AN exceptional Canberra actor-playwright was presented with the Helen Tsongas Award for excellence in acting by Canberra Theatre director Alex Budd at the ACT Arts Awards tonight.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Rock, carols and conductors... HELEN MUSA's got the arts covered in this week's Arts in the City column.
"CityNews" musical theatre reviewer BILL STEPHENS was for some years the Australian correspondent for the American magazine, "Everything Sondheim".
THE winner of the 2021 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize is Catherine O'Donnell, for her charcoal-on-paper drawing, “Cowdrey St Window".
CANBERRA’S WildBear Entertainment has been named winner of the Creative Industries Award by Trade Minister Dan Tehan at the 59th Australian Export Awards.
CANBERRA Symphony Orchestra has decided to cancel the 2021 Summer Prom, calculating that even if the weather abates it is extremely unlikely that the conditions will be safe in time for the event on December 4.
Shortis and Simpson put the focus on Keith Potger.
CANBERRA rapper Genesis Owusu has won four trophies, including Album of the Year, at the 2021 ARIA Awards for his debut “Smiling With No Teeth.”
CANBERRA’S Fiona Victoria Hopkins has won the bronze medal in the main professional finals of the World Monologue Games last night.
Hot on last night’s news that Kirsty Zane had won a CAPO grant to attend a professional reading of a screenplay in the US, an email has arrived from Zane, already in America, with news her screenplay has picked up awards.
IN an intimate ceremony at Canberra Contemporary Art Space tonight (November 24), the Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation’s most prestigious award was presented to livewire composer and musician Michael Sollis.
“SHAKESPEARE to Winehouse” is the catchy name of a new 80-strong exhibition bound for Canberra from the National Portrait Gallery London in March.
