Cult-classic Malcolm movie celebrates 40 Years
Here's Artsweek – arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly look at what's on where and when.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
There’s a distinct feeling of homecoming surrounding the production of Nick Payne’s 2012 play Constellations, to be staged by Kelly Somes in mid-April, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reflects on the thumping success that was the weekend's National Folk Festival.
There is no more significant work of theatre for 2026 than Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, director Joe Woodward tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Music
British singer saluted for long service to the folk festival
Arts editor HELEN MUSA meets British folk singer Martyn Wyndham-Read, who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award the National Folk Festival.
Books
Technology aims to end the audiobook debate
The question of whether audiobooks count as reading is about to get more complicated thanks to a feature from a major tech firm.
Arts & Entertainment
Dark comedy through Sartre’s moral mirror
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Three middle-aged adults looking for an exciting new spark in an otherwise plain and tedious American existence are the characters in a new series that's turning heads, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
HELEN MUSA reports on a National Library exhibition that showcases the remarkable, decades-long efforts of the NT's Papunya community to record, preserve and sustain its language and culture.
"This quality, high-energy, fun and funny production of boy-band bangers and girl power was well deserving of the rowdy wolf whistles and enthusiastic standing ovation it received." SAMARA PURNELL's been to see & Juliet.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews the opening concert of the 60th National Folk Festival at Exhibition Park.
Female writers are currently dominating the Australian crime fiction scene, with more women writing crime, psychological thrillers, and domestic noir than men, writes reviewer ANNA CREER.
"Oedipus the King teeters between the realistic and the formal, or ritualistic, and it is here that Michael Smith as director may have gone a step too far," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
The Canberra Art Fair has been postponed from May to October, with organisers citing ongoing global uncertainty and public unease, reports HELEN MUSA.
Canberra-raised Leonard ("Lenny") Weiss will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra next week, becoming the first Australian ever to lead the ensemble at its home, Symphony Hall.
From folk music and Holy Week composition to poetry and literature, HELEN MUSA gets musical and more in her latest “Artsweek” column.
Former Narrabundah College student Leon Ford is playing Cassius in Bell Shakespeare's latest production of Julius Caesar, reports HELEN MUSA.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews end to end, an exhibition of the craft of Louis Grant, curated by Consuelo Cavaniglia.
When she hooks up by phone to Sabrina Live! star Nakita Clarke at home in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, HELEN MUSA gets more than she bargained for.
