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Best of This Week’s Theatre Blogs - 12 Jun 2009

Welcome to another new regular feature on Whatsonstage.com. Every week our theatregoer reporter Corinne Furness trawls the web to find some of the best gems from the myriad theatre-related blogs and condense them into one easy-to-read “Best of the Blogs” round-up each Friday.

Tony night might have brought a bucketload of awards for Billy Elliot, but it also provoked Matt Wolf to blog on how claims that the Brits are taking over Broadway might be a bit premature. The debate rumbled on.

The celebration was less muted as Mark Shenton celebrated his 1000th entry on his blog of The Stage website, reflecting in the process on the widening of interactivity which theatre blogging has enabled.

It was not only, however, theatre critics who were asking questions this week. In the wake of “stunt casting” in the West End, Confessions of a Director tackled the question of “star” led productions and what it might mean for both directors and writers. While it may be another of those British productions of American musicals which Wolf questioned, amid rumours of a La Cage transfer to Broadway, Everything I Learnt From Musicals enquired whether the success was based on more than just "stunt casting". In a display of the sort of feedback Shenton praised blogging for enabling, the answer from commentators was a resounding yes.

If 1,000th anniversaries, large-scale musicals and stunt casting were all a bit too much, there was respite care of Forest Fringe blogging about something much smaller – a new kind of space for creativity in Edinburgh this summer where the half-developed idea scribbled on the back of a beer mat might find its home.

- by Corinne Furness - Theatregoer Reporter

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