Some Like it Marilyn is Canberra actor-producer Lexi Sekuless’ stage show about Marilyn Monroe's life on the screen, and if the title sounds familiar, it is, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rolls out a week's worth of arts events, shows and cinema in her latest Arts in the City Column.
David Reedy, one of the most influential figures in the local opera scene, died in a Canberra aged-care facility on July 19.
After three years of presenting contemporary twists on the classics, The Training Ground ballet ensemble in Canberra is taking a leap into a more "conceptual" kind of ballet, based on a true-crime episode.
From big bands to big choirs and big disappointments, HELEN MUSA'S Arts in the City column's got it all.
"44 Sex Acts in One Week depicts the power of sex to lift up humankind or bring it to its knees," writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
TONY MAGEE reviews a vinyl pressing of Abba's Voyage album.
Little Wing Puppets is in town with an interactive puppet show for children and families.
HELEN MUSA wraps up a week of arts events – stage, screen, concert and exhibitions – in her latest Artsweek column.
In a rare theatrical event, Chaika Theatre is staging Friedrich Schiller's little-known play Mary Stuart, in which two mighty opposites – Queen Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots – take the stage together.
HELEN MUSA writes that in what could be controversial, in the Rep's upcoming production of Lord of the Flies the more sensitive, sacrificial characters –the wise Piggy and the innocent Simon – will be played by female actors acting as boys.
There's arts news good and not so good in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
