‘Delightful’ concert captures the spirit of Christmas
"A most satisfied audience ventured home with the real spirit of Christmas firmly in their hearts and minds." IAN McLEAN reviews the 2025 Luminous Christmas concert.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
BILL STEPHENS remembers musical theatre star Toni Lamond, who died in Sydney on November 29. She was 93.
Why are there so many murder mysteries set at Christmas, asks book reviewer COLIN STEELE.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain.
Music
Mighty Canberra music champion dies at 94
Acknowledged for his boundless energy, drive and focus, Garth Lawrence Mansfield was a tireless advocate for music and the founding force behind the Wesley Music Centre in Forrest, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Craft
‘Anticipated’ exhibition showcases masters of craft
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews the 2025 Craft + Design Canberra Annual Members Exhibition.
“My father, who was in advertising, had heard of this new little industry that was just developing called market research and he made an appointment for me to go to a job interview." ROD HENSHAW talks to social psychologist Hugh Mackay.
Here's Artweek – arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest look at what's on where this week around the Canberra arts scene.
Busy artistic director of The Q in Queanbeyan, Jordan Best, has made life a little busier by casting herself in the double roles of Titania and Hippolyta in an upcoming revival of her outdoor A Midsummer Night’s Dream, writes HELEN MUSA.
Christmas fun and entertainment is looming large in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Colours of Earth, a performance by The Oriana Chorale.
Flying to the top of Netflix’s charts is this year’s umpteenth murder mystery series, The Beast in Me. But is it a cut above the rest, asks streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
