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South Australia's arts festival for young people is about to begin. But why is Adelaide keeping so quiet about it?
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Apr 24, 2013
Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the seminal dystopian novel celebrated the 50th year of its first publication in 2012. This production comes from UK theatre company Action To The Word. Seymour Centre, Sydney, April 23 to May 5 then on tour around Australia.
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More show than substance as all-male cast bring Burgess to the stage. (Seymour Centre, Sydney, April 23)
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Bell Shakespeare's canny updated adaptation compresses six hours of history plays neatly into three.
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A short-but-sweet triumph in Tasmania marks an auspicious beginning for Hobart Baroque.
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Tolstoy would have approved of this intimate production's novel approach.
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Clive Paget -
Mar 21, 2013
On the eve of its Sydney opening, Limelight catches up with the show’s award winning composer, Grant Olding.
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Kneehigh's Brief Encounter and Sylvie Guillem in PUSH will headline at this year's Festival.
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On making silent operas and how Einstein on the Beach was supposed to be about Hitler.
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Pirates... But not as we know ‘em!
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This riotous, all-male Gilbert & Sullivan production revels in high camp on the high seas.
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There are high Cs on the high seas at the Sydney Theatre… but no women to sing them.
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Jo Litson -
Oct 26, 2012
Bell Shakespeare, dir Lee Lewis
Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
October 25
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The iconic opera house takes the name of the legendary soprano who called it home.
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Dutch composer Michael van der Aa's existential opera is guaranteed to get audiences thinking.
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Clive Paget -
Oct 3, 2012
Company B, dir Ralph Myers
Belvoir St Theatre, Upstairs
September 30, 2012
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The Australian entertainment industry's night of nights: a red carpet who's who of opera and theatre.
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Cate Blanchett, Evgeny Kissin, operas La Traviata and Moby Dick among the big winners.
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Melissa Lesnie -
Sep 24, 2012
A same-sex Marriage of Figaro among the offerings in this year's political romp.
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Melissa Lesnie -
Sep 24, 2012
Tony Abbott as Darth Vader: just one of this year's spoofs in STC's great political satire.
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The British author turns her hand to dance in an adaptation of Grimm’s twisted fairytale.
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After a $135.8 million rebuild, Melbourne’s once-dodgy Hamer Hall may just be the country’s finest concert venue.
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The English singer was a fine interpreter of Gilbert and Sullivan and Lieder.
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Why director-driven travesty beats bland traditionalism in opera any day.
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Australian premiere: Philip Glass's disturbing work explores the inner-workings of Kafka's grim torture machine.
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Feb 8, 2012
In 2012, Mozart’s revolutionary masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro gets a new production for Opera Australia from one of the most exciting theatrical minds in Australia, Benedict Andrews. After his award-winning productions of The Wars of the Roses and The Seagull, what will he make of Mozart?
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One of the most ravishing visual and theatrical feasts to be seen on our stages for some time.
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Is this controversial piece of music theatre a masterwork for our times?
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Melbourne Festival artistic director Brett Sheehy serves up a classical music feast like no other.
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Emma Matthews, the Berlin Phil and Cate Blanchett take out top honours.
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Fry of the valkyries: Stephen’s homage to his musical hero.
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Jul 21, 2011
As the staff of Opera Australia put the finishing touches on their new production Of Mice and Men, we went behind the scenes to see how the set and costumes are created, with veteran designed John Stoddart as our guide.
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Renegade classical pianist headlines.
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Lynden Barber -
Jul 12, 2011
The edge of dance: Wim Wenders takes Pina Bausch into 3D.
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Limelight catches up with a young opera and theatre director on the rise.
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Melissa Lesnie -
Jun 28, 2011
The king of talkback radio will play President Roosevelt in a new Australian production.
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Stuart Maunder, Soloists, SSO/Guy Noble
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Saturday June 18, 2011
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Sydney Theatre Company and La Boite Theatre Company present Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness by Anthony Neilson, costumes by Romance Was Born.
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Limelight gives you a front-row seat inside the world's most illustrious opera theatres, old and new: their history, classic performances and the hottest tickets coming up.
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Melissa Lesnie -
Jun 14, 2011
Priscilla Queen of the Desert and The Book of Mormon win big.
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Melissa Lesnie -
May 26, 2011
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton take their second bows leading STC into record profit.
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The music theatre phenomenon celebrates 1000 performances in Oz.
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Composer Lucy Simon eschewed the bright lights of Broadway to stage her new musical in Australia.
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Melissa Lesnie -
Apr 4, 2011
Sundance and Cannes favourites, Gael Garcia Bernal and a Japanese love story among this year's cinematic offerings.
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Melissa Lesnie -
Mar 16, 2011
Pub opera instead of pub rock: Olivier Award for young Australian's new La Bohème, performed in a tavern.
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Could Southern China's new cultural beacon eclipse the Sydney Opera House?
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Premier Kristina Keneally and Arts Minister Virginia Judge confirm a major arts facelift for Parramatta’s controversial development site.
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David Sefton to take the reins in 2013.
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Seth Jordan -
Jan 12, 2011
As a composer for documentaries and theatre, Sydney musician Nicolette Boaz is used to adapting various styles for a common purpose.
