News of singer Christine Anu's return to Canberra to celebrate the life and legacy of soul diva Aretha Franklin leads art editor HELEN MUSA's weekly Arts in the City column.
Theatre producers Kelly Roberts and Grant Pegg have been focusing on musicals that haven’t been seen before in Canberra, as will be the case in the new production called “Assassins”, reports HELEN MUSA.
The National Film and Sound Archive is kicking off its new "Arc Out Loud" season tonight with a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Raw" comedian Isaac Butterfield returns to Canberra this weekend with an hour of sharp social observations of the society people live in today— the good, the bad and the ugly.
Armed with its idiosyncratic triple-barrelled theme “Power.Politics.Passion”, the fourth Canberra Writers Festival opens today (August 21) with a host of literary celebs and political writers descending on the nation’s capital.
Canberra has a lively new vocal group, the Australian Voice Collective, and they’re launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for their first concert, writes HELEN MUSA.
Shipped out during the Irish Famine with the promise of a better life in Australia but destined to become cheap domestic labour, these were the “Belfast Girls” of a play that bowled director Jordan Best over for the suffering, wit and the fortitude of its five protagonists.
Scratch the surface of almost any major department or organisation in Canberra and you’re bound to find a former member of Woden Valley Youth Choir running it.