Highly successful portrayal of play’s frightened hopelessness
ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews Canberra Rep's production of Lord of the Flies.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
BRIAN ROPE reviews the work of photographer Eva van Gorsel, part of the Emotional Landscapes I exhibition at ANCA Gallery.
CON BOEKEL reviews the 2024 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
"Newman’s special skill was in the refined, almost silent moments of bowing, whole Abdiel’s forte was dramatic flair and virtuosic keying." HELEN MUSA reviews The Spirit of Youth concert at the Belgian embassy.
Exhibitions
Library looks at hopes and fears of migrants
The newest major show opening in the National Library's refurbished exhibition galleries today is one everyone can relate to – a survey of the library’s material relating to migrants, and aren’t we all migrants, asks arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Books
Books reveal threads of Jane Austen’s life
Reviewer ANNA CREER looks at three new books centred on different insights of the life of English author Jane Austen.
Music
Opera of Hamlet was Shakespeare worn with a difference
"Brett Dean’s Hamlet is a grim, purposeful version of the world’s most famous play – make no mistake, this is a mighty musical achievement." HELEN MUSA reviews Opera Australia's production of Hamlet.
"The production of Mary Stuart provides an opportunity to experience something of the very essence of power play and how it makes for exciting and challenging theatre," says reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
One of the joys of the international film festivals is the experience of a different way of life and the Scandinavian Film festival’s screening of The Tundra Within Me is a perfect example, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Canberra’s QL2 Dance has been invited by the Australian embassy in Bangkok to perform as part of a large-scale event to celebrate the birthday of Thailand’s King at the weekend.
First Nation artist Tony Albert has been appointed artistic director of the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial, After The Rain, to open at the National Gallery of Australia in December 2025.
Some Like it Marilyn is Canberra actor-producer Lexi Sekuless’ stage show about Marilyn Monroe's life on the screen, and if the title sounds familiar, it is, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rolls out a week's worth of arts events, shows and cinema in her latest Arts in the City Column.
David Reedy, one of the most influential figures in the local opera scene, died in a Canberra aged-care facility on July 19.
In this retrospective exhibition, audiences are given little tasters of Nancy Tingey's work since 1963, including the pleasure of being able to leaf through her diaries, workbooks, albums and journals since this time.
After three years of presenting contemporary twists on the classics, The Training Ground ballet ensemble in Canberra is taking a leap into a more "conceptual" kind of ballet, based on a true-crime episode.
From big bands to big choirs and big disappointments, HELEN MUSA'S Arts in the City column's got it all.
The multi-award-winning Australian author, poet and rapper Omar Musa and the internationally renowned American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts Musa are bringing a dramatic seafaring monologue to the stage in Queanbeyan.
"This was not so much a concert, but a combination of short pieces of music, projected video and text all put together around the theme of the world under threat of climate change," writes reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD.
