There’s arts everywhere in this week “Arts in the City” column from arts editor HELEN MUSA. 

BREAD Revue is a comedy troupe formed last year by Rohan Pillutla and Synan Chohan, made up of around  25 young Canberrans performing  in uni-revue style. They’re following their debut production, “Mind the Crust” with “Mother Doughs Best – A Sketch Comedy Show,” at Belconnen Arts Centre on September 23. Profits go to local charity, Helping ACT. 

CHILD Players ACT has come up with a novel way to promote its coming production of “The Pirates of Penzance”, at Belconnen Community Theatre, September 22-29. They’ll be converting the stage into a pirate ship and holding a lunchtime event for ”International Talk (and Sing!) Like a Pirate Day” on September 19.

TEX Perkins is back playing the songs of Johnny Cash in “The Man In Black”. Canberra Theatre, September 24.

THE Royal Czech Ballet returns with “Sleeping Beauty”, Canberra Theatre, September 17-18. 

CANBERRA Strings’ performance of Tchaikovsky and Elgar String Serenades will be its final concert for 2023, but also marks the retirement of its leader, the eminent violinist Barbara Jane Gilby, former concertmaster of the Canberra and Tasmanian symphony orchestras. All Saints Anglican Church, Ainslie, September 17. 

UK lecturer Marie Conte-Helm will give an illustrated talk, “Dressed to Thrill: the Art of the Japanese Kimono”, for Canberra Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies at the National Library, September 19.

VICTOR Valdes and his Mariachi band of musicians from Chile, Vietnam, Colombia, Canada, Sweden, South Africa and Mexico will make a musical journey through Mexico and Latin America in “Viva Mexico” at The Street theatre, September 23.