Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA with her latest Artsweek column on all that's happening this week in Canberra's arts and entertainment scene.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Canberra's theatre community is mourning the sudden death of actor, town crier and Guinness World Record holder Joseph "Joe" McGrail-Bateup, who died at his Gordon home on July 31. He was 58, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The late Canberra musician Michael Sollis will be posthumously honoured with the ACT's State and Territory Luminary Award at the 2026 Art Music Awards in Port Melbourne on Wednesday, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
More than 400 performances by young pianists from Canberra, interstate and overseas, will fill the Wesley Music Centre when the Australian National Eisteddfod's Piano competition returns from August 15 to 20, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Afternoon of the Harpies promises, or perhaps threatens, to be an exhibition of fantastical creatures, insect angels, carpets and luminescent fish-trap spaceships by two of the Canberra region's most provocative and adventurous artists.
Star Australian soprano Miriam Allan will return to Canberra next week with a Bach program that ranges from the moving to the comic, joined on stage by her father, baritone Christopher Allan, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Canberra troubadour and 2023 CityNews Artist of the Year Fred Smith will return to the Australian War Memorial with Unforgotten: Songs of Australians at War, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Michael Zavros has won the 2026 Archibald Prize People's Choice Award for his portrait Alex with his tefillin in the sea.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews veteran Bharatanatyam dancer Anandavalli's blindfolded performance as part of her central role in the Australian play The Jungle and the Sea at The Playhouse.
Two prominent First Nations fashion designers are heading out of Canberra later this week to Darwin to participate in the national showcase Country to Couture.
