"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.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
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.
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.
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.
