Storm in a Teacup: family, art and dementia
Nia Pericles' moving documentary, screening on ABC TV tonight, and then on ABC iView, charts her artist father's major retrospective and her mother's dementia.
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.
Nia Pericles' moving documentary, screening on ABC TV tonight, and then on ABC iView, charts her artist father's major retrospective and her mother's dementia.
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UK company 1927 is back with its new show, blending actors, animation and music.
With Johnny Carr and Geraldine Hakewill shining in the central roles, Simon Phillips' production is the real deal.
Lucy Bell and Simon Gleeson give febrile performances in Hilary Bell’s gothic thriller.
After 21 years and 65 musicals, Jeanne Pratt’s company will stage its final musical next May. Details will be announced in November when it stages Ragtime.
In 2018, aged 10, he won the Junior First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Now he is playing with the likes of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Sydney Symphony – after a banana.
Six Australian plays, five of them new, a Tony Award-winning musical and contemporary writing from overseas – all relevant to today, says AD Brett Sheehy.
Simon Phillips talks about meeting Tom Stoppard, how The Real Thing is beautiful as well as brilliant, and why Australian actors need to understand that for Stoppard the brain is sexy.
The six rising stars of The Australian Ballet in the running for this year’s Award have been named, with public voting open for the People's Choice.
Elenoa Rokobaro gives an incredible, soulful performance in an eloquent production directed by Mitchell Butel.
His win will see him performing in Europe and Asia next year. This September/October, he returns to Australia to perform.
In its 30th year the company revisits Hamlet, the first play it ever staged, this time with a female actor in the title role, and The Comedy of Errors.