Books take centre stage as Canberra Writers Festival turns 10, while film, dance and music add to the celebrations in arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest "Artsweek".
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that the "super-ambitious" Queanbeyan Players are embarking on a production of the musical Gypsy.
Performing in both English and French, singers Milko Foucault-Larché and Corinne Andrew are returning to The Street Theatre with Paris After Dark, billed as evoking the atmosphere of “a true Parisian soirée”, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Art meets science and environmental conservation in NatureArt Lab's sprawling exhibition at M16 Artspace, where 117 works reveal the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Youth Cabaret, a developing community theatre organisation, has chosen an ambitious cult horror musical for this year’s uproarious production The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Seven books have been shortlisted for the 2026 ACT Book of the Year Award, it has been announced by ACT Arts Minister, Michael Pettersson, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Canberra Short Film Festival returns this weekend with 114 films screening across eight days, bringing local, Australian and international filmmakers to two central Canberra venues from October 10 to 17, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Canberra audiences are in for a wild ride in the Playhouse as six distinctive productions bring independent creators to the stage in Canberra Theatre Centre's The Independents – Festival of New Works, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Known as the oldest Kabuki troupe in the Southern Hemisphere and founded in 1976 by teachers in the ANU Japan Centre, ANU’s Kabuki club, Za Kabuki, hits the stage at Canberra Rep Theatre, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
It was almost impossible to say into what genre Za Górami should be placed for the concert performed by the trio from London - Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas and Misha Mullov-Abbado, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Mirandi Riwoe’s Queanbeyan-connected novel, A Short History of Longans, will be prominent among the unexpected local and regional stories featured at the "biggest yet" 10th Canberra Writers Festival, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
