Category: Asides

Greenroom is fast approaching its first birthday!  Yes, we’ve been tapping away here for nearly one year. In that time Greenroom has been investigating what kind of stories and posts its readers enjoy. There’s no doubt that reviews top the list, followed by interviews.

Along the way we’ve also discovered a few other indie theatre blogs (like this one) that we very much like. These now appear in the sidebar on the home page under the heading Theatre Blogs. There are only a handful so far, but we figure quality over quantity any day. We can highly recommend them all.

One which has made the list has yet to be tested, but its concept is just so much fun that we thought Critical Mass deserved a mention before the first edition hits the streets – i.e., when the Brisbane Festival kicks off at the top of September. So far the only entries have been the bios of the contributors. Critical Mass, the latest arts-focussed blog in the state is not quite unaffiliated however, given its links to the Brisbane Festival and its backing by Arts Queensland; both organisations provide disclaimers re the opinions expressed therein.

Critical Mass has invited 24 stalwart bloggers to produce commentary on the Brisbane Festival with, hopefully, readers chiming in. There will also be time for the quick tweet response to all of the fantastic shows that the Festival has lined up: just follow @brisfestival on Twitter and/or use the #criticalmass hashtag in your tweets. We see there is also a Brisbane Festival Facebook page, so it looks as though the backroom folks at the Brisbane Festival are right into social networking. Continue reading “Greenroom likes …”