Music amid the madding crowd
LEN POWER reviews the Australian Chamber Orchestra's concert, "The Crowd & I".
Arts & Entertainment
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"Mystery Road" cop Jay Swan gets his most sophisticated and cinematic outing of to date, says "Streaming" reviewer NICK OVERALL.
SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews "The Year of Magical Thinking" at The Q, Queanbeyan.
"Juniper" delivers satisfaction and comfort from watching two wildly disparate human beings resolving an improbable gap, writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Film
Movie review / ‘Bullet Train’
"Railway enthusiasts, don’t be misled by the title," warns film reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD in awarding half a star to "Bullet Train" and saying: "How other people will receive it I cannot foretell."
Music
‘Exemplary performance’ from Haydn ensemble
Music reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD congratulates the Haydn Ensemble for making the most of 'Eroica'– a piece, he says, that lacks variation in tonal colouring with limited instrumentation.
Arts & Entertainment
Artsday / Here come the highwaymen of song
What's on at the weekend? HELEN MUSA lists some of the highlights in today's "Artsday" column.
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan will leave the gallery in September to take up a new position as CEO of Arts Centre Melbourne, NPG chair Penny Fowler announced today (August 3).
News that year 4 student Ryan C has won a prize for his abstract interpretation of the Grand Canyon leads HELEN MUSA'S "Artsday" column.
Playwright Ruth Pieloor has turned her personal experience with her late mother into what she describes as “an oddly comic” realisation of dementia, reports HELEN MUSA.
The annual Latin American Film Festival is in preparation and this year it falls to the ambassador for Uruguay, Dianela Pi, to curate the free public event.
The Canberra Writers’ Festival is just around the corner and artistic director Jeanne Ryckmans is ready to face it with aplomb, despite three horror years behind her, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
In another big coup for Canberra Theatre boss Alex Budd, the triple Olivier Award-winning play, “Emilia” will make its Australian debut season from December 1 to 4.
The Canberra Blues Society is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. BELINDA STRAHORN takes look into the perennial appeal of this style of music.
HELEN MUSA reports from the last performance of “Il Trovatore” at Sydney Opera House over the weekend – but if the foot-stamping and cheering is anything to go, by this Opera Australia production will remain in the company’s repertoire.
After being postponed twice due to the covid pandemic, the “East Meets West” orchestral concert finally arrived at Llewellyn Hall.
How does offering a worse viewer experience, rather than a better one help Netflix restore its lost subscription base, wonders "Streaming" columnist NICK OVERALL.
Music critic GRAHAM McDONALD is already looking forward to the next concert by the Ellery String Quartet, so enjoyable was last night's.
"There was little chemistry between the characters of Romeo and Juliet and it didn't help that the balcony scene made it look as if Romeo was delivering his lines from the bottom of an empty swimming pool," says reviewer LEN POWER.
