Holiday musical off to Madagascar
Director Nina Stevenson is at it again, with her company Pied Piper's school holiday production of Madagascar JR - A Musical Adventure, a family show with all the characters from the movie.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
A painting by Australian impressionist Arthur Streeton that was out of public view for more than a century has sold well above expectations for $1.875 million.
Two Canberra artists have scooped the pools in the 2024 Gallipoli Art Prize with the announcement that Luke Cornish has won the $20,000 first prize and Kate Stevens has won highly commended.
Karen Viggers latest novel, Sidelines, came from 14 years of being a soccer mom and the interesting things she would see in other watching parents, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Exhibitions
Feeling nature’s awe in the Temple of birds
The National Film And Sound Archive has opened a dramatic, moving exhibition of birds on huge screens in an audiovisual experience called Temple – “because it's like a temple of nature. You can feel the awe,” the artists say.
Arts & Entertainment
Prinnie’s back to sing the blues
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rounds up a week's worth of arts in her latest Artsweek column.
Musical Theatre
Chicago and all that jazz is coming to Canberra
The longest-running show currently playing on Broadway, Chicago, is coming to Canberra, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA scans the Canberra arts scene for this week's Arts in the City column.
Dance Week is always a joyous time in the Canberra arts scene and 2024 looks to be no exception, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Birth & Rebirth, a concert performed by James Monro, Sarah Zhu and Paul Nicolaou.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Prayers and Lamentations, a performance by The Oriana Chorale.
Now grown up, child actors and other Nickelodeon insiders have spoken out in what might be one of the year’s, if not the decade’s, most disturbing and talked about documentaries, reports streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"Heather Mitchell’s performance as the legendary US lawyer and judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is poetry in motion." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews RGB: Of Many, One.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews The Shoe-Horn Sonata, at The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick.
BILL STEPHENS reviews the musical Billy Elliot at The Q. He says it packs a punch physically and emotionally.
"The ensemble were magnificent. They were wonderfully supportive of the soloists but had an energy, colour, intensity and virtuosity of their own that had the audience mesmerised." ALPHA GREGORY reviews the Australian Haydn Ensemble.
"Karen Vickery’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull makes for a highly relatable and accessible text heightened by strong and, at times, very powerful performances from the cast," writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson will reunite to star in a new Bridget Jones movie, titled Mad About the Boy.
For the first time in 10 years, legendary Australian singer-songwriter Shannon Noll will forsake the pubs and festivals, and hit the main stages of Australia. Arts editor HELEN MUSA asks him why...
