September 27, 2020
Theatre
Review: Wonnangatta (Sydney Theatre Company)
Angus Cerini’s new play about an unsolved double murder, is atmospherically staged and brilliantly performed by Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair.
September 25, 2020
Classical Music
NSW announces increase in live audience numbers
Theatres and concert halls will be able to seat up to 1000 people, while restrictions on choirs and wind instruments in schools have been eased slightly.
September 25, 2020
Classical Music
Siobhan Stagg’s unique musical response to the pandemic
Lockdown was an opportunity to commission "Listen", a song that has resonated with many.
September 25, 2020
Classical Music
Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival to go ahead
The ten-day festival will feature live music from Mahalia Barnes, Elysian Fields, Gai Bryant, Melody Riviera and many more, as well as Brazilian bossa-nova singer and nylon string guitarist Anna Setton streaming in from São Paulo.
September 23, 2020
Theatre
Bell Shakespeare’s COVID interrupted 30th
Peter Evans discusses the company's new series of debates, its podcasts Speak the Speech, and the likely return of the Prince of Denmark next year.
September 21, 2020
Supported by 
To mask or not to mask, as Sydney performance venues start to reopen
As Sydney venues begin to open their doors, Steve Dow investigates the various COVID safety protocols in place.
September 21, 2020
Classical Music, Opera
A Tale of Two Cosìs: why two wildly different productions hit the spot
Why the two wildly different productions are both such hits, and asks how the misogynistic opera is received today.
September 23, 2020
Opera
Did you hear about Sir Thomas Beecham’s operatic double-take?
How a chorusmaster's cock-up caused an unsolicited encore in the middle of Elektra.
September 27, 2020
Review: Wonnangatta (Sydney Theatre Company)
Angus Cerini’s new play about an unsolved double murder, is atmospherically staged and brilliantly performed by Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair.
September 27, 2020
Review: Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Angelus (Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra)
Glorious orchestrations shine in works by award-winning Russian based in Sweden.
September 22, 2020
Review: Natsuko Plays Beethoven (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra)
Undaunted by COVID-19 disruption, concertmaster Natsuko Yoshimoto farewells the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with a commanding performance of one of Beethoven’s greatest works.
September 19, 2020
Review: QPAC Unlocked: Viva Espaňa (Camerata)
QPAC’s Unlocked series amply delivers with a splendid Spanish-themed concert of home-grown talent with a delightful twist.
September 17, 2020
Review: A Room of One’s Own (Belvoir)
Anita Hegh does a brilliant job of conveying Virginia Woolf's supple mind in Belvoir's first post-COVID, socially distanced production.
September 28, 2020
Review: Ironwood: Romantic Dreams
Gallic dreams delight with quintet fireworks, both old and new.
September 28, 2020
Review: Holy Fools: Music of Luke Altmann (Benaud Trio)
The Benaud Trio are compelling advocates for Luke Altmann in this literature-infused exploration of the composer’s work.
September 27, 2020
Review: Artaria & Artaria 2 (Celia Craig)
Whether oboe with strings or oboe alone, Celia Craig's Artaria releases are well worth a listen.
September 27, 2020
Review: Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Angelus (Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra)
Glorious orchestrations shine in works by award-winning Russian based in Sweden.
September 26, 2020
Review: John F Larchet: Complete Songs & Airs (Champs Hill Records)
A forgotten Irish composer is superbly championed by Niall Kinsella.
September 23, 2020
Queensland’s flagship companies return to QPAC
Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra Queensland Theatre and Circa will all perform live in the coming months in a program called Queensland’s Own.
September 23, 2020
Did you hear about Sir Thomas Beecham’s operatic double-take?
How a chorusmaster's cock-up caused an unsolicited encore in the middle of Elektra.
September 21, 2020
On Stage in October: Classical Music, Opera & Theatre
Find out what's on stage – and streaming online – in October from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.
