With the Oriana Chorale’s 50th anniversary coming up in a few years, it has announced its inaugural Emerging Composer in Residence Program open to all Australian citizens who are emerging composers, reports HELEN MUSA.
"The director’s choice to ignore the satire in this show resulted in the cast playing too broadly to try and make the script funny," writes reviewer LEN POWER of a new production of The Little Shop of Horrors.
"There were no prizes for guessing why so many people had packed into Wesley Music Centre, including an impressive turnout from the Korean community and their children, perhaps themselves budding pianists." HELEN MUSA reviews Jeonghwan Kim.
In a production likely to be dubbed "So Frenchy, So Chic”, Mockingbird Theatre has embarked upon a production of French playwright Robert Thomas’ murder mystery, 8 Femmes (8 Women) one of the most popular plays in France.
EM Forster’s seminal novel Howards End has been adapted many times including into film and more recently into a novel, but it has never been quite so originally reinterpreted as in The Inheritance, coming up at ACT Hub, writes HELEN MUSA.
Canberra’s literary community is reflecting on the contributions of publisher Stephen Matthews, founder of Ginninderra Press, who died under the Voluntary Assisted Dying program at his home in Port Adelaide on September 25. He was 78.