Introducing the January-February 2026 issue of Limelight
A comprehensive guide to the performing arts in 2025; essential holiday listening; the must-see shows. Limelight is your ideal summer companion.
A comprehensive guide to the performing arts in 2025; essential holiday listening; the must-see shows. Limelight is your ideal summer companion.
Not the greatest spin-off musical, but thanks to a cast that gives it their all, entertaining enough to satisfy fans of the film.
Honouring the mechanics of a well-worn classic, this Dial M slyly reveals how much was lurking in its margins.
A direct-to-the-heart festive experience? A last minute stocking-filler? Here's everything you need to know about Christmas 2025 on stage.
Justice done to an Aaron Sorkin courtroom classic inspired by real events.
Sharon Millerchip shines in this modest but affecting kitchen-sink drama.
Contrasting immersive theatrical magic with gothic darkness, Melbourne’s new theatrical tradition has the power to banish the “humbug” out of any Scrooge.
A riotous collection of songs and stories studded with hilarious quips, dirty jokes, poignant social commentary and oversharing.
Toni Lamond blazed a trail for Australian performers in big musicals in a career that spanned eight decades.
Australian theatre companies were early and enthusiastic adopters of Stoppard’s work, some of the most celebrated plays of the modern repertoire.
Leaning into Chinese diaspora identity, elements of Merlynn Tong's musical play may be incomprehensible for some, but the humour and pathos will chime with most.
Tongue-in-cheek fun yet sobering, this new play by Andrea Gibbs reminds us that even at Christmas, miracles are in short supply.
Bristling with theatre scene in-jokes, a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic pecks at the established order.