THE Canberra Theatre's just cancelled staging of “Shrek”, was to have been the first Canberra gambit by Australia’s top producer of musicals, John Frost, since 1991.
The Queanbeyan Hive has been buzzing today (January 12) as composer and arts activist, Judith Clingan, conducts workshops and performances based on her music theatre version of “The Lorax”.
'Here I Am: Art by Great Women' is billed as 'a new festival celebrating women creatives' intended to bolster creative women and hold their work up to acclaim.
Shortis and Simpson are writing and rehearsing for two nights at the appropriately-named Contentious Character Winery in Wamboin, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA in her weekly Arts in the City column.
It's been more like a merry-go-round than an operatic gala for baritone Peter Coleman-Wright since he joined the fledgling National Opera company as artistic director in Canberra early this year.
Through a clever hook-up between ACT Historic Places and the Artists Society of Canberra, works by six artists from ASOC are on show in an online exhibition, 'Creating Lanyon'.
“One Man In His Time: John Bell and Shakespeare” will be coming to Canberra Theatre Centre, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA in her weekly Arts in the City column.