Lyn Gardner’s Guardian blog has blown the trumpet for regional theatre and shone a light on important topics. It’s loss is a blow for theatre around the country, says Carl Woodward.
It was one of the few platforms that arts professionals followed religiously. So why is Lyn Gardner’s Theatre blog in choppy waters? With some inevitability, Lyn Gardner has announced that her regular blog for The Guardian is to be canned from April 1. The move is part of cost-cutting measures and in business terms, it makes sense; saving the Guardian £13,500.00 per year. I like many others am outraged – Gardner has significantly maintained a high standard of theatre critique in the public realm, refreshingly, not defined by clickbait. Lyn is one of Britain’s most respected theatre critics working in the mainstream media... Keep reading on iNews
It was one of the few platforms that arts professionals followed religiously. So why is Lyn Gardner’s Theatre blog in choppy waters? With some inevitability, Lyn Gardner has announced that her regular blog for The Guardian is to be canned from April 1. The move is part of cost-cutting measures and in business terms, it makes sense; saving the Guardian £13,500.00 per year. I like many others am outraged – Gardner has significantly maintained a high standard of theatre critique in the public realm, refreshingly, not defined by clickbait. Lyn is one of Britain’s most respected theatre critics working in the mainstream media... Keep reading on iNews