Folk festival unveils Easter program
At a lively gathering of the clans at BentSpoke BrewPub on Thursday, the National Folk Festival unveiled its 2026 Easter program, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts & Entertainment
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"Unfortunately, the rhythm of the piece was broken with long and unnecessary blackouts that jarred the flow of the story." JOE WOODWARD reviews La Souris Blanche (The White Mouse).
THAYER PREECE reviews Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody, a performance by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The Canberra Cabaret Festival is back for three nights, bringing together three distinctive voices for a celebration of music, storytelling and lived experience at the ACT Hub in Kingston, reports HELEN MUSA.
Exhibitions
Leonardo da Vinci… enjoying genius on a big scale
Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius, a huge immersive exhibition is coming to Canberra during the Enlighten Festival in a new outdoor setting and, it is said, some new content, ereports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts & Entertainment
Performance that’s part-rave, part-ritual
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest artsweek column dedicated to what's on where this coming week.
Update
The Godfather star Robert Duvall dies at 95
Tributes are pouring in for Robert Duvall, who played Tom Hagen in The Godfather and the napalm-loving colonel in Apocalypse Now, after his death at 95, reports BILL TROTT in Los Angeles.
When Canberra Rep lifts the curtain on its 2026 season, it does so with the company’s most-produced modern playwright, reports HELEN MUSA.
"In Regeneration Glyphs, the artist brings together not only a selection of past works that provide a continuum of ideas and images, but also exciting recent work that promises new beginnings," writes reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
Canberra’s secondary colleges have long produced exceptional theatre talent, and this tradition continues in the case of recent Year 12 graduate from Narrabundah College, Wajanoah Donohue, reports HELEN MUSA.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews the Canberra Bach Ensemble's performance of Christe, du Lamm Gottes – the music of JS Bach.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Homage to Kurtag, a performance by soprano Amy Moore and pianist Edward Neeman.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Accordion Dances, the first of this year’s Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Series.
LEN POWER previews The Hurt Business, an exhibition by Omar Musa of lithographs and woodcuts that "ricochets between dark humour and poetry".
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Ats in the City column.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Sharing Stories Arts Exchange exhibition at the ANU School of Art & Design.
SAM WILSON reviews Beethoven and Beyond, a performance by pianists Bernice Chua and Joshua Han.
As The Simpsons reaches its 800-episode milestone, its creators reflect on its path to becoming a global institution that was paved with early outrage.
The Louvre museum in Paris is in the news once again, this time after a gallery was damaged by flooding.
