The Song Company adopts a new artistic model
A newly formed Artistic Advisory Committee will be chaired by Paul Stanhope, with guest directors engaged in 2023 as Artistic Director Antony Pitts steps aside.
September 19, 2022
Jo Litson
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.
Articles by Jo Litson
On Stage: the events you need to see in October 2022
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
September 19, 2022
Comings and Goings: October 2022
The latest arts appointments and departures.
September 19, 2022
Newsworthy: October 2022
A round-up of our recent news reports.
September 19, 2022
Emma Jayakumar on ‘inventing’ her new family opera
Our Little Inventor is based on Sher Rill Ng's children's book. Emma Jayakumar explains how the two of them collaborated to create a new family work for West Australian Opera.
September 15, 2022
Melbourne Theatre Company announces its 2023 season
Anne-Louise Sarks says her inaugural MTC season offers new perspectives and tells familiar stories in new ways in order to open up conversation and attract new audiences.
September 14, 2022
Belvoir announces its 2023 season
The exciting season includes a Sondheim musical, two new Indigenous plays among seven Australian stories, and an adaptation of a best-selling Australian novel.
September 12, 2022
Introducing the October 2022 issue of Limelight
In this month's features we explore three new productions of Swan Lake, pay tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 150th, investigate a new opera about Olive Pink and publish an extract from Andrew Mellor's new book The Northern Silence about Nordic music and culture.
September 9, 2022
Zubin Mehta awarded Companion of the Order of Australia
The award was presented to the legendary Maestro by His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley, Governor-General of Australia, at the Sydney Opera House following the Australian World Orchestra concert.
September 5, 2022
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra announces its 2023 season
Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.
September 5, 2022
Opera Australia announces its 2023 season
Lyndon Terracini's final season includes The Tales of Hoffmann with Jessica Pratt, Adriana Lecouvreur with Ermonela Jaho, and concert versions of La Gioconda with Jonas Kaufmann in Sydney and Philip Glass's Satyagraha in Melbourne.
August 30, 2022
Review: The Phantom of the Opera (Opera Australia and the Really Useful Group)
It feels fitting The Phantom of the Opera should haunt the Sydney Opera House – and this new version of the iconic musical has plenty of thrills.
August 27, 2022
Gayle Samuels on playing a Younger role in Sydney
As she was about to perform in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play A Raisin in the Sun, the American actor discovered a program from the 1959 Broadway production in a box of her father's things.
August 25, 2022