Silliness and hit songs, nice work, if you can get it
HELEN MUSA finds herself in the centre of silliness when she sits in on a rehearsal for Queanbeyan Players’ production, Nice Work If You Can Get It, coming up at The Q.
Arts & Entertainment
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Music and comedy are a couple of artistic offerings for Halloween, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Canberra’s oldest art society, the Artists' Society of Canberra, launched its annual spring exhibition in fine style with about 400 artworks on display at the Fitters' Workshop in Kingston.
Nostalgia is an incredibly powerful force, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Books
Amazing Jack Iverson, my dad and me
ROSS FITZGERALD reviews a book that reveals the rise of Australia’s great spin bowler, Jack Iverson, the role of his sportsman father, Bill (“Long Tom”) Fitzgerald and their time at the "famous old" Brighton Cricket Club.
Music
Champagne performance from a skilful guitarist
"Sometimes his dynamic, energetic music encompassed his entire body and he danced with his guitar around the stage." CASSIDY RICHENS reviews Daniel Champagne's performance at The Street.
Musical Theatre
Clever comment on the mores of modern living
"In this first iteration, Only Everything offers much to enjoy as an evening of entertaining and pleasingly performed musical theatre. However, it also feels like a work in progress." writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
"This was an interesting concert, combining the four violin concertos of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, written around 250 years later," writes music reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA clocks on for a shift at the Department of Responsible Adulting, a testing theatrical experience by Canberra Youth Theatre.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews the Elemental, the QL2 Dance Chaos Project 2024.
Barrina South has chosen a word from the language of her Barkindji ancestry in far western NSW — Makarra, meaning rain — for the title of her first poetry anthology, to be launched this weekend in Queanbeyan, where she lives.
Celebrated detective Vera Stanhope has a new case. Book reviewer ANNA CREER says it's "a classic Vera story set against the wild, ancient landscape of Northumbria".
Berin Denham and his partner Shell Abdoo have written an intensely personal musical, Only Everything, which opens this weekend... and there's a happy ending the audience won't see.
A live audiovisual experience created by Australian artist and composer Robin Fox continues the National Film and Sound Archive’s recent visual and audial attack upon our senses, in the best possible way.
The National Gallery of Australia has announced that the winner of its $60 million National Sculpture Garden Design Competition is the team CO-AP Holdings.
"Romanian-born pianist Alexandra Dariescu's... poise and charm suffused the room even before her fingers touched the keyboard.," writes THAYER PREECE in her first review for CityNews.
In her latest Arts in the City column, HELEN MUSA reports that Vince Jones is in town for an intimate evening of jazz.
The final season of The Wharf Revue opens in Canberra lat this month. HELEN MUSA talks with member Phillip Scott.
"This once-in-a-lifetime experience was as good as I hoped it could be." ROB KENNEDY reviews Herbie Hancock's Canberra Theatre concert.
