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A fascinating pilot program unfolded at The Street Theatre on Wednesday night, using interactive theatre to probe one of the most contentious issues facing young people: online misogyny and the influence of the manosphere.
Canberra glass artist Akie Haga has won the 2026 People's Choice Award in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, with visitors at the South Australian Museum voting overwhelmingly for her luminous glass sculpture, Soft Echo.
Canberra Theatre Centre has joined forces with three of Australia's leading regional performing arts organisations in a landmark partnership designed to create more large scale Australian theatre.
Leading her latest column of new books, ANNA CREER reviews a biography of Alexander the Great, a man its author says, "spent his whole life unsure of who he really was”.
An upcoming documentary on Julie Andrews will explore the resilience, heartbreak and reinvention behind the screen legend's meteoric rise.
Journalist Neil Lade has spent decades telling other people's stories, but arts editor HELEN MUSA discovers his lifelong passion has always been painting, drawing and creating surreal worlds of his own.
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has scored a major victory after the star of her directorial debut accused her of defamation.
At the age of 36, Creswick feels he is facing middle age and, just as he did with his fatherhood show, he's been out interviewing people, this time a carefully selected group of senior artists, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA with her latest Artsweek column, featuring fundraisers and film festivals.
One of the world's most celebrated chamber ensembles, the Sitkovetsky Trio, will make its Canberra debut at Snow Concert Hall on August 2, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
What began as Henry Lawson's tale of an unnamed bushwoman defending her children from danger has become a play, a novel, a film and now, an opera, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
"Given the huge amount of attention from clips of his final flight circulating online in recent years it’s surprising it’s taken this long to turn the 'Sky King's' story into a documentary," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"This delightfully absurd comedy is satirical, poking fun at Cold War paranoia, the joys of quiche as well as American society and attitudes of the 1950s," writes reviewer LEN POWER.
The Rolling Stones' 25th studio album Foreign Tongues features guest contributions from Paul McCartney, The Cure's Robert Smith and more.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Kerosene, a powerful monologue about growing up and the fires within, performed by actor Winsome Ogilvie and directed by Lachlan Houen.
A pianist who lost a court fight against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is filling concert halls on his own independent tour.
A new compilation to be released in September will bring together a range of unreleased material by David Bowie.
NightFest will transform Commonwealth Park into a spectacular after-dark experience, it has been announced, combining live music, illuminated gardens, entertainment, food and family-friendly activities as part of Floriade.
