There is a certain magnificence to Opera Australia’s newly commissioned production of “Whiteley”, drawing to a close in an all-too-short season at the Sydney Opera House, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
There's been over-the-top hit shows such as “Noises Off” and “The Play that Goes Wrong”, but now Canberra REP is going a step further down the path of amateur mayhem with “The Art of Coarse Acting”, in which everything that can conceivably go wrong does.
Greek philosopher Aristotle is credited with exceptional foresight by his modern admirers, and now as part of the "South Side" open fire series, former journalist and now Canberran, Michael Smith, will host a provocative talk called “Aristotle Now”.
This weekend 40 regional music students will be taking part in orchestral tutorials with musicians from the Australian World Orchestra and the ANU School of Music in a four-day orchestra camp held in Goulburn and Canberra.
“I found that this sense of endless circles is true – there are no corners… Brasília is built on two axes and everything emanates from that," says arts writer Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak.