Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column capturing Canberra's vibrancy this week.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
The male Maratus spider may well be the sexiest insect in the world, if viewed properly, far sexier than the peacock after whom the tiny arachnid has been nicknamed, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's the latest Arts in the City column from HELEN MUSA.
"It’s playful stuff with a sensible Austen heroine at its centre who is surrounded by unsuitable suitors, a young and feckless sister, and a mother who wants her daughters married off." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Promise and Promiscuity.
"Although Scott Morrison’s presence hovers over the entire production and largely inspired it, this is a sophisticated work full of shifting perspectives." HELEN MUSA reviews Playback (Or, A Play About But Not Starring a Famous Politician).
"Audiences never seem to tire of the epic scale of its uplifting story nor of the glorious score in which every song is a classic." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Queanbeyan Players' new production of Les Miserables.
Here's the latest Artsweek column by arts editor HELEN MUSA on everything that's happening in and around Canberra for arts and entertainment lovers.
Playback is by Tom Glassey, a working journalist and on-and-off Press Gallery member, who has been developing the play through the Resident Street program, reports HELEN MUSA.
“No grand sets, no spectacle, just the truth behind the fairytales,” director Jarrad West promises of their “unplugged” version of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, reports HELEN MUSA.
From glass blowers to metal sculptors, the QPRC and Bendigo Bank 2026 Art Awards held on Saturday at The Q saw a record 87 entries competing across 12 prizes, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The show Promise and Promiscuity, described by the Irish Times as “a posthumous collaboration with Jane Austen”, is the brainchild of actor Penny Ashton, reports HELEN MUSA.
Alan Frederick Jessop, best known to Canberrans as the "Salvo Man", has died peacefully at Canberra Hospital. He was 95.
