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.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
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.
Music
Chorale sings religious music with a sense of enjoyment
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Prayers and Lamentations, a performance by The Oriana Chorale.
Streaming
Series exposes the dark side of kids’ hit shows
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.
Reviews
Heather Mitchell’s riveting performance poetry in motion
"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...
It’s more than a quarter of a century since John Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata was staged at The Street Theatre in Canberra, but now it’s been revived by director Lexi Sekuless at Mill Theatre in Dairy Road during the lead up to Anzac Day.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA round up of all things arts and entertainment in her latest Artsweek column.
Clad in regal purple, dance legend Elizabeth Cameron Dalman greeted old friends, collaborators and colleagues to her property on the edge of Lake George on Saturday to mark 35 years of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre.
Terence Maloon, ione of Australia's most admired curators, retired last year after a decade as director of the Drill Hall Gallery. But but you wouldn't know it, says HELEN MUSA.
Here's this week's Arts in the City column from arts editor HELEN MUSA.
LEN POWER reviews Romantic Masters, a performance by tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Roland Peelman.
