Adelaide Cabaret Festival announces its 2019 program
New AD Julia Zemiro announces her first program featuring artists including Ute Lemper, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ruthie Henshall, David Campbell, iOTA and the RocKwiz team.
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 Julia Zemiro announces her first program featuring artists including Ute Lemper, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ruthie Henshall, David Campbell, iOTA and the RocKwiz team.
An exciting triple bill with two new works, and the exhilarating mainstage debut of Melanie Lane’s WOOF.
The award-winning actor tells us about Jason Robert Brown's musical, told from two different perspectives, and why she is elated to be starring in it.
A delightful, very funny new Australian play about upsetting the potato cart in a small country town.
A traditional but superbly staged production that transcends the rain and some dated elements.
Trevor Ashley began his career at the Sydney Cabaret Convention. Now he is launching a new cabaret festival with Jennifer Holliday as one of the stars.
The 13-year-old winner of Melbourne radio station 3MBS’s The Talent Season 2 2018 tells us about how she deals with nerves before a performance, her favourite music and her dreams for the future.
The cast give it their all, but the sketchy show is no musical holy grail. Still, it’s a lot of fun.
Liam Scarlett is adapting the famous French novel Les Liasions Dangereuses.
With its tragic story involving distrust of migrants, West Side Story seems more relevant than ever, says Jo Litson, as Opera Australia prepares to stage not one but two productions. There’s also a new Broadway version and a Spielberg movie on the way.
The Kiwi Heldentenor, one of the leading Wagnerians of his generation, talks about his new album of German lieder, his idol Fritz Wunderlich, his new opera role, and “commuting” from New Zealand.
Justin Fleming's writing is ingenious, but a pacier, more energetic production would heighten the play's impact.
The internationally renowned recorder virtuoso has won the $60,000 Individual Award at the 2018 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards.