Jordan Best has something to crow about. Her in-house company, Echo Theatre, is bumping in Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage to Wagga Wagga ahead of a tour to places as far flung as Gosford, Coffs Harbour and Glen Street in Sydney.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
"The 2025 Step into the Limelight schools arts showcase invites students to step into new creative territory, celebrating 'imagination, innovation and the thrill of exploring what lies beyond the familiar'," writes HELEN MUSA.
Another thumping week ahead for arts events and arts editor HELEN MUSA has it all wrapped up in one big Artsweek column.
The results are in from the piano eisteddfod held over the weekend as part of the Australian National Eisteddfod, adjudicated by Jerry Wong, head of keyboard at the Melbourne Conservatorium.
Among the many things that arts and science have in common is the encouragement of curiosity and creativity. Arts editor HELEN MUSA has an example of that in Questacon's current exhibition ZAP! CLANK! POW!
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly look at local arts news, Arts in the City.
"This is a marvellous opportunity to gain some understanding of a modern opera classic." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews a reduced production of Der Rosenkavalier.
Veteran ceramic artist Cathy Franzi, known for depicting Canberra region flora in her works, won the $10,000 Lanyon Art Prize for her assemblage of nine porcelain vessels titled Fire Open Grassland 2025, reports HELEN MUSA.
In a significant accolade for Canberra-raised film director-producer Sophie Barksdale, it has been announced at an event held simultaneously in Denver and Oklahoma that her film, Who She Is, has won a Heartland Emmy Award.
A highly-focused new reduction of Richard Strauss’s famous opera Der Rosenkavalier (the knight of the rose) is coming to the Street Theatre this weekend. Reduction? HELEN MUSA explains.
HELEN MUSA wraps a week's worth of upcoming arts and entertainment events into one sparkling column. Here's her latest Artsweek.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA talks to Madeline Li about her upcoming leading role as Juliet in Bell Shakespeare's latest production of Romeo and Juliet.
