Virginia Gay: The Write Stuff
Actor Virginia Gay emerges from lockdown as a busy playwright.
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.
Actor Virginia Gay emerges from lockdown as a busy playwright.
Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton discusses his world premiere for Queensland Symphony Orchestra and his performances at Illuminate Adelaide and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
Tim Minchin shows yet again that he is an artist at the top of his game with his inspired, witty and moving cabaret show BACK.
There is much to marvel at in L'Hôtel at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival but the show has structural issues.
This program of artsong concerts, performed by four solo singers for Sydney Chamber Opera, will illustrate where the modern song has found itself in the 21st century.
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.