The cover image for the December issue of Limelight will doubtless be instantly recognisable to most of our readers. It features a 19th-century illustration of Bob Cratchit and his son Tiny Tim from an edition of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. In our cover feature, The Gospel According to Dickens, Deborah Jones talks with the creative artists behind some of the adaptations heading to our stages about why Dickens’ classic story continues to inspire so many theatremakers, and how Ebenezer Scrooge embodies something we all yearn to believe in.

The cover of Limelight’s December 2022 issue

In this issue, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Limelight Artists of the Year Awards. After counting the votes from our reviewers and readers, we reveal the Australian and international artists who have taken home our Critics’ Choice and People’s Choice laurels.

In the wake of a disappointing federal budget for the arts, Ben Eltham examines the challenges for our cultural sector as it attempts to emerge from its deepest downturn in our third feature After the Crisis?

And in our fourth feature,