1+ hour, 12+ min ago  (380+ words) Paolo Hooke talks to composer Alex Chilvers, pipa player Lulu Liu and harpsichordist Anthony Abouhamad about Tang Suite, a new work inspired by ancient pipa manuscripts discovered in China's Mogao Caves. "I hear desert wind, the hush of pigment and…...

9+ hour, 27+ min ago  (174+ words) Ahead of her title-role debut in Opera Australia's The Merry Widow, soprano Emma Pearson tells us why operetta deserves pride of place alongside opera. Samuel Cairnduff explores how political pressure, weak leadership and funding models are reshaping what Australian arts…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (169+ words) Samuel Cairnduff explores how political pressure, weak leadership and funding models are reshaping what Australian arts organisations dare to do. Log in to read the flipbook version of Limelight's June 2026 magazine. Joe Chindamo's new concerto for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago  (246+ words) Eddy Chen and Brett Yang have become You Tube sensations as Two Set Violin, taking classical music to new audiences through their tongue-in-cheek videos. Violist Katie Yap " who played with the duo in the Australian Youth Orchestra " asks them how…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (374+ words) From 1 May to 11 July 2026, the National Art School Gallery will present Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth, a major survey exhibition of work by Sydney-based painter and Archibald Prize winner Mitch Cairns, celebrating his twenty-year artistic career since graduating from the National…...

9+ hour, 28+ min ago  (310+ words) This dark but memorable German film turns a lens on the cruelties suffered by related women across four time periods. Though it may well rank among the most epically gloomy films of the year, German director Mascha Schilinski's second feature,…...

9+ hour, 28+ min ago  (264+ words) This searingly frank tell-all memoir celebrates a true original, warts and all. From all the press, and now this book, it seems to be true'that Liza Minnelli has lived her life, on and off stage, at full volume. It's proved…...

9+ hour, 27+ min ago  (351+ words) A new album uses period instruments and imaginative arrangements to explore the songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan as they might have been heard in their day. Clive Paget talks with its conductor John Andrews. This month features Mahler from Bychkov…...

9+ hour, 27+ min ago  (481+ words) Steve Dow talks with actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison about her new play Bennelong in London. In 1789, Woollarawarre Bennelong was famously kidnapped and shackled in leg irons under the orders of the New South Wales…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (302+ words) Described by The New York Post as "Broadway's funniest new musical" and praised by Rolling Stone as "musical comedy heaven", Tootsie is the laugh-out-loud story of a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act…...