Adelaide Cabaret Festival announces its first six shows for 2021
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.
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.
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.
Audiences returned to the Sydney Opera House on Sunday for a celebration of jazz icon Don Burrows. The Drama Theatre reopens this week with STC’s Rules for Living.
The international communications agency is presenting a two-day conference at the AGNSW for people working in communications and fundraising in the performing and visual arts.
The exciting program features eight plays, including three world premieres and a modern classic, re-interrogated through an Australian First Nations lens.
Emily Havea will play cocky cowboy Curly in Richard Carroll’s production for Black Swan State Theatre Company. The musical will be performed in the round with a bluegrass quartet.
The season includes seven plays, five of which are Australian and four of them world premieres, as well as three cabaret shows.
The program includes three classic ballets, an excerpt from Graeme Murphy's Air and Other Invisible Forces, and a new contemporary piece by Melanie Lane.
During Melbourne's COVID lockdown, the Australian tenor set to work on a new album. He has just released the first track on which he joined forces with Kanen Breen.
The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) has named violinist Harry Ward as the winner of the two-year program in Berlin.