This month’s cover star is one of the brightest: the irrepressible Broadway legend Patti LuPone.

Ahead of an Australian tour of her new show, A Life in Notes, beginning at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the three-time Tony Award winner and creator of some of the most iconic roles in musical theatre, talks to Limelight’s Jansson J. Antmann about her extraordinary career as the undisputed queen of Broadway.

No less starry (in different circles) is the English baritone Roderick Williams. Showcased as a singer and a composer at King Charles III’s coronation, Williams is about to flex both muscles at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. In this issue, he chats with Limelight Editor-at-Large Clive Paget about being in the right place at the right time, and how he became “the go-to guy” for English song.

This month, we’re delighted to have the acclaimed novelist Christos Tsiolkas aboard to write about his experience co-writing the libretto for Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan, an oratorio about the murder of Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan in Adelaide in 1972. In a compelling piece, he explains why he...