How to Write About Theatre, a manual for critics, students and bloggers, by Guardian critic @MarkFFisher is published by Methuen Drama (Aug 2015)
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just scanned a blogger who calls just about every West End show "the show of the year" — their High Society review reads about 70% AI 🙃
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Mark Brown in the Sunday National on this week’s ruling that some Scottish-based critics should not review the biggest Lyceum show of the season, One Day. 15 of us - theatre writers in Scotland - have now written an open letter of protest to the Lyceum board - see below.
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The Guardian on our open letter from Scottish theatre writers resisting the idea that the Lyceum's biggest show of the season should be regarded, for reviewing purposes, as a tryout for a later London run. 15 of us felt that we had to put down a marker! theguardian.com/stage/2026/m…
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Critics have written to the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh to raise a “number of uncomfortable questions” about a decision to prevent national reviews of new musical One Day.
Read more 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/national…
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A production company has been blasted for creating a 'two-tier' review system, which allegedly implies that both critics and audiences in Scotland are 'less important' than their London counterparts thenational.scot/news/259373…
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Wrote about the crisis in theatre criticism (as all critics must at least once) but like in a unique and quirky meta-critical way x
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Farewell to theatre critic Bill Haggerty, a major Fleet Street journalist and Editor who turned his hand to theatre criticism later in his career with 17 years as West End critic at The Sun and later his local Hammersmith Today website. He was a lovely man and a great colleague KWPR was always happy to welcome to a press night. RIP Bill.
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Join Guardian theatre critic @MarkFFisher for an online theatre criticism workshop this Sunday morning howtowriteabouttheatre.com/p…
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📣 An international conversation around the future for theatre criticism 🎭
Introducing Mission Critical, a one-day symposium that will invite critics, artists, audiences and readers to have conversations around the future of theatre criticism.
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Sharpen up your criticism skills. Join Guardian critic @markffisher for a two-hour online How to Write about Theatre workshop on Sat 4 Oct howtowriteabouttheatre.com/p…
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cc this banger in @intermissionmag: intermissionmagazine.ca/arti…
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All theatre is excellent. Nothing must ever be criticised. Everything is the best show ever. Anything less than a four star review is an insult to all the cast members I want to be friends with. Theatre criticism is just personal opinions, not valid evaluation.
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My two books, The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide and @WriteAboutTheat are among the pirated books being used to train Meta's large language models without permission. I’m asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April
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did two of these during the pandemic and really enjoyed them!
Online theatre criticism workshop with Guardian critic Mark Fisher – Saturday 5 October. "Funny, warm and insightful" @josesolismayen Book now: howtowriteabouttheatre.com/p…
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The more things change... The "media" outlets are counting on applicants to value the outlet's guarantee of comp tickets (a cost borne by the theatre artists) and the increased visibility of a platform, to offset the paltry honourarium.
"Exploitative" job offers for reviewers independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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“Good critics don’t just amplify what’s happening in arts scenes,” says @carlzoilus. “They reflect cultural works and trends back in historical and aesthetic context, illuminate connections between art and the rest of life, and push forward conversations” thelocal.to/arts-criticism-t…
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I'm cool with the idea that critics are good for nothing except for one teenzy weenzy point...
Practically everyone with a show to sell comes to us cap in hand asking for a review. I turn down way more spec gig requests than I can accommodate. Editors even more so, of course.
Critics, huh? Yeah? What are they good for? Absolutely nothing?, by @FergusMorgan open.substack.com/pub/thecru…
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"The disappearance of theatre criticism makes for an uphill battle for theatre marketers" ... In my experience (having recently attended a production that had poor notices but good houses), audiences respond to strong work, irrespective of reviews. Without critics, record is lost
With significant discussion online today over the role and perspective of theatre critics, this report from Canada is particularly sobering. thestar.com/entertainment/st…
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Without marketing there is virtually no way a theatre production gets people into seats. So, I get it but... I am weary of the art community hedging their bets on #AI & hoping they end up on the right side of history. It just seems like a horse race now & nothing more.
Some Toronto theatres have been duped by AI-generated reviews. What role will they play in arts marketing moving forward? thestar.com/entertainment/st… via @torontostar
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For @TorontoStar: some of the city’s biggest theatres have been caught using AI in recent marketing. The implications of that are…unsettling. thestar.com/entertainment/st…
