Comedians with a Punchline planned for Melbourne
Canberra comedians Jacquelyn Richards and Trish Hurley will be representing the Women's Room initiative at the Melbourne Comedy Festival next week with their new show, Punchline.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
Arts here, arts there and arts everywhere! HELEN MUSA rounds up what's on where in her latest Artsweek column.
Louise Skačej has been named as the artist selected to create a public artwork honouring the late Stasia Dabrowski, Canberra’s Soup Kitchen Lady.
DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles on Canberrans with a story. This week he meets a familiar TV news face who's gone from writing fact to fiction.
Theatre
Throwing light on the dark side of ruthless Henry
JK Kazzi, who plays the title role of Bell Shakespeare's upcoming production of Henry 5, tells arts editor HELEN MUSA that he plans to expose the dark side of the role.
Arts & Entertainment
Portrait of the artist as a… train, actually
HELEN MUSA spins all around the local arts world. Here's Arts in the City, full of news of her latest circumnavigation.
Streaming
Crowded market for streaming TV faces Max exodus
A new streaming service offers a host of big movies and small-screen hits, posing questions about the future of a crowded market for on-demand viewing.
LEN POWER reviews Across Space and Time, a piano recital by Stuart Long of moving movie music.
"The ensemble’s dramatic approach to the work brought out a new experience of Mozart’s astonishing harmonic adventurism." NICK HORN reviews the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
"The applause grew and was sustained as the audience realised that they had just heard something quite remarkable." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Gesualdo Tenebrae, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers.
When it comes to television shows about murder investigations, sometimes it feels like everything has been done, but not everything, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
The new Viva Italia in Canberra Festival kicked off in fine style with its "night under the stars” by Lake Burley Griffin on Friday.
"David Bridie’s songs are observational, usually reflective, sometimes meditative, seeking the essential spirit of a scene or subject, perhaps in the same way a painter does," writes reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
"This was a very polished and impassioned performance of a brilliantly curated set of works, which saw our CSO step up yet again to further extend its reputation." Reviewer MICHAEL WILSON enjoyed the Canberra Symphony Orchestra.
Fyshwick artist Margaret Hadfield's her oil painting, #lestweforget@Wimbie Beach, has been announced as one of the 32 finalists in the 20th annual Gallipoli Art Prize, of which she was the inaugural winner in 2006.
After Christmas, book reviewer ANNA CREER started reading some of the remaining books on the review shelf and discovered four real gems.
"The Moors is a deranged romp through a world that echoes the Brontes," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Here's the latest burst of Artsweek, HELEN MUSA's weekly column that rounds up what's happening where on the local arts scene.
When actor Jay Laga'aia steps on The Playhouse stage as The Pirate King in the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance, he'll be doing what he likes best – interacting with audiences, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
