Dear Readers As some of you will already know, I've decided to close down Theatre Notes. It's a decision that's been staring m...

For the first thirty seconds I thought we were in for something special in Queen Lear . Robyn Nevin in the titular role, regally costumed in...

No one is more surprised than I am. As of now, Ms TN is moonlighting as the Australian's Melbourne theatre reviewer, standing in for th...

Baal, pagan Lord of Heaven, god of rain and fertility. Baal, the first king of the Christian Hell, best known to us as Beelzebub. Milton...

Because Richard Bean's play The Heretic is about climate change, it attracted the notice of hardline climate change denier Andrew Bolt ...

To my distress and dudgeon, I did Matt's Which Book Are You? quiz and found out that I am J. Alfred Prufrock . I guess it could be wors...

Update: Jana Perkovic weighs in at Guerilla Semiotics . Well worth the read. Update 2: The Guardian 's Noises Off rounds up the brouha...

I know it's been quiet on the blog the past couple of days. However, it has not been quiet at home: I've been putting together an Op...

Every time David Williamson writes a new play, the Australian theatre world launches into one of its favourite games. It goes like this. The...

Update: George Hunka on British playwrights , responding to David Cote's Time Out blog , is a must-read. And see Andrew Haydon in the G...