“Miss Saigon” is structurally flawed, with too much attention given to the self-justifying white American wife, Ellen, taking away from what should be a starkly tragic ending, writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
The inaugural Multicultural Community Lifetime Achievement Award has gone to the founder of the National Multicultural Festival, Domenic Mico.
Canberra photographer Sammy Hawker has won the $2000 first prize in the inaugural Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize for her work “Caterpillars in Metamorphosis".
"There's a lot more to this snazzy production of Michelle Law’s play about ABC (Australian-Born Chinese) identity than a wild and wacky ride through a beauty contest with a ghost.," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Here's this week's "Artsweek" column by HELEN MUSA.
Jane Austen mania, which has swept around the world in recent years, has not left Australia unscathed and Canberra Rep is about to take full advantage of that, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
At the end of the month Chaika Theatre is staging British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s work, “The Children”, at ACT Hub, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly round-up of all-things-arts around Canberra.
This was the only Canberra performance for ANU School of Music guest violist, the Dresden-based Tahlia Petrosian. It felt like an evening of hands-on music-making, says reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Canberra comic artist Jon Sommariva is one half of the duo that has won the Children’s Book Council of Australia's “Older Readers Book of the Year”.
"This was an extraordinarily well-programmed concert that allowed audience, instrumentalists and conductor Alexander Briger, to run the full gamut of musical experience," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
There was a note of informality on Wednesday morning when the 15-musician line-up from Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra rehearsed at Snow Concert Hall before setting out on their Australian tour from the ACT.
