Tracy Letts’ Tony and Pulitzer-winning play August: Osage County is one of the great theatrical warhorses of our time, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
With four characters, a piano, and an unassuming story about normal people going about their lives in New York, the musical Ordinary Days has got to be by Stephen Sondheim, right? Wrong, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
One man in his time plays many parts, The Bard once said, but one role Bell Shakespeare director Peter Evans won’t play is that of an actor, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA reports on arts news and performances in her latest Arts in the City column.
Canberra Connexion Big Band members are taking an experimental leap into the world of video gaming in their next concert, reports HELEN MUSA.
"In an all-Beethoven concert by Selby and Friends, they performed three works that illustrated the development of his musical style," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
"Far from being a series of comedy routines, it is essentially a reflection on what it is to be a musician, full of very serious, quiet moments." HELEN MUSA reviews a performance by American cellist and self-styled clown Karen Hall.
The National Film and Sound Archive’s show Ghost Trees is a moving (yes, it moves) exhibit that has to be seen and experienced in the comfort of a beanbag, reports HELEN MUSA.
Thirty-seven -year-old Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček will be at the Snow Concert Hall on Monday as the second of four artists performing in its Virtuoso Piano Master Series.
In a busy week of theatre openings For Canberra next week, it would have been easy to have missed the announcement that the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production play English, will open at The Playhouse on September 5, reports HELEN MUSA.
"It would be a crime to miss it," they're saying of the new production of Chicago heading to Canberra Theatre in September, reports HELEN MUSA.
Another busy week looms on the Canberra arts scene. HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column has it all...
