War tears a family apart in powerful epic
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews the nearly three hours long epic, The Jungle and the Sea. Directed by S Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack, the play offers a "deeply felt treatment" of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Liz Lea and her colleagues's "distinctively varied' performance in Diamond, the second part of a projected dance trilogy at The Q Theatre.
NICK HORN reviews Channels, a "perfectly balanced presentation of documentary film and music", celebrating the life, practice and philosophy of artists actively engaged with the creative process late in life, by Liam Creswick and team.
A life-sized sculpture of Canberra’s “Soup Kitchen Lady” Stasia Dabrowski has been unveiled in Garema Place, close to the spot where she fed people in need every Friday night for more than three decades.
Books
Love’s lumpy journey in two feel-good novels
Two ultimately feel-good novels from Matt Haig and Jessy Wu comprise COLIN STEELE's latest book reviews.
Reviews
Girl on the Train keeps suspense on track
Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel's adaptation and Chris Baldock's direction of the psychological thriller 'The Girl On The Train' leaves the audience with "an uncomfortable feeling", reviews LEN POWER.
Art
Sixth Canberra Art Biennial announced
The sixth Canberra Art Biennial, with a program of new commissions, public artworks and international collaborations, was announced at the Australian National Botanic Gardens on Thursday by ACT Arts Minister, Michael Pettersson.
Fred Smith's eyewitness records and video from the 2021 Kabul evacuation are at the heart of the Australian War Memorial's new Afghanistan gallery, unveiled five years after the fall, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Omar Musa, local author, visual artist, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan has won the 2026 Miles Franklin Award for his novel, Fierceland, it was announced at the State Library of NSW in Sydney on Wednesday evening.
A portrait celebrating the life and work of Gamilaroi Elder and bush food pioneer Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo was unveiled by the Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, on Tuesday at the National Portrait Gallery.
Virtuoso pianist Edward ‘Teddy’ Neeman will become part of a move to restore the reputation of one of Australia's most gifted composers when he performs Frederick Septimus Kelly's unfinished Sonata in F minor in Canberra next week.
As part of her service project for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program, ADELAIDE O'KEEFE, a year 9 student at Canberra Girls Grammar, has written a column on how artificial intelligence can affect the art community
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA with her latest Artsweek column on all that's happening this week in Canberra's arts and entertainment scene.
Canberra's theatre community is mourning the sudden death of actor, town crier and Guinness World Record holder Joseph "Joe" McGrail-Bateup, who died at his Gordon home on July 31. He was 58, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The late Canberra musician Michael Sollis will be posthumously honoured with the ACT's State and Territory Luminary Award at the 2026 Art Music Awards in Port Melbourne on Wednesday, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
In their first Australian visit and a Canberra debut at Snow Concert Hall, the storied Sitkovesky Trio delivered the Beethoven Piano Trio in D with "expression and panache", reviews SARAH BYRNE.
DAVID WHITBREAD reviews soprano Sonia Anfiloff and pianist Alan Hicks's "delightful" performance 'Eternity' for Art Song Canberra.
More than 400 performances by young pianists from Canberra, interstate and overseas, will fill the Wesley Music Centre when the Australian National Eisteddfod's Piano competition returns from August 15 to 20, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
