Rethinking Tennessee
With The Glass Menagerie opening in Perth next week, actor Mandy McElhinney and director Clare Watson talk about Tennessee Williams' legacy and revisiting the oft-maligned role of Amanda Wingfield.
With The Glass Menagerie opening in Perth next week, actor Mandy McElhinney and director Clare Watson talk about Tennessee Williams' legacy and revisiting the oft-maligned role of Amanda Wingfield.
Stuart Maunder will take over the role from outgoing Artistic Director Richard Mills in October 2023.
Writing through a pandemic, Angela Betzien couldn't bear the thought of creating something bleak. She discusses writing her first stage comedy, the very topical Chalkface.
Two wildly different, inventive stage adaptations, running concurrently in Sydney, are replacing Jekyll and Hyde's simplistic dichotomy with something far more complex.
Australian soprano Ali McGregor has formed a company to create concepts for new operas – one of which, The Call, will premiere at Opera Queensland, with McGregor starring. She explains how and why The Call came about.
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg discuss the concert spectacular Do You Hear the People Sing?, which charts their 50-year collaboration.
The latest arts appointments and departures.
This month our features explore investing in music education, reevaluating Australian culture through a regional lens, two stage adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde and whether postmodernism has put paid to beauty.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
The newly launched Alter State will celebrate Deaf and Disabled artists and performers.
Lewis Treston's bold and sexy reworking of the 1895 classic takes audiences on a Wilde night out in 90s Canberra.
As COVID restrictions ease, how can the arts sector provide safe spaces for half a million immunodeficient Australians?