Noises off
Matt Trueman rounds up all the latest from theatre blogs worldwide
Noises off: It's time to blog off
Matt Trueman: The burgeoning blogosphere has outgrown this theatre roundup, so after five years of trawling the net we bid you farewell
Noises off: Is comedy more true to life than tragedy?
Matt Trueman: A critic's claim that comedy is more believable than tragedy stirs strong feelings – and is British theatre too naturalistic?
Noises off: how do you define acting?
Matt Trueman: Boundaries between conventional acting, performance theatre and improvisation continue to blur – but one actor seems to have no problems making it up as they go along ...
Noises off: a 'bloody weird' fringe, and killing a sacred cow
Practitioners are praising this year's Edinburgh gathering as unusually well-organised, while bloggers rail against overly serious theatre
Noises off: The fringe finds its Banksy, and where all the money really goes
Matt Trueman: A guerrilla poster artist and a raft of bloggers are taking aim at the Edinburgh fringe's increasingly corporate outlook
Noises off: Is the Edinburgh fringe really too expensive for artists?
Matt Trueman: As one theatre company says it is using a Brighton Fringe production to fund its show in Scotland, an online debate is raging about payment for creativity
Noises off: The alternative torch relay, and reinventing the art of theatre
Matt Trueman: With Richard DeDomenici's one-hander having completed its run, bloggers turn to the future of collaborative theatre
Noises off: Is there any theatrical rev left in revivals?
Matt Trueman: Theatre bloggers weigh in on the advantages – and risks – of bringing back old hits
Noises off: do institutions kill art? And radical theatre lives!
This week the blogosphere asks whether creativity can survive in an institution and gets inspired by rural touring theatre, writes Matt Trueman
Noises off: Canadian playwrights and jukebox musicals
Matt Trueman: As Americans and Brits examine themselves for signs of drama xenophobia, the future of the musical is put under the spotlight
Noises off: Oi, sponsors, leave our stage alone
Today's funders ask: 'How can you help us to deliver our vision?' Someone ought to tell them: 'Surely it's the other way round'
Noises off: is criticism really changing?
Matt Trueman: With every demand for a 'new critical standard', another voice promotes reviewing values that haven't changed in 50 years
Noises off: reviving live performance, and shortening the Fringe
Matt Trueman: Bloggers debated this week whether the restaging of groundbreaking theatre events risked turning them into exhibits
Noises off: From Salesman to selling out
Matt Trueman: With Broadway prices for Death of a Salesman stratospheric, the impact of market forces on theatre is obsessing bloggers
Noises off: Outcry over Creative Scotland review
Theatre community lambasts Creative Scotland's latest funding review, as it sets out plans to make award-winning companies Vanishing Point and Grid Iron compete for sponsorship
Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently
Matt Trueman: Young directors are being packed off to Berlin on a crash course in dynamic theatre, and bloggers debate the ethics of an Anne Frank musical
Noises off: why there's no such thing as new writing – or an all-black play
Matt Trueman: Bloggers are smashing old orthodoxies this week, from ideas of what theatre should be to myths about race and acting
Noises off: Has the Royal Court theatre lost its edge?
Matt Trueman: A blogger accuses the theatre of pandering to rather than provoking the middle classes, while audience etiquette hits the headlines
Noises off: Should playwrights bow to directors' changes?
Matt Trueman: Arthur Miller stuck to his guns when asked to change the title of Death of a Salesman. Should modern writers do the same?
Noises off: Will social media change the face of theatre?
Matt Trueman: Bloggers battle over the best way to bring theatre to an internet audience – and how to create 'liveness' online
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