Filling an empty space?

Thanks to Chris Moran for his warm review in The Guardian’s arts blog, Culture Vulture:

It has to be said that The Stage’s blog has got pretty much everything right. The design is attractive without being busy and Mark Shenton’s pieces, indexed intelligently, provoke thought within tight and manageable articles. The range here, too, is impressive. A brief glance through the tags throws up topics from the obvious (Spacey, Edinburgh, Spacey, Hare, Spacey again) to the intriguingly tangential (Amnesty International, Christian Voice, J Sheekey).

So what’s not to like? Well, to my own shame and embarrassment, the only thing that lets down what has the potential to be a vibrant actors’ forum is … the actors. Or rather, the lack of them.

If you’ve arrived here as a result of Chris’ blog posting, then welcome — and by all means feel free to add your voice to the comments. From next week, we’ll be feeding some of the newsblog content back into the print edition of The Stage (available in newsagents every Thursday), so you could see your pithy quote in print, too.

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