In a short but snazzy virtual launch last night, Canberra Youth Theatre artistic director and CEO, Luke Rogers, ushered in a year of mostly original plays to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
TO actor Christopher Samuel Carroll, the idea of a summer holiday is but a fanciful dream.
Illusionist Michael Boyd brings circus and theatre on stage together using illusions, dramatic presentations and his own quirky personal touches in a magic show with a difference.
CANBERRA theatre buffs gathered at Rep’s Theatre in Acton this week for “CATS Interrupted” an informal recognition of excellence by the CAT Awards as they emerge from covid and a period of dormancy.
The movers and shakers of Canberra’s theatre community crammed into the old Causeway Hall at Kingston tonight for the official launch of the 2022 debut season for the new theatre collective, ACT Hub.
Reviewer by ARNE SJOSTEDT says this play gets busy. Rude. Argumentative. And WOKE.
"This is theatre requiring perceptive listening; a skill so rarely required in entertainment in the 21st century," writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
The CAT Awards are coming back with “CATS Interrupted”, reports HELEN MUSA.
AN exceptional Canberra actor-playwright was presented with the Helen Tsongas Award for excellence in acting by Canberra Theatre director Alex Budd at the ACT Arts Awards tonight.
Reviewer LEN POWER enjoys the welcome performance of "A Christmas Carol".
Shortis and Simpson put the focus on Keith Potger.
JOE WOODWARD reviews “Chiaroscuro”.
CANBERRA’S Fiona Victoria Hopkins has won the bronze medal in the main professional finals of the World Monologue Games last night.
Hot on last night’s news that Kirsty Zane had won a CAPO grant to attend a professional reading of a screenplay in the US, an email has arrived from Zane, already in America, with news her screenplay has picked up awards.
ARTISTIC director of The Q Jordan Best, can hardly suppress her excitement as she announces her 2022 season.
AS reported in “Citynews” on November 12, Causeway Hall in Kingston will be converted into a new home for independent theatre in Canberra, to be called ACT Hub.
CANBERRA Repertory Society Theatre has launched its 2022 season, celebrating 90 years of operation, with an eclectic mix of conundrums, family dynamics, love stories, shenanigans and visits into history.
“A CHRISTMAS Carol” is soon coming to the Canberra Rep stage with a German twist fit to warm the hearts of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, writes HELEN MUSA.
CANBERRA’S theatre community is mourning the loss of its best-known and most prolific set designer, Brian Sudding, who died on November 2.
