When the curtain rose on the new Canberra Theatre on June 24, 1965, a crowd of VIPs crammed in to see Minister for the Interior Doug Anthony launch Australia's first multi-purpose theatre centre, reports HELEN MUSA.
Australia's Sarah Snook has won a coveted Tony Award for best leading actress in a play for her widely acclaimed performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Based on the award-winning coming-of-age book and film, the Looking for Alibrandi stage show is shining a spotlight on discrimination during a national tour.
Opening night for this provoking play about what humanity is doing to the planet was cut short when a cast member was taken ill, but the second night saw a solid audience with returnees wanting to see how this epic was going to finish.
"One can be sceptical of the many local remounts of older works we see these days, but this show has more relevance than many." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews Noel Coward's Present Laughter.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rounds up the latest arts news tidbits for her latest Arts in the City column.
"The complex plot gives the cast of 11 (plus budgie) the opportunity to present a group of colourful characters struggling with ever wilder and funnier situations." LEN POWER reviews Tempo Theatre's production of The Lovebirds.
Canberra playwright David Finnigan has been treading the world’s stages for some years now with his environmental explorations and one of those works, Scenes from the Climate Era, is about to surface at The Q, reports HELEN MUSA.
"This play needs to be seen by young audiences. It isn’t 'cool' nor faddish. It is engaging when one gives it a chance." JOE WOODWARD reviews a Street Theatre production of Jean Genet's The Maids, directed by Caroline Stacey.
"The play is a subtle lesson in the power of words and how they can silence certain sectors of society, particularly women." LEN POWER reviews The Dictionary of Lost Words at The Playhouse.
LEN POWER reviews the play If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You.
An unusual match of talents takes the stage at Smith this week when yarn spinner and musician Jan "Yarn" Wositzky, teams up with theatre worker Penny Glass, who for 23 years has been creating theatre in a Chilean men’s prison.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews The Street's upcoming season of Jean Genet's celebrated 20th century play The Maids.
HELEN MUSA previews the play If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You, which opens this week at the ACT Hub, Kingston.
"It’s complex stuff with no straight timeline, staged by director and designer Chris Baldock with a real feeling for the possibilities of a setting with the audience on four sides." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews When The Rain Stops Falling.
It’s not an Agatha Christie year for Tempo Theatre – it’s time for a good laugh instead, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Directors who try to put their own stamp on a Noel Coward play need to tread warily," warns reviewer LEN POWER.
Director Chris Baldock has been wanting to stage Andrew Bovell’s play, When The Rain Stops Falling, for 10 years and this fourth time around, it looks as if he’ll pull it off.
A new production of Blithe Spirit by one of Canberra's brightest young directors, Lachlan Houen, is unashamedly setting out to make people laugh, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
