Helen Musa

4 days ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

When you’re staging a play called If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You, theatre chitchat is likely to focus on the lengthy title. “It’s memorable I guess,” director Joel Horwood says when I catch up with him and cast member Robert Kjellgren, “but it is affectionately known to us as simply, “Cocaine”.

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Billed as a pawsome experience, the Oz Feline Fair is coming to Canberra this weekend. Promoted as Australia’s first National Cat Convention, the fair will feature cat-centric festivities. It’s  the brainchild of US cat judge Steven Meserve, who has garnered a 20-million strong TikTok following through blending entertainment with education and who founded the organisation Loving Cats Worldwide, which aims to provide education on cat ownership and ethical breeding.

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Craft / Walking with the Gardener, Sharon Peoples and Peter McLean, Tuggeranong Arts Centre until June 7. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE. This is a joint exhibition of two Canberrans who were artists-in-residence at the Old School in Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains. Peoples was there is 2023, McLean in 2024. They did not originally plan an exhibition together, but the two bodies of work share many similarities, as well as the location that inspired them.

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

Craft / Pixel and Thread, Networks Australia, Tuggeranong Arts Centre until June 7. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE. Networks Australia is a collective and this show brings together 12 members. Pixel and Thread explores the intersection of the digital and tactile, uniting the realms of technology and traditional craftsmanship, we are told by the blurb in the catalogue. Stephen, an embroidered portrait by Angela Coleman, appears to fit the original brief.

1 week ago | citynews.com.au | Helen Musa

It’s not an Agatha Christie year for Tempo Theatre – it’s time for a good laugh instead, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA. A good laugh is how director Jon Elphick sees it, as he explains how the venerable community theatre group Tempo alternates its most popular repertoire choices year by year. In 2023, for instance, Tempo scored a hit with Basil Thomas’ 1950s British comedy of manners, Book of the Month and now, turning again to a Thomas script, they’re staging the play, LoveBirds.