The Critics’ Circle Centenary Conference: The Future of Criticism

THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE CENTENARY CONFERENCE: 100 YEARS OF CRITICISM Historical session on the theme of How did it start? With Frances Hughes, Chair of the Irving Society, on criticism a century ago and Nicholas de Jongh, critic and playwright, on crit...

THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE CENTENARY CONFERENCE: BEING CRITICISED Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Nica Burns (producer, Nimax), Jonathan Church (artistic director, Chichester Festival Theatres), David Eldridge (playwright), Hattie Morahan (actres...

RAISING THE BAR: RELEVANCE Opening the Theatre 2005 Conference sessions, Lyn Gardner, Guardian critic, challenges the notion that theatre is a dying art form.

REVIEWERS on REVIEWING (1/2) Journalist Uchenna Izundu quizzes Dominic Cavendish (Telegraph), Jane Edwardes (Time Out) and Lyn Gardner (Guardian) about the business, and art, of theatre criticism. Where did they start and how can other people get in ...