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"It’s all delightfully silly, but remarkably, in all the threatening chaos, WS Gilbert’s story gets told... and Arthur Sullivan’s music is respected." BILL STEPHENS reviews the wickedly silly laugh fest that's The Pirates of Penzance.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Opera's Bad Girl, Sarahlouise Owens' one-woman performance recounting the remarkable life of Victorian Diva Anna Bishop.
Canberra comedians Jacquelyn Richards and Trish Hurley will be representing the Women's Room initiative at the Melbourne Comedy Festival next week with their new show, Punchline.
Arts here, arts there and arts everywhere! HELEN MUSA rounds up what's on where in her latest Artsweek column.
Louise Skačej has been named as the artist selected to create a public artwork honouring the late Stasia Dabrowski, Canberra’s Soup Kitchen Lady.
DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles on Canberrans with a story. This week he meets a familiar TV news face who's gone from writing fact to fiction.
JK Kazzi, who plays the title role of Bell Shakespeare's upcoming production of Henry 5, tells arts editor HELEN MUSA that he plans to expose the dark side of the role.
HELEN MUSA spins all around the local arts world. Here's Arts in the City, full of news of her latest circumnavigation.
A new streaming service offers a host of big movies and small-screen hits, posing questions about the future of a crowded market for on-demand viewing.
LEN POWER reviews Across Space and Time, a piano recital by Stuart Long of moving movie music.
"The ensemble’s dramatic approach to the work brought out a new experience of Mozart’s astonishing harmonic adventurism." NICK HORN reviews the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
"The applause grew and was sustained as the audience realised that they had just heard something quite remarkable." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Gesualdo Tenebrae, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers.
When it comes to television shows about murder investigations, sometimes it feels like everything has been done, but not everything, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
The new Viva Italia in Canberra Festival kicked off in fine style with its "night under the stars” by Lake Burley Griffin on Friday.
"David Bridie’s songs are observational, usually reflective, sometimes meditative, seeking the essential spirit of a scene or subject, perhaps in the same way a painter does," writes reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
"This was a very polished and impassioned performance of a brilliantly curated set of works, which saw our CSO step up yet again to further extend its reputation." Reviewer MICHAEL WILSON enjoyed the Canberra Symphony Orchestra.
Fyshwick artist Margaret Hadfield's her oil painting, #lestweforget@Wimbie Beach, has been announced as one of the 32 finalists in the 20th annual Gallipoli Art Prize, of which she was the inaugural winner in 2006.
After Christmas, book reviewer ANNA CREER started reading some of the remaining books on the review shelf and discovered four real gems.
"The Moors is a deranged romp through a world that echoes the Brontes," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
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![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
To read the full story and find out more about this fabulous local author and her latest novel, visit our website at citynews.com.au or click the link in our bio! 📚✒️
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