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2025 Frank Van Straten Fellowship announced

Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams to unpack the Australian Performing Arts Collection's puppets and tell their stories.

August 18, 2025
Festivals, Theatre
features

Gatsby at the Green Light and a Twelfth Night reborn

The revamp of an iconic theatre ensures Brisbane will remember this party long after it is over.

August 18, 2025
Classical Music, Orchestral, Theatre
news

Queensland arts organisations share $39 million in funding boost

Fifty-three small-to-medium arts companies granted multi-year support in a "record investment" from Arts Queensland.

August 15, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Old Friends Sing Sundays (Mark Trevorrow)

Mark Trevorrow reunites with "old friends" Rupert Noffs and Bev Kennedy for a fabulous new cabaret of well-known and seldom-heard material.

August 14, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The 39 Steps (Neil Gooding Productions & Woodward Productions)

This maximalist staging of the classic John Buchan spy caper needs to shorten its Umbilical cord.

August 13, 2025
Opinion, Theatre
features

Limelight: Looking forward to 2050

We're celebrating our 250th issue this month. Rather than look back, we've asked leaders in the field to imagine what Australian theatremakers might be presenting when we publish Limelight #500.

August 12, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: So Many Splintered Parts (All Forms Considered & Assembly of Elephants)

This anthology of seven short plays lacks cohesion and complexity.

August 12, 2025
Classical Music, Dance, Opera, Theatre
news

Introducing the September 2025 issue of Limelight

Big issues, huge voices, major talents ... September's Limelight casts a wide net over the Australian music and performing arts scene and hauls in a bumper catch.

August 12, 2025
Theatre
news

Ensemble Theatre 2026 season announced

Hollywood royalty, new Australian plays (including one by David Williamson) and the return of the Middling Cove Players. Dive in!

August 12, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Once on This Island (Curveball Creative & Hayes Theatre Co)

This uplifting musical fable set in the Caribbean has the charming simplicity of a fairytale.

August 8, 2025
Film, Opera, Theatre
news

Palace Opera & Ballet announces 2026 season

Some great productions and big names but top of anyone’s must-see list should be the third instalment of Barrie Kosky’s intensely theatrical Royal Opera House Ring Cycle.

August 7, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! (La Boite Theatre & Dead Puppet Society)

This Brisbane-centric collaboration mashes personal and ecological grief with outrageous monster mayhem.

August 6, 2025
Theatre
features

Oppenheimer: Noh Theatre in the Nuclear Age

80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Allan Marett’s Noh play inspired by the "father of the atomic bomb" is being performed in Japan.

August 5, 2025

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