A comprehensive guide to the performing arts in 2025; essential holiday listening; the must-see shows. Limelight is your ideal summer companion.

EQ to play metropolitan concert halls, speakeasy-style bars, rainforest retreats and heritage venues in a diverse 2025 program.

Sought-after artists and an Australian masterwork turn the spotlight on the "diversity of the Australian music scene".

New 10-year arts policy to address lack of opportunity for young and mid-career arts and culture workers in WA; $54 million ear-marked for initiatives in the short term.

Looking back at the live classical music reviews that captured the most eyes at Limelight this year, with a surprising number one spot.

Vocal ensemble Sjaella, UK pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Latvian stars The Balanas Sisters among the Snow Concert Hall's drawcards.

Boy soprano turned bass-baritone Freddy Shaw named the next recipient of the Humanity Foundation Taryn Fiebig Scholarship.

An inspirational player and teacher, Zakir Hussain collaborated widely in a career that spanned Indian Classical music, jazz and rock.

STEM focus and NAPLAN testing contributing to an undervaluing of arts and music and systemic neglect in investment, new report concludes.

Fine music floods the Sapphire Coast as Four Winds offers a classical Easter celebration, intriguing collaborations and intimate recitals.

William Barton, Stephen Page and Australian Haydn Ensemble to feature in the State Library of NSW’s year of "transformative storytelling".

Relegated to an "unfunded excellence" category in the latest Create NSW funding round, Taikoz is facing an uncertain future.