When the curtain rose on the new Canberra Theatre on June 24, 1965, a crowd of VIPs crammed in to see Minister for the Interior Doug Anthony launch Australia's first multi-purpose theatre centre, reports HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
HELEN MUSA lines up all the big arts events of the coming week in her latest Artsweek column.
From modest beginnings when a bunch of ANU students got together, Luminescence singers have catapulted on to the wider Australian music scene as a respected professional six-voice ensemble, writes HELEN MUSA.
A 19-year-old Canberra jazz singer is well on her way to success, with a scholarship and a place at the noted Eastman School of Music in upstate New York, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A planned changing of the guard at the Cultural Facilities Corporation has seen a swag of exceptionally high-profile appointments to its board, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Turkish-Australian soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal is returning to Canberra on Sunday with a passion project, a concert of all-Cuban music simply titled, Cuba.
Luminescence is turning 10 with a gala concert and Canberra Rep's staging a sequel to a notorious play lead the arts news in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Harp and Flute, a performance by Alice Giles and Laura Chislett.
Opening night for this provoking play about what humanity is doing to the planet was cut short when a cast member was taken ill, but the second night saw a solid audience with returnees wanting to see how this epic was going to finish.
Muslim communities around the ACT have been celebrating the feast of Eid al-Adha on Friday.
"One can be sceptical of the many local remounts of older works we see these days, but this show has more relevance than many." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews Noel Coward's Present Laughter.
Memories were to the fore when Governor-General Sam Mostyn took to the podium at Canberra Museum and Gallery on Tuesday to launch a petite but significant exhibition, Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Honours system.
