The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
More than 400 performances by young pianists from Canberra, interstate and overseas, will fill the Wesley Music Centre when the Australian National Eisteddfod's Piano competition returns from August 15 to 20, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Afternoon of the Harpies promises, or perhaps threatens, to be an exhibition of fantastical creatures, insect angels, carpets and luminescent fish-trap spaceships by two of the Canberra region's most provocative and adventurous artists.
Star Australian soprano Miriam Allan will return to Canberra next week with a Bach program that ranges from the moving to the comic, joined on stage by her father, baritone Christopher Allan, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Canberra troubadour and 2023 CityNews Artist of the Year Fred Smith will return to the Australian War Memorial with Unforgotten: Songs of Australians at War, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Michael Zavros has won the 2026 Archibald Prize People's Choice Award for his portrait Alex with his tefillin in the sea.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews veteran Bharatanatyam dancer Anandavalli's blindfolded performance as part of her central role in the Australian play The Jungle and the Sea at The Playhouse.
Two prominent First Nations fashion designers are heading out of Canberra later this week to Darwin to participate in the national showcase Country to Couture.
More than 30 choirs from Canberra and neighbouring states will gather at Snow Concert Hall in Canberra Grammar School on August 8 for the 72nd Australian National Eisteddfod Choirs Event.
A solo interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, an evening of poetry readings, and a 'Meet the Author', besides myriad theatre and concert performances, make up the latest Artsweek column by arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Inspired by the strength, resilience and many facets of a diamond, Liz Lea's new dance-cum-cabaret show, Diamonds, reflects on how we are shaped by experience, pressure and the determination to keep shining, reports HELEN MUSA.
