In a change of pace, entertainer Paul McDermott, of Doug Anthony All Stars and Good News Week fame, is bringing his show Poems to Smith’s Alternative, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Coming soon to Queanbeyan, where the humble shopping trolley has been deified in song, is a show inspired by an equally iconic object – the wheelie bin, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's something different, a singing cook. HELEN MUSA has the details in her latest Arts in the City column.
BILL STEPHENS reviews the surprise musical package that was Berlin Electric, performed by tenor Brad Cooper and pianist Bev Kennedy.
"Guys & Dolls is rarely seen on a football stadium-sized arena, and it could hardly match the power and the passion of grand opera on which Handa Opera was based," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
The 29th Bald Archy Prize of $10,000 has gone to artist Phil Meatchem, for his work Despicable Ploy, it was announced at the Canberra Potters and Watson Art Centre on Friday.
Few people would've expected Fred Smith to be appearing as a poet at the launch of the National Folk Festival held on Wednesday but there he was – Canberra's most famous troubadour performing some truly dreadful rhymes of his own devising.
Arts galore in this week's Artsweek column from HELEN MUSA.
Coming up at the Mill Theatre is The Moors, by American playwright Jen Silverman, that was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's real letters yet it is, as one of the lead players in the show says, “so much fun”, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA has the antenna up and the latest Arts in the City column is a showcase of what she's heard.
Big-band buffs and video game enthusiasts will be heading for the Belconnen Community Centre at the end of the month for the second edition of Connexion Big Band’s video game music night, reports HELEN MUSA.
In another musical coup for Snow Concert Hall’s artistic director Ana de la Vega, a German orchestra with a unique conductor-less model is coming to Canberra next week.
