HELEN MUSA rounds up a week's worth of arts experiences in this week's Artsweek column.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
The Street Theatre is staging an extraordinary adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment by Americans Marilyn Campbell-Lowe and Curt Columbus of the mighty 19th century novel, which they’ve got down to 90 minutes, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City, a weekly look at all things arts around Canberra and beyond.
One of Canberra's brightest young musicians is about to take off to study at Albert Einstein's old college in Switzerland, but not before he gives a farewell concert, reports HELEN MUSA.
Around 2750 musicians from 83 concert, school and jazz bands, orchestras and ensembles took part in the Australian National Eisteddfod’s Bands & Orchestras event.
Billed as an “absurdist romantic comedy,” Canberra Rep’s next offering, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, begins when Jean (Jess Waterhouse), noticing that the man next to her in a café fails to answer his mobile phone, finds he's dead.
A group of artists struggling to pay the rent in New York City during the AIDS pandemic hardly sounds like the formula for a hit musical. But it is reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews another week of Canberra arts in her latest Artsweek column.
When an Adelaide law lecturer drowned in 1972 after having been thrown into the River Torrens, it led to SA becoming the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality. The story seems tailor-made for opera, writes HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA sweeps the Canberra arts scene in this week's Arts in the City column.
HELEN MUSA reviews the Blamey St Big Band as it Swings Disney at the Harmonie German Club.
The ACT’s indigenous arts sector has been boosted with the appointment of a reference group to establish the new ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Space at the Kingston Arts Precinct.
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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