Helen Musa

With a splash of Christmas entertainment and more besides, here's HELEN MUSA's weekly Arts in the City column. 

A student at Canberra Girls' Grammar School is among the four recipients of the 2024 John Bell Scholarship.

So famous is Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, seen at the Canberra Theatre in June, that many people have forgotten it’s not his only work for the stage. ACT Hub’s end-of-year production of Tick, Tick… BOOM! will put paid to that view.

There's Christmas entertainment a more in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.

Dan Russell tried 120 violins before settling on a new one, from c1730, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column. 

Likening the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre’s 2025 theatre program to a patchwork quilt, The Q's artistic director Jordan Best promised it would be “always colourful, interesting and full of excitement”.

Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Homecoming: An Opera Gala, an informal yet elegant recital by five gifted young singers from the Queensland Conservatorium.

Another great mix of arts and entertainment awaits Canberra and surrounds as HELEN MUSA reports in her latest Artsweek column. 

When American soprano Rachel Mink steps up to perform for Art Song Canberra, the audience will sense quite a different flavour from the usual lieder repertoire, reports HELEN MUSA.

SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews Afterimages of Familiar Tales by Adelaide artist Jessica Murtagh.

Nobel Laureate and former vice-chancellor of the ANU Brian Schmidt has unveiled the Canberra Museum + Gallery’s latest exhibition, Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars, marking the 100th anniversary of Mount Stromlo Observatory.