RISING finally arises
After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID lockdowns, Melbourne’s new winter arts festival has announced its program for June 2022.
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.
After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID lockdowns, Melbourne’s new winter arts festival has announced its program for June 2022.
Our April features explore the new Cobar Sound Chapel, a documentary about luthier Harry Vatiliotis's last violin, musical arrangements in the past and today, and the joy of walking and its link to creativity.
Executive Director Janine Collins discusses the aims of the initiative and the inaugural tour by the Acacia Quartet opening tonight.
The plot may be simplistic and cartoon-like but it's a feel-good musical with an important message, and the Australian cast delivers it in style.
Robert Jarman, one of Tasmania's most accomplished and respected theatre artists, will be honoured for his 30-year career when the Awards are presented on 5 March.
Stefanie Jones discusses landing the role of Mary Poppins after a whirlwind trip to London where she auditioned on the West End stage in front of Cameron Mackintosh.
The former television executive and leading arts philanthropist has died in a boating accident, aged 77.
McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery is staging a series of intimate Sunday Soirées featuring Victorian musicians including flautist Elizabeth Shephard and the Partridge String Quartet.
A child prodigy in the 1920s and a Decca artist in the 1950s and 60s, 97-year-old American pianist Ruth Slenczynska has now been re-signed by the label.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
This month Limelight explores electric instruments in classical music, and women and sexual violence in opera. We also interview Paavali Jumppanen, Artistic Director of ANAM, and explore Halévy's grand opera La Juive.
The latest arts appointments and departures.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.