Canberra Repertory is about to embark on its most ambitious show of the 2026 season, The Glass Menagerie, and it has a world expert on Tennessee Williams at the helm of the production, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
A long-running environmental art award exhibition was unveiled on Sunday at the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery where the major prize of the day went to Sophie Baker for an impressionistic interpretation of Lake Ginninderra.
Billed as "a tasty recipe of hysterical laughs, sexual innuendos, unsuccessful repressions and delicious discoveries", the play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche is coming to ACT Hub, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA has filed her latest Arts in the City column.
Members of Canberra’s artistic, academic and diplomatic communities have been saddened to hear of the death on Monday of diplomat, scholar and Renaissance man Kyle Ralph Wilson. He was 76.
"The vast combined ensemble was rewarded by a long and largely standing ovation from the rapt audience." SARAH BYRNE reviews a performance of Carmina Burana by the National Capital Orchestra with the Canberra Choral Society.
The Marion Halligan Award, which recognises a work demonstrating uniqueness and literary excellence that transcends genre, has been awarded to The Dingo's Noctuary, an illustrated verse novel by Judith Nangala Crispin.
"The National Gallery is offering a rare opportunity to see the complete cycle of 20 monumental tapestries about St Francis by Arthur Boyd. But aficionados may be shocked at Boyd's take on the gentle saint," says HELEN MUSA.
Here's the latest Artsweek column by arts editor HELEN MUSA
Sydney Fringe hit Gia Ophelia, written by playwright Grace Wilson and directed by Canberra-born Jo Bradley, is coming to Canberra for a limited season at the Courtyard Studio.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA has filed her latest Arts in the City column.
A new theatre company, directed by Isaiah Prichard, is mounting a production of Albert Camus’s rarely performed Caligula. Arts editor HELEN MUSA has the story.
