When Canberra Rep lifts the curtain on its 2026 season, it does so with the company’s most-produced modern playwright, reports HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Canberra’s secondary colleges have long produced exceptional theatre talent, and this tradition continues in the case of recent Year 12 graduate from Narrabundah College, Wajanoah Donohue, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Ats in the City column.
In a tremendous turnout, Canberra's visual arts community was seen heaving a collective sigh of relief at the opening of the new Grainger Gallery in Fyshwick.
The winner of the $10,000 2026 Bald Archy Prize was announced at the Canberra Potters Gallery in Watson Arts Centre on Thursday night.
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council has resolved to retain a mural of Zomi Frankcom that was painted by night on the Braidwood Council building by artist Luke Cornish, better-known as ELK.
It’ll be a case of “Kiss me, Kit” when Karen Vickery’s gender-bending production of The Taming of the Shrew fronts up to audiences in the seventh iteration of Lakespeare: Shakespeare by the Lakes VII, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Artweek column, a guide to what's on where this week.
For Jim Moginie, founding member, guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter for Midnight Oil, and a musician with many faces, there is no dampening his enthusiasm for good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll, reports HELEN MUSA.
Ngunnawal Elder Caroline Hughes is acutely aware of the importance of mother languages, telling HELEN MUSA that preserving and revitalising the Ngunnawal language is “helping us to breathe the breath, that’s what we say”.
The Street Theatre is hosting a contemporary play about wartime heroine Nancy Wake, known to the Gestapo as "The White Mouse" (La Souris Blanche, in French) and rightly claimed by NZ and Australia.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
