Any notion that the 2024 National Folk Festival will be a tame event was exploded when Shortis and Simpson burst into a round of the ditty, Bob Menzies’ Balls, the launch at Smiths Alternative on Wednesday morning.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Here's this week's Arts in the City column by HELEN MUSA.
Billy Bourchier’s is almost the perfect story about a Canberra boy made good, writes HELEN MUSA.
Adélaïde Ferrière, the winner of more than 15 international prizes, will be opening the Snow Concert Hall 2024 season on Friday.
The 29th CATs – Combined Area Theatre Awards – whizzed by at The Q on Sunday afternoon in what was reckoned to be the fastest such event ever, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews Canberra Philharmonic Society's latest production – Bring It On: The Musical.
Circus, songs and painting are the themes of HELEN MUSA's Arts in the City column this week.
SARAH EC BYRNE reviews an afternoon of chamber classics that opened the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's new season.
Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg continues his winning streak with the announcement at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s 56th Annual AWGIE Awards that he had won three prizes.
The ACT is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the country and the natural home for the International Mother Language Movement, which every year celebrates the UNESCO-designated Mother Language Day, writes HELEN MUSA.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA says Gary Starr's Greece Lightning is zany, over-the-top stuff, but one of the fascinating aspects was not so much Starr as his followers, in a theatre packed to the rafters with willing victims.
After a break of a year, Lakespeare, Shakespeare by the Lakes, is back in action with a rugby-themed production of King Henry V, reports HELEN MUSA.
