“It's ‘Twelve Angry Men’ – with teenagers,” Canberra Youth Theatre director Luke Rogers says of Dawn King’s “The Trials”, the hot-topic play to which he’s just snared the Australian performing rights.
When Geraldine Turner appears in Canberra in the 70th anniversary production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”, her character’s reputation as “the seriously unpleasant retired magistrate, Mrs Boyle” will precede her, writes HELEN MUSA.
One of the undisputed cultural treasures of the ACT is QL2 Dance, and the annual showcase by its Quantum Leap Dancers is coming up at The Playhouse, reports HELEN MUSA.
"This concert satisfied on all levels" writes reviewer HELEN MUSA of the Canberra International Music Festival performance by the Brodsky Quartet and William Barton.
"This is a play about family trauma that teases out the backgrounds of the characters exhaustively," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA in her review of Rep's production of "Crimes of the Heart".
Music from a composer collective of various Bachs, Mozarts and Haydns sounded like an impressive way to launch a music festival. And it was, says reviewer IAN McLEAN.