HELEN MUSA offers a comprehensive sweep of the pre-Christmas Canberra arts scene in her latest Artsweek column.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
So famous is Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, seen at the Canberra Theatre in June, that many people have forgotten it’s not his only work for the stage. ACT Hub’s end-of-year production of Tick, Tick… BOOM! will put paid to that view.
It's time to enjoy Christmas music, whether carols, pop songs playing in the shopping malls or deeply reflective classical music, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
There's Christmas entertainment a more in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
An exhibition focusing on an Australian artist’s a career of only 12 years before her death at the age of 30 opened on Saturday as the National Portrait Gallery’s main summer exhibition.
The performance year may be starting to slow, but HELEN MUSA's still got an Artsweek column full of entertaining events.
“Everybody needs to see an exhibition about Pompeii and apart from going to Pompeii itself, our exhibition is the next best thing,” National Museum curator Lily Withycombe tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews the upcoming season of American playwright Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice, where the ancient myth is shown from the female perspective.
Charles Dickens is often credited with having invented Christmas as we know it, so news that Canberra Theatre's next big production, Jack Maggs, is based on Dickens may have patrons quivering with Yuletide excitement, writes HELEN MUSA.
Dan Russell tried 120 violins before settling on a new one, from c1730, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Likening the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre’s 2025 theatre program to a patchwork quilt, The Q's artistic director Jordan Best promised it would be “always colourful, interesting and full of excitement”.
Phil Wilson, the man who cemented the National Folk Festival’s permanent place in Canberra, has died in Denpasar, Bali, aged 76, after complications from dengue fever.
