The December 2020 issue of Limelight is now available
The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Mahima Macchione, Jane Albert, Carole M. Cusack and Alex Ross.
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.
The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Mahima Macchione, Jane Albert, Carole M. Cusack and Alex Ross.
Find out what's on stage and streaming online in December from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.
Das Rheingold will open at Melbourne's newly renovated Regent Theatre in February, with the Cycle culminating in 2023.
Originally scheduled for 2020, Impermanence, created to a new score by Bryce Dessner, will premiere, while the acclaimed ab [intra] will return.
The entirely WA program takes the river as its theme and includes a range of new work, with a strong Noongar component.
From a park bench in Sydney’s Green Park to Gunaikurnai country in the Victorian Alps, from Singapore to outer space, Griffin’s new season crosses worlds.
Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.
Productions include the return of Fangirls and A Room of One's own, three new Australian plays, and The Cherry Orchard.
New AD Alan Cumming presents a taster of his full line-up (to be announced next March), with his own new cabaret show closing the festival.
Jason Arrow has landed the title role of Alexander Hamilton, with local performers from diverse backgrounds playing the vast majority of roles.
This farce, set over Christmas lunch, is written with an unusual twist, but the humour largely fails to land.
Deborah Cheetham has composed a new carol for ABC Classic, which Australians are invited to record together. Russell Torrance talks to Limelight about the project and how he can't hear the music without crying.
OA is announcing its 2021 program in stages. This first season includes Ernani, Bluebeard's Castle, The Merry Widow and Tosca. Lyndon Terracini also addresses the company restructure and redundancies.