Theatres and concert halls will be able to seat up to 1000 people, while restrictions on choirs and wind instruments in schools have been eased slightly.

The orchestra’s Music and Memory pilot program, which saw musicians perform live music for people with dementia, has yielded a number of positive impacts.

Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra Queensland Theatre and Circa will all perform live in the coming months in a program called Queensland’s Own.

The new production of the Australian opera will see State Opera South Australia return to a newly renovated Her Majesty’s Theatre.

The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Steve Dow, Jan Bowen, Harriet Cunningham and Clive Paget.

The 30 semi-finalists, who had made the unanimous decision to withdraw from the competition, have hit back at the claim by the RGE that the scholarship was cancelled in order to protect them from bullying.

The innovative online platform is teaming up with the National Art School to broadcast concerts from the Cell Block Theatre.

The actor and playwright has become the first Indigenous artist to win any of the prizes on offer in the Archibald Prize in its 99-year history.

After coming under fire for the lack of diversity in its 2020 cohort of semi-finalists, the RGE has announced changes to the way it will operate, and has cancelled the 2020 competition.

TSO House will showcase Tasmanian composers past and present, with music available to hire to orchestras, community ensembles and schools around the world.

Created by People of Colour for People of Colour, the new scholarship launched by Artists of Colour Initiative aims to generate change in Australian musical theatre.

The Sydney ensemble has taken out the top prize in Musica Viva’s inaugural National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school ensembles.