Canberra REP is stepping back into the world of midnight feasts, secret codes, hockey finals and boarding-school adventures with Daisy Pulls It Off, Denise Deegan’s Olivier Award-winning comedy, opening this Friday.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Canberra’s spring celebration is set to leave its mark on Australian coin collecting, with the Royal Australian Mint unveiling a special ACT bluebell privy mark coin as part of this year’s Floriade About Town festivities.
Canberra artist Sophie Dumaresq is taking an unlikely travelling companion to one of Australia's most unconventional arts festivals, an animatronic shark named Baby, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Canberra's Rebus Theatre is calling on LGBTQIA+ young people aged 12 to 17 to take part in Acting Out: On Screen, a free filmmaking program designed to foster creativity, confidence and connection during the October school holidays.
It was no surprise when Canberra comic actor Joe Dinn was cast as Olaf the Snowman in Free-Rain Theatre’s forthcoming production of Disney’s Frozen at The Q, writes HELEN MUSA.
A men’s choir marks 40 years of song, Italian cinema returns and more than $52,000 is up for grabs for local artists in arts editor HELEN MUSA’s latest “Artsweek”.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been adapted countless times, but rarely with as much pizzazz as in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of).
Simon Tedeschi plans to place the evening’s repertoire entirely in the hands of the audience when he returns to Canberra for an unscripted concert of musical requests, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Cat Empire's infectious rhythms met the lush sounds of Canberra Symphony Orchestra in a musical marriage that proved an overwhelming success, reviews IAN McLEAN.
The Beatles, The Seekers, miniskirts and political satire collide in a nostalgic trip back to 1966, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Royal Australian Mint has on Monday unveiled its Origins of Australian Coin: 2026 $1 Holey Dollar Uncirculated Coin, marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between Australia and Mexico.
From Wakakirri’s student storytellers to Orwell with an Australian twist, arts editor HELEN MUSA surveys what’s on in this week’s “Artsweek” column.
