The end is in sight for the disturbing Handmaids
This month brings an end to one of television's most disturbing dystopias, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
NICK HORN reviews Joyeux Anniversaire, a performance by Selby & Friends at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.
JOE WOODWARD reviews Bell Shakespeare's new production of Henry 5.
Melanie Hamrick has confirmed she's engaged to rock legend and Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger, after meeting 11 years ago.
Dance
The Mirror is a testament to what bodies can do
"Curtains are swept from side to side, revealing and sweeping away vignettes of the ensemble in human towers, tricks or an amusing subterfuge." SAMARA PURNELL reviews The Mirror, a physical theatre performance by Gravity & Other Myths.
Books
Of changing modern elites and modern irritations
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE settles on two interesting titles. One deals with the slowly changing face of the elites in Britain, the other a humorous listing of the good and bad of modern life.
Theatre
Salute to nurses launches memorial’s new theatre
A new play about decorated Australian nurse Vivian Bullwinkel will launch the Australian War Memorial’s new theatre in July.
Diversity with its companion quirkiness will be front and centre in this year’s National Folk Festival gathering at EPIC over Easter, reports HELEN MUSA.
The Canberra arts scene is really pumping this coming week, if HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column is any guide.
The National Gallery has been given a masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
Here's something different: an acrobatic troupe from Nairobi called the Black Blues Brothers, who HELEN MUSA, in her latest Arts in the City columns, describes as "showstopping".
The lead creator of Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People in Australia exhibition, Zhou Xiaoping, tells arts editor HELEN MUSA there are spiritual connections between the two cultures.
LEN POWER reviews the National Capital Orchestra's first concert for 2025, which was centred on Shostakovich.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Harmonic Curves: Romantic Piano, a "thought-provoking" performance by pianist Arnan Wiesel.
Omar Musa, visual artist, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, has won first and second prize in the 2024 Newcastle Short Story Award for his two stories, Langsat and Boogeyman.
"A gifted storyteller with a relaxed stream-of-consciousness style, all her stories were around food." BILL STEPHENS reviews Michelle Pearson's Comfort Food Cabaret.
IAN McLEAN reviews Angels & Serenades, a performance by Musica Da Camera Canberra, conducted by Brad Tham.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Days of Miracle and Wonder, performed by the project choir Coro under the direction of David Mackay.
There is perhaps no show in the last decade that has pushed the boundaries of television as boldly as Black Mirror, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
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