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.
We chart the latest appointments and departures in the arts sector, among them Opera Australia's new CEO Fiona Allan and Jill Atkinson's retirement from Queensland Symphony Orchestra after 47 years as Principal Harp.
From heart-breaking cancellations due to COVID to funding lifelines, from awards to obituaries, we gather the arts news we have covered over the last month.
Christian Li recently released his debut album for Decca Classics, becoming the youngest soloist to record Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons for a major label – yet another first for the virtuosic, 13-year-old Melbourne violinist.
Six budding young dancers will spend a day with Queensland Ballet, while the winner will play a walk-on role in the QB production of The Nutcracker in December.
Brian Nebenzahl, the founder of Playbill, which publishes programs and organises merchandise for the performing arts in Australia and internationally, has died aged 86.
After cancelling two new productions, Cyrano and Sunday, Melbourne Theatre Company will receive $5 million from the Federal Government's COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund.
Young Australian ballet dancers Milei Lee and Amelia Soh have won a silver and bronze medal respectively at the Royal Academy of Dance's prestigious competition The Fonteyn.
A new partnership will see Queensland Ballet present two seasons at HOTA in 2022. The company will also build a new Production Centre at Yatala.
Barrie Kosky returns to the Adelaide Festival with his third operatic production, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel.
Based in Europe, Australian soprano Alexandra Flood is back home for a few months and discusses her career, quarantine at Howard Springs, forthcoming gigs and making the most of it during COVID.
Three Melbourne-based artists have launched a petition calling for the arts to be included in our daily news services in a similar way to sport.
Deborah Cheetham, Celia Craig, Elena Kats-Chernin, Genevieve Lacey and Katie Noonan are among the finalists announced for the Australian Women in Music Awards.
Three of the four finalists for this year's Freedman Jazz Fellowship are women, while the styles of all four are markedly different – which is a boon for Australian jazz.
