Dad’s Army actor Ian Lavender has died at the age of 77. Cast as Private Pike in 1968, aged just 22, he went on to appear in all 88 episodes. The series ran for nine years.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Serendipitously coinciding with the Mardi Gras season in Sydney, ACT Hub has its counterpart in a new production of the show, Queers.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA leads this week's Arts in the City column previewing 'a celebration of culture, the Lunar New Year and Asian-identifying artists'.
Music requiring acute listening and contemplation was centre-stage over the weekend at the 15th SoundOut festival, held at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery.
Nassim Soleimanpour’s Blank is a bit of a curiosity. Is it a play or an experiment? Is it an acting exercise, asks reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN
It was a standing ovation in more than one way for multi-skilled theatre enabler Rachel Thornton at the second annual Ovations Awards night held in the Hellenic Club on Friday.
On the eve of Friday's World Wetlands Day, Canberra’s NatureArt Lab natural history art school launched its annual tutors’ exhibition, “See What I See”, at the Old Barn in Pialligo.
The newest exhibition in the window on the square at Canberra Museum and Gallery has something for people of all ages, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The 28th Bald Archy Prize is up and running at Watson Arts Centre from Friday – and it has a new lease on life.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA gets into the swing of this week's busy Artsweek column. There's lots to see and do...
Appearing on concert stages across the world, pianist Korkmaz Can Sağlam has wowed audiences in many countries and in his native country, Turkiye. Now it was Canberra’s turn.
When iconoclast, actor, director and all-round outrageous personality Peter Batey died unexpectedly in 2019, he left an enduring gift of humour to Australians, the Bald Archy Prize, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
