If you’re travellin’ in the north country fair…
“Girl From the North Country”... a play with music and the arrangements of Dylan's musical pieces are not always what you’d expect.
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Reviewer BILL STEPHENS finds "Jagged Little Pill" to be a "brilliant production, which despite its challenging, often confronting content, manages to end, if not happily, certainly on an optimistic note."
Reviewer LEN POWER shares his delight with an original musical created by the participants aged 7 to 13 years.
A BUNCH of talented kids are about to stage an original musical, a fun story with a moral twist.
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A local salute to the genius of Sondheim
"CityNews" musical theatre reviewer BILL STEPHENS was for some years the Australian correspondent for the American magazine, "Everything Sondheim".
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‘Diana’ musical streaming ahead of Broadway debut
“Diana: The Musical” is coming to Netflix soon, reports HELEN MUSA.
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Opening night cast give a quality performance
Given the quality of the opening night cast and performance, there is a strong temptation to attend other performances to experience the various interpretations, writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS of "Carmen".
The blood-letting in this production is quite restrained. It was a wise choice, allowing us to use our imaginations on the details instead, writes reviewer LEN POWER.
Mezzo soprano Angela Hogan plays Carmen in a new production updated from the 1870s to Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s socially conservative 1950s Spain.
“THE Owl and the Pussycat” has always been one of my very favourite poems, but I never thought I’d see it as an opera," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
In a high-camp assault on conventional good taste, the Hayes Theatre Co will soon be coming to Canberra from Sydney with a production of “American Psycho: The Musical”.
"Kiss Me Kate" at The Q gets the thumbs up from reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
“Come From Away” is heart-warming entertainment in spades presented in an upmarket performance style that obviously resonated with the audience, says reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Director Michael Moore loves “Kiss Me, Kate” because it represents the golden era of musicals, but he also sees it as an opportunity to bring it into the 21st century.
It was message understood as Canberra’s first all transgender original musical opened its season.
Free Rain Theatre has assembled an outstanding cast of experienced local musical theatre performers for this production of "Mamma Mia!", writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
There's a buzz around the national capital and, it's hoped, the nation, with news that Canberra-based theatre guide and ticketing platform, Stagecenta, has released a theatre-specific app.
What's what and who's who in the arts this week? Here's HELEN MUSA's weekly "Arts in the City" column.
An ill-judged April Fool’s email has sent shock waves around the local musical theatre community, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
