Season Preview 2024: A Spirit of Optimism
There’s a confidence and assurance at play in the programming by Australian arts organisations for 2024.
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.
There’s a confidence and assurance at play in the programming by Australian arts organisations for 2024.
New Australian musicals, revivals of popular productions and new productions of crowd favourites: there's plenty to excite musical theatre fans in 2024.
Ben Mingay was once a construction worker in Newcastle. Now, he’s about to make his Opera Australia debut.
After the success of Koolbardi wer Wardong, Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse have written a second (and maybe last) Noongar opera together.
This month’s concert 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.
The latest arts appointments and departures.
Sophia Brous discusses her site-specific work The Invisible Opera, which explores the concept, dynamics and paradoxes of a public space.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
Starting 2024 as Violetta in her Opera Australia debut, soprano Samantha Clarke has a big year ahead.
Trevor Ashley's latest adults-only panto goes under the sea for a raucous mash-up of a beloved movie and a cult TV series.
When Dr Shirley Trembath became too ill to complete her biography of Roy Shepherd, Martin Comte agreed to take it on. He explains how and why.
Mark Kilmurry and Jamie Oxenbould enter the world of amateur theatre in their new play Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall.