NSW Labor pledges $103m to rejuvenate the state’s live music sector
Geared to “grassroots” projects, the funding package will seek to reverse the 50% decline in the number of NSW music venues in recent years.
Jason joined the Limelight team in early 2023 as Digital Editor. He has served as Arts Editor of Sydney City Hub, editor of AUSTAR magazine, an online producer at Fairfax, and has reviewed theatre for The Sun-Herald (2006-2009), The Sydney Morning Herald (2009-2017), The Saturday Paper and Guardian Australia. He was co-founder/co-editor of the audreyjournal platform from 2017–22 and Publications Manager for the 2022 Sydney Film Festival.
Geared to “grassroots” projects, the funding package will seek to reverse the 50% decline in the number of NSW music venues in recent years.
Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Manager Sally Noonan to head Melbourne Theatre Company and bolster its post-Covid recovery.
First Nations soprano, composer and educator Deborah Cheetham Fraillon announced as the inaugural Elizabeth Todd Chair of Vocal Studies.
The Australian actor's journey toward another Oscar statuette for her playing of a disgraced conductor in Todd Field’s TÁR seems unstoppable.
CAMP is a window on to a world many of its younger audience would find hard to recognise let alone accept.
Twelve newly commissioned pieces of music – including one by Andrew Lloyd Webber - will frame the Coronation of King Charles.
The 2023 Alliance Française French Film Festival is a showcase of French stars – and zombies.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
A middle-aged makeover and the casting of Jason Donovan has done wonders for Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show.
Composer Nico Muhly has no idea what he will be doing in one of his upcoming Tasmanian concerts. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Florida college pulls King's Singers concert over concerns that one of the artists maintains a "lifestyle that contradicts Scripture".
Relaxed, relevant and flexible. Classical music programming needs to move with the times, says conductor Vladimir Fanshil.
The Hanover State Opera has suspended choreographer Marco Goecke after he attacked a newspaper critic with a bag of dog faeces.