September 11, 2020
A Feast in the Time of Plague: an opera for our times
This weekend the world gets its first look at an opera commissioned during the COVID-19 lockdown. Jansson J. Antmann talks to the librettist and director David Pountney.
September 9, 2020
Samuel Sakker’s COVID journey from hospital ward to socially distanced Bohème
Locked-down in London, the Aussie tenor stepped up for the NHS before heading to Scotland for a major role debut.
September 27, 2020
Review: Wonnangatta (Sydney Theatre Company)
Angus Cerini’s new play about an unsolved double murder, is atmospherically staged and brilliantly performed by Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair.
September 25, 2020
Vidya Makan releases “revolutionary” song I Need You To See Me
Featuring music and lyrics by Makan, the song is performed by 101 CALD and BIPoC artists, and is a call to arms for better representation on stage and screen.
September 23, 2020
Bell Shakespeare’s COVID interrupted 30th
Peter Evans discusses the company's new series of debates, its podcasts Speak the Speech, and the likely return of the Prince of Denmark next year.
September 23, 2020
Queensland’s flagship companies return to QPAC
Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra Queensland Theatre and Circa will all perform live in the coming months in a program called Queensland’s Own.
September 21, 2020
The October 2020 issue of Limelight is now available
The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Steve Dow, Jan Bowen, Harriet Cunningham and Clive Paget.
September 21, 2020
Learning to Soar
As David McAllister prepares to leave The Australian Ballet, he releases a new memoir.
September 16, 2020
In the zone with Shaun Parker
As his company celebrates its 10th anniversary, the choreographer discusses his work and his new production about excessive gaming, which will be performed and live streamed this week.
September 12, 2020
Review: Dracula (West Australian Ballet)
An ingeniously devised, eloquent and timeless drama, brought to magnificent life by WAB.
September 11, 2020
Review: Leviathan (Circa, Brisbane Festival, QPAC)
An energetic work of impressive scope and scale, exploring human connectedness and the power of the collective.
September 4, 2020
Introducing the new-look Limelight
Before Limelight returns to print, we reveal some of the stories that will feature in our refreshed, redesigned magazine, and what to look out for online.
September 17, 2020
Meyne Wyatt awarded 2020 Archibald Packing Room Prize
The actor and playwright has become the first Indigenous artist to win any of the prizes on offer in the Archibald Prize in its 99-year history.
September 2, 2020
Metro Arts opens its new home
Metro Arts Creative Director and CEO Jo Thomas introduces us to the exciting, purpose-built venue, which will host several Brisbane Festival events.
August 26, 2020
More Australians value the arts than ever
Creating the Future, a new survey conducted by the Australia Council, shows a growing number of people have been engaging with the arts and support arts funding.
August 13, 2020
Luke Jerram’s Gaia comes to the Gold Coast
The spectacular installation will be suspended from HOTA’s Outdoor Stage across the first two weeks of October.
August 7, 2020
2020 Telstra NATSIAA winners announced
Wangkajunga and Walmajarri man Ngarralja Tommy May has taken home the major Telstra Art Award at this year’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
September 28, 2020
Review: Ironwood: Romantic Dreams
Gallic dreams delight with quintet fireworks, both old and new.
September 28, 2020
Review: Holy Fools: Music of Luke Altmann (Benaud Trio)
The Benaud Trio are compelling advocates for Luke Altmann in this literature-infused exploration of the composer’s work.
September 27, 2020
Review: Artaria & Artaria 2 (Celia Craig)
Whether oboe with strings or oboe alone, Celia Craig's Artaria releases are well worth a listen.
September 26, 2020
Review: John F Larchet: Complete Songs & Airs (Champs Hill Records)
A forgotten Irish composer is superbly championed by Niall Kinsella.
September 26, 2020
Review: Stefano Landi: La Morte d’Orfeo (Dutch National Opera)
Audi’s swansong makes compelling case for Orfeo II, Revenge of the Maenads.
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