imprisoned after a farcical trial in which they wer...

Review: Top Girls

Okay, okay, I know I swore that I was writing no reviews for a month. But just this one, because it's important. I was completely unprep...

Acknowledging defeat

Dear everybody: as we all know, good intentions are the road to hell. And Ms TN is full of good intentions. I wrote them all out this mornin...

Malthouse 2013

'Tis the season for theatre launches, which gives Ms TN ample opportunity to exploit her genius for SNAFU. Recently my trigger finger ga...

What I'm doing right now

Regular readers will be chortling into their coffee to hear that Ms TN has been yet again ruefully contemplating her total inability to cont...