Ida to perform a rare musical treat
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"If you were made to study it in school or if you simply enjoy the play, this production won’t disappoint. There are elements as good as you will get anywhere." JOE WOODWARD reviews Bell Shakespeare's production of Julius Caesar.
"These musicians are exceptional... artists of professional standard, playing challenging music at an advanced level." SARAH BYRNE reviews the Australian Youth Orchestra's Voyage of Discovery concert.
Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL explains how a 20-second very viral meme of actor Jon Hamm dancing came from the underrated show Your Friends and Neighbours that's lit up the show's second season.
Art
Epic battle over Epic Country as NGA exhibition opens
As the exhibition at the centre of "white hands on black art" allegations opens, the damage wrought on an Aboriginal-run art collective becomes clear.
Art
Art controversy in court and on national gallery walls
The Ngura Pulka exhibition is finally opening at the National Gallery of Australia, following a three-year delay because of allegations of interference.
Music
Peelman taks the Art Song chair
An uncomfortable changing of the guard has taken place at Art Song Canberra, with chair Ditta Zizi stepping down and former Canberra International Music Festival director Roland Peelman voted in as president, reports HELEN MUSA.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews John Brack x Noel McKenna: A face in the mirror, at the National Portrait Gallery.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews end to end – Collected Works: from the Australian Pottery Collection, Bemboka, which is showing at the Watson Arts Centre.
Here's Artsweek – arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly look at what's on where and when.
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.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA meets British folk singer Martyn Wyndham-Read, who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award the National Folk Festival.
The question of whether audiobooks count as reading is about to get more complicated thanks to a feature from a major tech firm.
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.
