On Air & Online: Radio and streaming in May 2023
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Jo Litson is the Editor of Limelight Magazine. She took up the position in late 2018 having joined the magazine as Deputy Editor in 2016. During a 35-year career as an arts journalist she has been a contributor to numerous publications including Limelight, The Australian, The Bulletin, and the Qantas magazine. She was the arts writer and theatre reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph for 12 years until 2018, and has written the labels for the Archibald Prize for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over 20 years.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
London-based Australian soprano Helena Dix talks about overcoming her fears and sitting for a portrait entered into this year's Archibald Prize.
Producer John Frost has announced the "electrifying new leading ladies" who will play Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked.
This compelling, heartfelt and provocative Madama Butterfly remains as relevant and powerful as when first staged in 2014.
Love, identity and the pressure to conform in focus as Squabbalogic hits the refresh button on a mid-1960s Broadway oddity.
Belvoir's production of Sondheim's Into the Woods gets off to a shaky start, but memorable performances and a moving second act win the day.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
The latest arts appointments and departures.
Features include the story behind the Dunera Mass, Stuart Maunder's love of Gilbert and Sullivan, Joanna Murray-Smith's new play Julia, and pianist Zubin Kanga's explorations with state-of-the-art technology.
Two very different productions of Sondheim's fairy-tale musical are about to open in Australia, one in Sydney, one in Perth. We speak to the directors.
Following the huge success of their song cycle Compassion, Lior and Nigel Westlake discuss their new collaboration, which has its world premiere at the Adelaide Festival.