Through a migrant’s lens, home looks different
Two Chinese migrants return to their homeland with cameras in hand, capturing the strange territory between belonging and displacement, reviews CON BOEKEL.
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Arthur and Lucas Jussen proved why they are in demand around the world with an almost perfect program showcasing works for four hands on one piano, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews the local reboot of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's "Bombshells" by director Jordan Best’s production.
BILL STEPHENS reviews director Bradley McDowell and Canberra Philharmonic Society's newest iteration of the high popular 'Grease', turning it into a high-energy dance extravaganza, thereby avoiding some of the darker aspects of the script.
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Period instruments bring Beethoven to life
Zoltán Szabo, cello, and Nicholas Kennedy, piano, presented a recital featuring rare instruments from the ANU Historical Keyboard Collection, an opportunity "not to be missed", reviews LEN POWER.
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Glass takes many forms in impressive show
An impressive exhibition showing 18 of Australia's leading artists, 6 of whom are 'emerging', the 2026 Fuse Glass Prize is on at the ANU School of Art & Design, reviews MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.
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Portrait prize bows out with plenty to admire
BRIAN ROPE reviews the 20th and final National Photographic Portrait Prize with the gallery showing works by 30 selected finalists.
The Apeiron Baroque concert at the Wesley Uniting Church was a trip down the back streets and byways of early music, reviews GRAHAM McDONALD.
BILL STEPHENS reviews "La Stupenda: A Joan Sutherland Celebration" by Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House even as "natural successor" Jessica Pratt paid homage to one of opera's greatest voices, Dame Joan Sutherland.
Saplings is a "gentle youth theatre piece that probes the experiences of a group of young indigenous people struggling with an urban society that doesn’t seem to give them much", reviews ALANNA MACLEAN.
IAN McLEAN reviews the clever, witty and fast-paced musical theatre production - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change - takes its audience on a "fabulously entertaining rollercoaster of emotions with belly laughs aplenty".
ANNA CREER reviews Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart's new novel, which is set in the lonely remoteness of Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews craft exhibition at Cowra Regional Art Gallery curated by Peter Haynes and displaying works of the innovative Canberra textile artist Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser who passed away earlier this year.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews 'Move Me!' the latest exhibition by one of Canberra’s well known artists and a long established lecturer in painting at the ANU School of Art and Design, Elisa Crossing.
Having long admired Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Singers, reviewer DAVID WHITBREAD finds the quality of the Luminescence brand to be safe with the "excellent ensemble" of the latest concert - Luminescence Children's Choir.
IAN McLEAN reviews musician, diplomat and author Fred Smith's epic performance at the Australian War Memorial as part of the concert 'Unforgotten: Songs of Australians at War' and finds it "poignant, sobering, and reflective".
Musical adaptation Heathers satirises 1980s high-school films with an uneasy blend of comedy and cruelty that makes for disturbing viewing, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews American violinist Gary Levinson and pianist Magdalene Ho captivate a packed audience at Wesley Music Centre.
The artworks of poet and visual artist Judith Nangala Crispin and visual artist Stephen Harrison, both locals, combine to make one powerful exhibition, Afternoon of the Harpies, reviews ROB KENNEDY.
