"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.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
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.
LEN POWER reviews the debut performance of the Penta Harp Ensemble.
Director Karen Vickery, who is rehearsing Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s last play, The House of Bernarda Alba, believes he is "one of the great voices of the Spanish world in terms of literature, art and theatre."
A spectacular lyrebird costume designed by Sidney Nolan for the Australian Ballet was the centrepiece of the launch at Canberra Museum + Gallery of an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of his gift to the Australian people.
Artworks by Cézanne, Braque, Giacometti, Klee, Matisse and Picasso are coming from Berlin to the National Gallery of Australia this winter.
