Arts Illuminated Pty Ltd, the publisher of Limelight, is looking for a new publisher to take over the magazine in the immediate future, or for other financial support to tide it over while a new publisher is sought. Without this, the publication will close.

Limelight is Australia’s leading arts magazine with a special focus on classical music and opera. In recent years, it has also increased its coverage of theatre, dance and the visual arts. At a time when arts coverage in Australia is diminishing, Limelight has an increasingly vital role to play, given the informed, in-depth, long-form, lively coverage of the arts that it offers. No one else in Australia is covering classical music and opera as widely or reviewing such a large number of classical CDs. It also has a very active website, which was redesigned recently, on which news, reviews, interviews and features are published daily, with online traffic increasing dramatically in recent times.

“Limelight has come a long way in the last four years,” says Clive Paget, Editor from 2015 to November 2017, then Editor at Large based in New York. “Previously the ABC’s classical music magazine, licensed to Haymarket Media, it was largely print readership only...