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Review / ‘Molly’s Game’ (MA) *** and a half

THE game is high-stakes poker, with a six-digit entry fee. And the game’s owner is a statuesque redhead who had been a Winter Olympics aspirant before a back-breaking accident. “Molly’s Game” is the directing debut […]

Review / ‘Father Figures’ (MA) No stars

THIS is cinematographer Lawrence Sher’s directing debut. Its writer Justin Malen’s third feature. The TV and feature film productions on which this pair have cut their teeth (not together) are best summarised as unmemorable potboilers. […]

Visiting musicians Sten Sandell (piano), and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums)

Arts / International line-up for 9th year of SoundOut

THIS is the 9th year of the annual “SoundOut” improvisational, free jazz and experimental music festival, running this weekend at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery. As previously reported, Richard Johnson, the award-winning musician and founder […]

Canberra artists punch above their weight in gongs

IN what seems to have been an exceedingly modest line-up of artists in the 2018 Australia Day honours lists, Canberra’s creators have punched well above their weight. Certainly, high-profile ballerina Lucette Aldous was honoured with […]

Arts / What’s on and where in Canberra this weekend

RICHARD Tognetti will lead the Australian Chamber Orchestra in a program that partners two 19th century greats, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, with the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s “Dark with Excessive Bright” double bass concerto and […]

Arts / Changes at the top for Musica Viva

AFTER almost two decades at the helm of Musica Viva, Mary Jo Capps and Carl Vine will step down from the company’s leadership in a gradual process. Chair of the 73-year-old chamber music performing […]

"Masterclass" director Adam Spreadbury-Maher… “Fingers crossed for it coming to London, we’re working on it.”

Arts / Adam gives Amanda a ‘Masterclass’

WHEN “CityNews” catches up with theatre director Adam Spreadbury-Maher, he’s just about to get on a plane from Melbourne to attend the West End premiere of Queanbeyan playwright Tommy Murphy’s play, “Strangers in Between”, after […]

Rachel Bond… a professional belly dancer and teacher from Sydney. Photo by Alma Sarhan

Arts / Belly dancing wiggles its way to the surface

THERE’s a booming underground Canberra belly dance scene and amidst the stalls, the talk and the food of this month’s National Multicultural Festival there’s space to bring it to the surface. That’s the view of […]

Author Trish Ollman... “Someone said to me, sex sells, and there was none in the book at all. I’m 65, I don’t write about stuff like that!” Photo by Kathryn Vukovljak

Trish puts a little steam into her writing life

WRITING and self-publishing a steamy novel set in Queensland’s tropical north has been “a dream come true”, says local author Trish Ollman. Trish will be signing copies of “Escape to Paradise Island” at Paperchain Bookshop […]

“We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”... coming to The Q. Photo by Clare Hawley.

Arts in the City / Hunting bears in Queanbeyan!

BRITISH director, Marc Parrett, is touring as the character Dad with his production of the children’s play “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”, which is based on the book written by Michael Rosen and illustrated […]

Review / Two craftspeople deliver ‘fun yet practical’ work

craft / “Michael Retter & Scott Mitchell”, Bungendore Wood Works Gallery, until February 27. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.

The Arcacia Quartet performing at the National Library. Photo by Peter Hislop

Review / Exceptional concert from one of the finest composers

Music / “Dombrovskis – Journeys into the Wild”, by Moya Henderson. The Acacia Quartet. At the National Library of Australia, February 28. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY

Review / ‘Sweet Country’ (MA) ****and a half

ON August 3, 1929, the “Northern Standard” reported the trial, in the Supreme Court of Central Australia at Darwin before Judge Mallam and a jury, of Wilberta Jack, charged with murdering Harry Henty. That report […]

Review / ‘I, Tonya’ (MA) ****

ANYBODY pursuing an obsession since age three and who by age 16 was sixth in the US, rising to national champion by age 19 and a leading international competitor before turning 21, is entitled to […]

Patricia Piccinini with her work “The welcome guest,” NGA.

Arts / What’s on and where in Canberra this weekend

THE 90+ piece St. Olaf Band from the US, conducted by Timothy Mahr, will join Geoff Grey and the Canberra Wind Symphony in a free concert co-ordinated through the US Embassy from 2.30pm at Llewellyn […]

Genevieve Jacobs... joining the music festival board. Photo by Samantha Hawker

Genevieve joins the music festival board

FORMER ABC radio presenter Genevieve Jacobs has joined the board of the Canberra International Music Festival. A dedicated volunteer and advocate for community engagement, Genevieve works with a wide range of organisations including the Tara […]

Arts / Rosie Batty portrait unveiled

DOMESTIC violence campaigner and 2015 Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty is the subject of the most recent portrait commission at the National Portrait Gallery. Ms Batty was on hand this morning with Scottish-born photographic […]

Lexi Sekuless (as Beatrice) and Duncan Driver (Benedick) in Shakespeare's most popular battle-of-the-sexes comedy "Much Ado About Nothing". Photo by Emily Hanna

Arts / ‘Lakespeare’ makes a comeback

A LONG-neglected Canberra tradition of summery Shakespeare by Lake Burley Griffin is about to be revived by an enterprising group of local creators. Self-styled impresario Taimus Werner-Gibbings and Shakespeare scholar Duncan Driver have been inspired […]

Arts / Welsh choreographer goes for ‘GOLD’

TWENTY-TWO members of the Canberra Dance Theatre’s GOLD (“growing old disgracefully”) company are marking its 40th anniversary by working with a renowned choreographer from Wales. Carol Brown is a freelance community dance artist, choreographer and […]

Choreographer Hannah Pengilly, left, teaches the title dance of “Foxes: The Musical”.

Arts / All singing, all dancing, all young

“WE’RE not too young to achieve the impossible” is the motto of Ribix Productions, one of the liveliest new theatre companies in Canberra. Founded almost two years ago by Shannon Parnell, now 18, and Rachel […]

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Review / ‘Molly’s Game’ (MA) *** and a half

Review / ‘Father Figures’ (MA) No stars

Arts / International line-up for 9th year of SoundOut

Canberra artists punch above their weight in gongs

Arts / What’s on and where in Canberra this weekend

Arts / Changes at the top for Musica Viva

Arts / Adam gives Amanda a ‘Masterclass’

Arts / Belly dancing wiggles its way to the surface

Trish puts a little steam into her writing life

Arts in the City / Hunting bears in Queanbeyan!

Review / Two craftspeople deliver ‘fun yet practical’ work

Review / Exceptional concert from one of the finest composers

Review / ‘Sweet Country’ (MA) ****and a half

Review / ‘I, Tonya’ (MA) ****

Arts / What’s on and where in Canberra this weekend

Genevieve joins the music festival board

Arts / Rosie Batty portrait unveiled

Arts / ‘Lakespeare’ makes a comeback

Arts / Welsh choreographer goes for ‘GOLD’

Arts / All singing, all dancing, all young

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