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...

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...

I see that Dr Peter West, retired university lecturer and social commentator, is in today's Age fulminating on the bad manners of Young...

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

In his stories and plays, Anton Chekhov is a pitilessly intelligent observer of human beings. A writer of enormous moral scrupulousness, he ...

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...

The debate around Queen Lear has been going on, and on. It's not only in the monster thread under my review , which broke even the reco...

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

Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton, directed by Simon Phillips. Designed by Shaun Gurton, lighting design by Matt Scott, music by David Ch...

J.T. Rogers's play Madagascar made me think of American MFA programs. When I looked him up, it was no surprise to discover that he grad...