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Lyn Gardner fully expects to be replaced by Katie Price
1st March 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The national newspapers' habit of replacing their retired head theatre critics with columnists and political sketchwriters is pretty worrying for those of us on the bottom rungs of the theatre criticism career ladder, as I pointed out in January, when The Times announced Libby Purves would be replacing Benedict Nightingale in their top spot.
Well, it turns out up-and-comers like me aren't the only ones concerned by the trend: some of... -
Bush Theatre re-opens to unsolicited script submissions
7th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The moment the Bush Theatre axed its script reading team, citing a lack of funds, was the moment the recession became real for me. Beforehand I'd been taking my usual naïve/optimistic view of the situation, confident that it couldn't be as bad as the media made it out to be, and that it would soon blow over with no major consequences. The discontinuation of script reading at one of London's...
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Arts futurism – theatre in the newsfeeds of the future
4th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Arts Futurism is an occasional strand in which I discuss, based on current developments, what might be next for the arts.
So let's assume for the moment that print newspapers are, indeed, nearing the end point of a lengthy and unintended suicide at the hands of their own free online content distribution systems. Let's briefly put aside the alternative theories and concentrate on the one where the presses are silenced and...
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