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Theatre
Live Review

Review: My Brilliant Career (Sydney Theatre Company)

A brilliant adaptation turns Miles Franklin's classic into a world-class musical without compromising its feminist essence or Australian identity.

March 27, 2026
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Calamity Jane (Sydney Opera House & One Eyed Man Productions)

No dead wood in this sharper, funnier and even more unruly reprise of the smash-hit musical about a frontier square peg and her search for love.

October 21, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, News, Theatre
news

Hayes Theatre Co 2026: Future-curious and fresh eyes on the classics

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Addams Family and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying among the shows to get a Hayes makeover.

September 15, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Bright Star (Sport for Jove & Hayes Theatre Co)

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's bluegrass musical is a heart-on-sleeve winner with everyone on stage a quadruple threat.

September 11, 2025
news

2025 Green Room Awards announced

It's a sweep for Victorian Opera's Candide, Belvoir's Counting and Cracking and Melbourne Theatre Company's My Brilliant Career.

May 6, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Pirates of Penzance (Hayes Theatre Co)

This G&S classic, performed by a cast of just five, is wonderfully silly, joyous fun, even though the second act could do with some finessing.

February 20, 2025
News, Theatre
news

2024 Sydney Theatre Awards: the nominees

Griffin's Lewis Trilogy, STC's Stolen and the indie hit The Inheritance among the shows picked by the critics as 2024's best.

December 23, 2024
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company)

This musical adaptation is as feisty and audacious as the Australian literary classic’s protagonist and author.

November 13, 2024
Classical Music, Dance, Opera, Theatre
features

Read the November 2024 issue of Limelight

Log in to read the PDF version of Limelight's November 2024 magazine.

October 21, 2024
Musical Theatre & Cabaret
features

My Brilliant Musical

We talk to the creators of the musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career ahead of its debut Melbourne Theatre Company season.

October 21, 2024
Classical Music, Festivals, Opera, Theatre
news

The November 2024 issue of Limelight is now available

Rome's original demagogue, a Miles Franklin musical, an innings with Sir Tim Rice and the mystery of Mozart's sister. November's Limelight is on its way.

October 21, 2024
Classical Music, Festivals, Opera, Theatre
news

Introducing the November 2024 issue of Limelight

Rome's original demagogue, a Miles Franklin musical, an innings with Sir Tim Rice and the mystery of Mozart's sister. November's Limelight is on its way.

October 11, 2024
Theatre
news

The Hayes Theatre Co lifts the curtain on 2025

The Producers, Pirates of Penzance for a cast of four, a Phar Lap musical, a new show for Nancye Hayes; the Hayes promises a wild ride in 2025.

September 17, 2024

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