Contesting the oft-repeated phrase that "women aren't funny", a group of Canberra comedians are taking the stage together for the Canberra Comedy Festival with a menacing-sounding show called Why Women Kill… at Comedy.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Fyshwick artist Margaret Hadfield has carried off the $6000 SOHO Art Prize for 2025, reports HELEN MUSA.
One of Canberra's most flamboyant personalities is about to bid farewell to her adopted home. Arts editor and friend HELEN MUSA salutes Coralie Wood on last time.
Landscape architect, environmental educator and host of ABC TV’s Gardening Australia, Costa Georgiadis, has been chosen from 25 Australians as the subject of the National Portrait Gallery’s next commission.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that getting to stage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a dream come true for Mockingbird Theatre Company director Chris Baldock.
The arts and lots of them feature in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column, a weekly wrap of what's on where and when.
"I get itchy feet when I'm home too long," country singer Kasey Chambers tells HELEN MUSA ahead of her 30-date Backbone national tour, which includes Canberra.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's Arts in the City column looking at what's making news around the local arts scene this week.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Essor a solo dance performance by Yolanda Lowatta at the National Portrait Gallery.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Canberra Philharmonic Society's colourful production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
"With slapstick and burlesque to the fore, it was less the music that got the applause than the horseplay. Perhaps that was the idea." HELEN MUSA reviews Candide at the Sydney Opera House.
Quiet Skies, a major glass installation by artist Annette Blair, is permanently displayed in the newly opened main entrance of the Australian War Memorial.
