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Seven Tips for the Arts PR
Ah, PR types, press releases, media officers, press offices, I love you all dearly, and I need you in my professional life. But there are certain things I simply cannot abide in arts PR, and they must...
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The Theatre Critic’s Guide to Life
Do you want to be a theatre critic? Do you have dreams of visiting local, national or even international theatres and writing about what you see? You do? Well, that’s great, it really is. But first of...
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What I Learned About Theatre Criticism in 2012
This year has really flown by. It seems like last week I was preparing for the Fringe and now, suddenly, here I am, sitting in my living room, surrounded by Christmas chocolates, wondering what the...
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Critics and the Theatre Industry
The thing about being a theatre critic, or a critic of any art form, is that you can often feel like you’re standing in front of a locked door, trying to find a way to get in. For example, you may...
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The Scaredy Cat’s Guide to Blogging
My Ultimate List of Fears [UPDATED]: 1. Heights 2. Bigger Heights 3. Flying Through Turbulence 4. Blogging It took me three years longer than it should have to start blogging. Let me explain; when I...
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Trash’s 20 Arts Criticism Tenets
1. Sit down and shut the fuck up. 2. Your phone is not important during a performance. 3. Separate your personal feelings about an artist from their work. Love the art, hate the artist. 4. Write for...
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The 25 Worst Things About Being an Arts Journalist Today
1. Knowing that you could not exist without the arts, but the arts could exist without you on some level. 2. The realisation that you are only ever as good as our last piece, and that last article you...
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The 26 Best Things About Being an Arts Journalist Today
1. Seeing/hearing the latest work from some of your favourite artists. 2. Discovering artists you might never have heard of through your work. 3. Meeting like-minded people, including fantastic writers...
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In the absence of criticism
What does a critic do when they’re not reviewing? Does the clock stop for a critic when the house lights go up and the review is written and filed? I used to imagine that a critic’s downtime consisted...
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Trash Interviews Chris Hislop
The subject of Arts PR fascinates me and as a writer, I’ve seen my fair share of good and bad examples of it. But, for years, I’ve longed to interview an Arts PR and find out what it is that they do...
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