Choir’s Christmas song cycle rolls over the world
It's time to enjoy Christmas music, whether carols, pop songs playing in the shopping malls or deeply reflective classical music, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts & Entertainment
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There's Christmas entertainment a more in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
"Executing this daring program with such flair and competence would have been beyond many community orchestras, but the National Capital Orchestra was up for the challenge, and delivered," writes music reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY offers a learned review of a new book likely to ruffle feathers as it pokes fun at the Australian legal profession.
Books
Fantasy authors set new books in Canberra
Two of Australia's leading fantasy writers, Isobelle Carmody and Garth Nix have made Canberra the location in their latest books, writes reviewer COLIN STEELE.
Music
Choir’s big Elijah – confident, accurate and enjoyable
LEN POWER reviews the Canberra Choral Society's performance of Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn.
Streaming
Blockbuster bout brings on other fights for Netflix
Young internet star beats up an old man for a cash grab but it's a sporting sensation, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
An exhibition focusing on an Australian artist’s a career of only 12 years before her death at the age of 30 opened on Saturday as the National Portrait Gallery’s main summer exhibition.
"Describing herself as a 'K-Mart Identifying Lesbian', she launched into a series of smart, sharp, wry, wise and hilarious observations about anything and everything." BILL STEPHENS reviews a cabaret performance by Jackie Loeb.
Entrepreneur Justin Sun has eaten a banana in Hong Kong after paying $US6.2 million for a piece of conceptual art featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall.
COLIN STEELE reviews a couple of biographies from British comedians Michael Palin and Bill Bailey.
"Sarah Ruhl’s acclaimed play accomplishes much in just about an hour. Its brevity demands an economy of expression that conveys immense emotional depth." ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews Eurydice, at the Mill Theatre.
The performance year may be starting to slow, but HELEN MUSA's still got an Artsweek column full of entertaining events.
Evie Hudson has amnesia. She forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control. Evie is the leading character in local author Emma Grey's second fictional novel Pictures of You.
“Everybody needs to see an exhibition about Pompeii and apart from going to Pompeii itself, our exhibition is the next best thing,” National Museum curator Lily Withycombe tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews the upcoming season of American playwright Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice, where the ancient myth is shown from the female perspective.
Visual art reviewer SOPHIA HALLOWAY takes a look at Speculative Materialism: Making for the Future, at Craft and Design Canberra, until December 14.
Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN says the new Aunty Louise Brown Park outside The Q turns out to be just the space for Echo Theatre’s lively take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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.
