There are very few school teachers who live to see themselves immortalised in bricks and mortar, but Joe Woodward, director of The Daramalan Theatre Company (and CityNews theatre critic), is one of them, writes HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
As the Canberra Writers Festival opens with its extraordinary line-up of authors, few of them are quite so well known as Christos Tsiolkas, beloved, the festival tells us, "because of his provocations”. HELEN MUSA reports...
HELEN MUSA finds herself in the centre of silliness when she sits in on a rehearsal for Queanbeyan Players’ production, Nice Work If You Can Get It, coming up at The Q.
Music and comedy are a couple of artistic offerings for Halloween, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Canberra’s oldest art society, the Artists' Society of Canberra, launched its annual spring exhibition in fine style with about 400 artworks on display at the Fitters' Workshop in Kingston.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA clocks on for a shift at the Department of Responsible Adulting, a testing theatrical experience by Canberra Youth Theatre.
Barrina South has chosen a word from the language of her Barkindji ancestry in far western NSW — Makarra, meaning rain — for the title of her first poetry anthology, to be launched this weekend in Queanbeyan, where she lives.
Berin Denham and his partner Shell Abdoo have written an intensely personal musical, Only Everything, which opens this weekend... and there's a happy ending the audience won't see.
A live audiovisual experience created by Australian artist and composer Robin Fox continues the National Film and Sound Archive’s recent visual and audial attack upon our senses, in the best possible way.
The National Gallery of Australia has announced that the winner of its $60 million National Sculpture Garden Design Competition is the team CO-AP Holdings.
In her latest Arts in the City column, HELEN MUSA reports that Vince Jones is in town for an intimate evening of jazz.
Paul Capsis’ Canberra fans will doubtless be delighted by the weird characters he’ll be playing on stage at the Canberra Theatre soon in Peter and the Starcatcher, a spectacle bursting with 100 characters, music and technical wizardry.
