A new book, Tulips in the Capital, is less about horticulture than about Canberra's thriving Dutch community and early Dutch migrants here, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews With Moth, an exhibition by Sue Peachey at Craft + Design Canberra.
A new production of Blithe Spirit by one of Canberra's brightest young directors, Lachlan Houen, is unashamedly setting out to make people laugh, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's HELEN MUSA's weekly Arts in the City, a quick wrap of making arts news around town.
"This outdoor performance attracted a bumper audience and suggests that there is a demand for Greek tragedy." Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Sophocles’ Antigone, by Greek Theatre Now, playing at the Botanic Gardens.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports from the opening performance of the National Folk Festival, which is off to a great start.
"Thom Roberts needs to be lauded for his ability to create instantly recognisable art that could be a whole new form of art in itself." ROB KENNEDY reviews The Immersive World of Thom Roberts.
In HELEN MUSA's weekly wrap of all things arts and entertainment around Canberra, she reveals news of a new autumn painting festival.
Sweet Charity, coming soon to The Q, is one of those tricky things, a "thoughtful" musical, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Fresh as a daisy even though it was written around 440-2 BC, one of the world’s most famous plays is being staged outdoors at the Australian National Botanic Gardens over Easter, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A 40-minute radio play dramatising the courtship of Charles and Effie Bean at Tuggeranong Homestead in 1920 will be broadcast on ArtSoundFM on Anzac Day.
Intelligence of a hitherto unannounced new theatre at the Australian War Memorial and the production chosen to launch it in July has stirred up a storm in Canberra’s theatre scene, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
