The guy who lost his job at Variety has fans and he's a tremendous writer: he'll be fine. He may not work for another paper, but his voice will be heard. Because it's a great voice. It's just getting harder and harder to be mediocre .... Even though the arts are a major part of our culture we simply don't have that level of conversation in the mainstream press. The Sydney Morning Herald long since abandoned their theatre blog, and (for example) in the last seven days has ...

No one would deny that theatre and painting, for example, are two distinct art forms, or video and opera, but to suggest that these pairings cannot complement. ... It's a fine line between what is iconic and what is iconoclastic, indeed a matter almost entirely of opinion; Goold's response: "Why spend time tinkering about with a work of genius? Because it is a work of genius". She's Not There by Patrick Garety, featuring the art of Tom de Freston opens Tuesday 9th March ...

Lyn Gardner: It's a big week for Romeo and Juliet, while the National Review of Live Art celebrates its 30th anniversary. ... Peter and Vandy at Theatre 503 is a charming love story with a non-linear narrative. Eurydice continues at the Drum in Plymouth before moving to the Traverse in Edinburgh, and there's a fine revival of My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Citizens in Glasgow – just as the story of the US teenager killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza is back in the ...

There's a fine line in the alchemy of running a provincial theatre between it being wonderfully exhilarating to utterly heartbreaking, and modern demands for high quality facilities, product and diverse audiences make the extremes even ...