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.
STCSA will present the Victorian thriller Gaslight at the refurbished Her Majesty’s Theatre. Griffin also plans to perform its first live play in September, following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
The conductor and AD of the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music talks publicly for the first time about his rehabilitation after almost severing his left hand in a garden accident.
Selected from 486 applications to the ABC’s Australian Music Fund, established to support local artists during the coronavirus crisis, the new works will be presented over the coming year.
Limelight has received a Small Business Grant from the City of Sydney through its COVID-19 Relief Grants for a three-part program to support performing arts companies as they gradually return to the stage.
The new National Chamber Music Championship for high school students, launched by Musica Viva to mark its 75th anniversary, will now take place online.
Amy Dickson, Joseph Tawadros, Katie Noonan & the Australian String Quartet, Richard Tognetti & Erin Helyard, and WASO, Asher Fisch & Stuart Skelton are this year’s nominees.
Musical theatre fans around the world rejoiced when Disney+ announced it would stream a film of the stage production of Hamilton. Does it live up to expectations? You bet!
Posting an operating loss for 2019, the board and auditors have raised concerns about Sydney Theatre Company’s ongoing financial future in the newly released Annual Report.
If you love musicals and are aching to see a live show, this innovative live streamed production is a wonderful substitute.
The Living Music Report analyses what the MPA funded orchestras played in 2019 and finds that music reflecting the culture diversity of 21st-century Australia is “notably absent”.
Soprano Eva Kong is about to make her debut as Manon in Seoul – though the performances, which were planned to take place in front of an audience, will now stream live.
Eleanor Lyons and her conductor/pianist husband Vladimir Fanshil have formed LIVEATYOURS, a new project offering “micro-concerts” in people’s homes, which launches tonight.
In her final column, Jo Litson explores the musical Who's Your Baghdaddy? live streaming from Sydney, the last five NT at Home plays, and Repeat Attenders, the documentary about musical theatre "superfans".
