Tuggeranong Arts Centre’s music program includes a series called CSO Down South, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s bite-sized and scaled-down concerts for that equally bite-sized and scaled-down venue, writes reviewer SARAH BYRNE.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: "It has an intense Juliet in Madeline Li and a Romeo with feeling in Ryan Hodson and they make a convincing couple."
"This was a cleverly programmed and very well played concert of baroque music by Italian and German composers of wonderful obscurity." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Apeiron Baroque.
"All in all, this was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon’s introduction to some of the gems of Cuban popular music, with Ayse Göknur Shanal’s luscious singing," writes reviewer NICK HORN.
"Canadian play The Drawer Boy is a good find. On an imaginative but spare set by Chris Baldock, drawn images of cows and a farm frame the kitchen of a house with a few secrets," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.