Charles Dickens is often credited with having invented Christmas as we know it, so news that Canberra Theatre's next big production, Jack Maggs, is based on Dickens may have patrons quivering with Yuletide excitement, writes HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Dan Russell tried 120 violins before settling on a new one, from c1730, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Likening the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre’s 2025 theatre program to a patchwork quilt, The Q's artistic director Jordan Best promised it would be “always colourful, interesting and full of excitement”.
Phil Wilson, the man who cemented the National Folk Festival’s permanent place in Canberra, has died in Denpasar, Bali, aged 76, after complications from dengue fever.
At a lively event onstage at the Causeway Hall in Kingston, ACT Hub unveiled an ambitious season of 11 productions and a mini-festival of plays on Thursday evening.
The comedy series, Austin, has been commissioned for a second season, with the titular central character and his family heading to Canberra.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Homecoming: An Opera Gala, an informal yet elegant recital by five gifted young singers from the Queensland Conservatorium.
Another great mix of arts and entertainment awaits Canberra and surrounds as HELEN MUSA reports in her latest Artsweek column.
Jordan Best's coming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream will also serve as the effective unveiling of the newly-landscaped Aunty Louise Brown Park directly outside The Q, writes HELEN MUSA.
When American soprano Rachel Mink steps up to perform for Art Song Canberra, the audience will sense quite a different flavour from the usual lieder repertoire, reports HELEN MUSA.
An eleventh-hour but temporary reprieve has quelled fears that that Thursday’s opening night of Canberra Rep's Christmas show, Bloody Murder, would be destroyed by the closure of its adjacent car park.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares an author's innovative way to raise money for a charity in this week's Arts in the City column.
