ACT Hub promises a ‘powerful and eclectic’ season
Cementing its reputation as one of the go-to places for play watching, ACT Hub announced its fifth annual season at a celebratory event at the Old Causeway Hall in Kingston on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
An unusual charcoal portrait of the artist’s mother and uncle in their youth has won Surya Bajracharya the $10,000 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, it was announced at the M16 galleries in Griffith on Thursday.
Jane Harper is credited with creating a new sub-genre of crime fiction, Australian rural noir, writes book reviewer ANNA CREER.
"The play God takes on an intriguing courtroom form as it pulls the audience into considering the ethics of assisted dying," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Music
School of Music ‘saved’, but we’ve been there before
Arts editor HELEN MUSA says People Power seems to have triumphed in bringing the School of Music back from the brink, but the devil is often in the detail when it comes to implementation.
Music
Busking champ Ruby has high hopes for Tamworth
“Honestly, if you told eight-year-old Ruby that she would be doing this right now, she wouldn’t believe you,” says Ruby Holden, of Queanbeyan, who has won a national busking title.
Exhibitions
Museum goes Gangnam style with its Korean Wave show
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews the National Museum's upcoming burst of K-pop – Hallyu: The Korean Wave.
A week of arts and entertainment events around Canberra all rolled into HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column...
At a chic ceremony in the Residence of France, ambassador Pierre-André Imbert awarded the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters to dance artist Elizabeth Cameron Dalman on Tuesday evening, reports HELEN MUSA.
BRIAN ROPE reviews unBECOMING, a photographic exhibition by Fernanda Pedroso.
Arts writer LEN POWER reports from the season launch of the Canberra Theatre Centre.
Music writer IAN McLEAN reports from the launch of the 2026 Canberra International Music Festival.
“This show is equal parts comedy, chaos, and blasphemy… The Exorcist meets Sesame Street, with more swearing. Perfect for December," says director Jarrad West, who is reviving the play Hand to God.
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens that disappeared in the early 1600s has been sold for $A4.1 million at an auction.
After astounding audiences in New York, Montreal and London, a video installation of Hollywood glamour and pop-culture makes its Australian debut in a Canberra-exclusive showing, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Tom Stoppard has "died peacefully at home" at the age of 88, United Agents says.
"Perhaps Stranger Things is so popular because of the way it represents total escape from the anxieties of the modern day," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"Here You Come Again is a must-see for Dolly Parton fans, as well as those seeking an evening of memorable musical theatre," writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
LEN POWER reviews the Phoenix Collective Quartet's concert entitled At the Grave of Beethoven.
