An emerging local author, Andra Putnis, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Canberra Writers Festival for 2025, after the surprise departure of Beejay Silcox from the role.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Here's the latest Artsweek column, arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly look at what happening where and when in the local arts and entertainment scene.
"They've sold out in Wagga Wagga, they've added a new show in Fremantle and they’re soon coming to The Q – The Waifs are among the real stayers in Australia's folk scene," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
When John Waters takes the stage at The Street Theatre alongside Stewart D’Arrietta and band in Radio Luxembourg, he’ll be very familiar to Canberra audiences.
“Every director has a list of shows that they’d like to see happen and I've got that list,” says Kelda McManus, director of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Canberra Philharmonic Society.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest potpourri of local arts news. It's her Arts in the City column.
SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews the National Gallery's parallel exhibitions, Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar.
"Getting up close to these artworks may relieve the fear of snakes for some people. It might also show the beauty found in these earthly creatures, which is clearly on display," writes art reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
Arts, arts and more arts, it's HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column.
One of the greatest pleasures of being a newspaper journalist is to work alongside press photographers – quick-minded and empathetic, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Director Ed Wightman has gone back to the original 1960 novel of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and devised a stage play simply called Baby Jane, reports HELEN MUSA.
The People’s Princess takes centre stage in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, premiering at the Street Theatre soon, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
