Steve Dow is the 2020 Walkley Arts Journalism Award recipient for his essay, profile and reportage portfolio. The Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer’s work also appears in The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Meanjin, Art Guide, and Vault.
Despite making redundancies last year, Opera Australia has posted a sizeable deficit. "It doesn't look pretty," says CEO Rory Jeffes, but he believes OA is now better placed to deal with further disruptions.
The vocal chamber work is based on the friendship of botanist Vera Scarth-Johnson and Guugu Yimithirr man Tulo Gordon, and involves Tulo Gordon's nephew Derek Rosendale.
Award-winning film composer Stephen Warbeck, who wrote and directed The Man in the Hat with John-Paul Davidson, talks to Limelight about how he wanted his music to affect his hatted protagonist, not just the audience.
Steve Dow looks at what the 2021-22 Federal Budget has in store for the arts industry after the horror year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s new Artistic Director talks COVID and connection.
Adelaide will be illuminated in a new winter festival featuring an innovative program of music, art, light and technology.
Back in Perth for the first time in a year, the maestro shares the challenges and triumphs of conducting opera productions and orchestras across a world in the grip of a global pandemic.
Steve Dow explores the history of Adelaide's Her Majesty's Theatre and its latest renovation, which fuses the old and the new.
Ahead of his Australian debut as Oberon at the Adelaide Festival, the Brooklyn-born countertenor talks to Limelight about faith, politics, and how a raffle ticket changed his life.
Honesty and anecdotes illuminate a life beyond Blue Heelers.
Della Rae Morrison and Barry McGuire discuss the concert which will blend Noongar music with works by Sibelius, Stravinsky and Copland, and the festival's strong Indigenous component.
Seann Miley Moore, currently performing in Rent, and Glace Chase, soon to star in trans love story Triple X, talk to Steve Dow about gender diversity in Australian theatre.
Jansson J. Antmann, Steve Dow, Deborah Jones and Ian Whitney analyse this year’s offerings in theatres and concert halls.
