Here come those bears… and Goldilocks
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA'S latest burst of all-things-arts in this week's "Arts in the City" column.
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Arts editor HELEN MUSA lists events from comedy to classical in this week's 'Arts in the City' column.
Independent theatre collective, Australian Capital Theatre Hub in Kingston, has announced a jam-packed 2024 season with nine separate productions.
Huge in scale and teetering on the brink of madness throughout, "King Lear" is a work that only the most intrepid of directors would tackle. Enter someone game enough, Joel Horwood.
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Fond fun in a romp through Shakespeare
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Canberra Rep's last show of the year, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (revised)”.
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A sense McDermott still calls Canberra home
"The Comedy Gods were smiling on the performance, providing bonus laughs and additional comic material that no one could dream up." JOE WOODWARD reviews “Paul McDermott Plus One – Blood Orange”.
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Actor Jim Adamik wins his friend’s special award
Jim Adamik, who cut his teeth doing “crazy shows” in Canberra, has been presented with the Helen Tsongas Award for excellence in acting.
HELEN MUSA reviews "Rough Magic", a play by Helen Machalias, at The Street Theatre until November 19.
ARNE FEALING reviews “The Visitors” at The Playhouse.
It's a long title, but the moment you read “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]” or its alternative, “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)”, you know you’re in for some fun, writes HELEN MUSA.
The title of the coming cabaret at The B, "Triceratop" is just that, singular, and for a very good reason, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Eliane Morel's performance of "Carmen the Cabaret".
With a daring mix of old and new directorial faces, Canberra Rep’s 92nd season was launched on Friday evening before subscribers, members and old friends, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"The cast's deep, emotionally real performances made sure the complicated narrative was delivered in such a way that losing attention was virtually impossible." ARNE FEALING reviews "Speaking in Tongues".
"Theatregoers praise and lament the wit of such luminaries as Oscar Wilde while possibly ignoring the incredible writing and performances of Australia’s Wharf Revue writing and performance team," says reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
The “Come Alive” Festival of Museum Theatre picks up on Canberra's national collections, so that students from secondary schools and colleges visit a museum and select a character, an object or an event that inspires them to write a play.
HELEN MUSA makes it to the media call for the Wharf Revue at The Playhouse.
HELEN MUSA previews a “heartfelt work” that takes Shakespeare and the asylum-seeker experience in Australia and “mashes them together to make something new”.
It's an open question as to whether theatre director Cate Clelland would've been helped if she'd seen the film "Lantana" before directing Andrew Bovell’s play "Speaking in Tongues", on which the movie was based, writes HELEN MUSA.
