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How to Write a Theatre Review - Resources

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Theatre Reviews - Resources

I've seen countless plays, read about various shows and think I know a bit about the Theatre. When I sat down to write my first review since my H.N.D many years ago, I struggled immensely. Pinning down my thoughts seemed almost impossible. I went searching around the internet for some guides to help me get back in the swing of things. I hope they are useful to other people too.

How to Write Theatre Reviews - Guides

Writing and Using Reviews of Shakespeare Productions: Problems and a Few Suggestions
An interesting article by a Reviewer with 20 years experience.
Saint Mary's University: Writing a Play Review
A pdf consisting of questions to ask yourself when reviewing.
A Guide to Writing Theater Reviews - Associated Content
A 10 point guide that I found really useful to start with.
A Five Step Guide to Writing Quality Theatre Reviews - Associated Content
A 5 point guide.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Writing a Review
A Word Document from their Education Department.
Curtain Ups Writing Guidelines
A very useful page with a slightly different emphasis including "The 5 C's of Good Critical Writing".
Writing Reviews
A PDF Guide from La Trobe University.
Reviewing a Production
A Word Doc from Apex High School.
How to Write a Play Review: 15 steps - WikiHow
From WikiHow.
28 Tips for writing Theater, Movie and Performance Reviews.
From the High School Journalism Initiative.

Theater Reviews: The Dark Side

Noises off: Writing theatre critics' wrongs
A director offers a refund to any audience members who agree with a negative review of his show.

Other Useful Links

Michael Billington on what you need to be a theatre critic
'Could you do my job? Here's a checklist..'. From the Guardian.
The Stage / Podcasts / The role of the theatre critic: The Stage Podcast #49
Theatre critics Mark Shenton (The Stage, Sunday Express) and Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) discuss the nature of theatre journalism in front of an audience of students.
The Stage / Shenton's View / Dangerous times for critics....
Dangerous times for critics....
Eliminate theatre critics at your peril | Guardian
David Cote: Cost-saving publishers are ditching seasoned reviewers - and pitching criticism into incoherent chaos in the process

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While I couldn't find lenses on Theatre Reviews, these lenses have advice that could be useful, especially when thinking of the Play the performance is based on.
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Feedback

Have you got tips for writing reviews? Thoughts on how to improve or a review you wish to share?

  • thatgrrl Apr 2, 2012 @ 12:04 am | delete
    Lots of links but what about your own experience? Did you write your review, how did it turn out?
  • brynimagire Mar 26, 2012 @ 6:39 am | delete
    Great information ! thanks.
  • arperinos Feb 24, 2012 @ 5:42 am | delete
    Good ! Thank you for sharing.
  • jadehorseshoe Dec 25, 2011 @ 11:49 am | delete
    Wonderful Lens!
  • tajo Jun 25, 2011 @ 10:32 am | delete
    Nicely done, a good selection of resources here. Would be great if you could include a template for writing a theater review as well. Then this lens would rock.
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