Mikelangelo, The Balkan Elvis, is the next subject of Shortis and Simpson's “Under The Influence” series, reports HELEN MUSA in this week's "Artsweek" column.
As Canberra's famous LGBTQI+ Qwire gears up for its 30th anniversary birthday concert "Singing Out with Pride," conductor Lachlan Snow is busy putting the choristers through their paces.
With a daring mix of old and new directorial faces, Canberra Rep’s 92nd season was launched on Friday evening before subscribers, members and old friends, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The “Come Alive” Festival of Museum Theatre picks up on Canberra's national collections, so that students from secondary schools and colleges visit a museum and select a character, an object or an event that inspires them to write a play.
Multi-talented performing artist, Marcel Cole likes to think of himself as a "crossline Canberran”. Crossline, that is, between Canberra and the rest of the world, and between singing, acting and dancing, writes HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA previews a “heartfelt work” that takes Shakespeare and the asylum-seeker experience in Australia and “mashes them together to make something new”.