Essentially an all-singing, all-dancing revue built around songs popular in England during the '60s, “Downtown: The Mod Musical” is given a colourful, entertaining production by Queanbeyan Players, says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
"The success of this dance-drama built around the story of Gretel Burgess, lies in the powerful performance of Burgess, but its poignancy lies in the depiction of a mother-daughter relationship." HELEN MUSA reviews "A Stroke of Luck".
Canberra painter Kate Stevens has an extraordinarily beautiful suite of oil paintings on show at Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka until tomorrow, February 26, on an unlikely subject – bombed-out Gaza.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Opera Australia's lavish production of “Adriana Lecouvreur".
Canberra and Queanbeyan are in for a feast of Lennon and McCartney this weekend, writes HELEN MUSA in this week's "Artsday" column.
CON BOEKEL reviews the photographic exhibition “Salt” by Sammy Hawker. At the Mixing Room Gallery, Thor’s Hammer.
Canberra-raised musical star Tim Omaji will play the role of Ike Turner alongside Ruva Ngwena as Tina Turner in “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical,” opening at the Theatre Royal, Sydney in May.
You'd have to be a killjoy not to appreciate what Queanbeyan Players are up to with their production of “Downtown: The Mod Musical”, coming to Belconnen Community Theatre, writes HELEN MUSA.
The cream of young talent from Canberra and the broader region was on show at the weekend with the ANU School of Music's new cello mini-festival.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews who's what where in her latest "Arts in the City" column.
Members of Canberra's International Mother Language Movement will make the 10th annual walk around Lake Burley Griffin on February 26.
Italian director and pianist Rosetta Cucchi is in Sydney to make her directorial debut for Opera Australia with Francesco Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur”, and she’s known as a true original, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
