To mark the 50th anniversary of performer Tina Arena’s career, the National Portrait Gallery has commissioned photographer Georges Antoni to create her portrait.
The names of festival-theatre director, the late Domenic Mico, and popular ACT arts minister, the late Bill Wood, have been given jointly to the Wood-Mico Theatre, launched on Friday at Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
Actor Christopher Samuel Carroll is heading back to town after a lightning trip to the Edinburgh Fringe with his one-man show, The Cadaver Palaver, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A film destined to warm the hearts of Italian-Australians will be one of the highlights of this year’s Italian film festival, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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.
"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.