Indies take a curtain call for a big year
Canberra’s thriving independent theatre scene is currently the most active and vibrant it has been since the 1990s – and it’s not just confined to the inner city and suburbs.
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"Garner mixes the mundane with the profane, juxtaposing washing the dishes with the creativity of writing." COLIN STEELE reviews the collected diaries of "national treasure" Helen Garner.
The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, has sold one million copies worldwide.
Canberra-Queanbeyan designer and 3-D storyteller Caolán Mitchell has been awarded the Georgie Waterman Career Achievement Award for his impact and innovative approach to the unusual professional field of interpretation.
Music
Celebrated soprano to sing at Hawker carols
The annual Hawker Carols celebration on Christmas Eve will once again feature celebrated Australian soprano Lorina Gore.
Theatre
Q season promises year of ‘delicious’ entertainment
Patrons of The Q can comfortably expect a year of delicious entertainment if artistic director Jordan Best’s announcement of the 2026 theatre season on Monday evening was anything to go by.
Music
Flautist in the running for national award
Canberra flautist Sally Walker has been nominated for Limelight magazine’s Artist of the Year this year – the only Canberra artist and the only wind player in the line-up.
BRIAN ROPE reviews two complementary, but different photo exhibitions.
HELEN MUSA rounds up all sorts of arts news in her latest Art in the City column.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews the Emerging Choreographers Program 2025 by Quantum Leap Australia.
LEN POWER reviews A Handel Celebration, a performance by the Canberra Choral Society.
The Canberra-only exhibition, Hallyu! The Korean Wave is now open at the National Museum.
America – and indeed the world – is celebrating Dick Van Dyke, as the beloved entertainment icon reaches his 100th birthday.
Benoit Blanc has fast become something of a Sherlock Holmes for the streaming age, writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"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.
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.
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.
