Spirit of salsa shimmies to the beat of its popularity
Ron Cerabona During the day, Tamina Koehne-Drube is a graduate lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons. After hours, though, she swaps the business attire for something a little more colourful as a Latin dance...
Summer School so cool
Ron Cerabona ''Muppets and Merry Melodies'' was the theme of the 38th annual Young Music Society's Summer School.
Popular musical guaranteed to leave audiences wanting more
Ron Cerabona Ickle Pickle Productions artistic director Justin Watson said, ''Anecdotally, I've heard Oliver! is the show done by the most individual companies around the world.''
Winnie, Eeyore and an eyeful of colour
Ron Cerabona The cast of Free-Rain's production of Winnie the Pooh face what is, for them, a new challenge. While they have been on stage before, in this adaptation of the classic stories by A.A.
Everyone's a critic as Les Mis hits or misses
Ron Cerabona The Canberra Philharmonic Society should not have anything to fear from the film of Les Miserables that opened on Boxing Day.
Tread the boards with NIDA graduates
Ron Cerabona Actor and NIDA tutor Julia Ohannessian has fond memories Canberra - and of the young Canberrans she helped inspire.
All the world's a stage for Canberra duo
Ron Cerabona They came from opposite sides of the theatrical curtain and had never met before. But Ben Kindon, 18, and Ryan Drum, 21, had something in common: each had been accepted into a course in a major...
Going back to the island for all things folk
Ron Cerabona Those wanting a taste of the National Folk Festival before the event will have their chance in 2013.
Rent rocks in the face of adversity
Ron Cerabona Jonathan Larson's multi-award-winning musical Rent rocks into the Courtyard Studio at the Canberra Theatre Centre on Thursday.
Stars bring Phantom's music to Canberra Theatre's night
Ron Cerabona The Phantom has been unmasked. In the historical surroundings of Benedict House in Queanbeyan, producer Anne Somes announced the stars of Free-Rain Theatre Company's 2013 Canberra premiere production...
Anger, lust and love, no room for cowards
Ron Cerabona What happens when you can't live with someone but can't live without them, either? That's one of the questions explored in Noel Coward's Private Lives, which opened at the Playhouse, Canberra Theatre...
Improbable maybe, but all rep is good fun
Ron Cerabona What happens when the creations of a group of would-be writers come to life? Alan Ayckbourn explores the possibilities in his comedy Improbable Fiction, which opens at Theatre 3 on Friday.
Makers of scary films far from horrific
Ron Cerabona The Soska Sisters, Jen and Sylvia, do not conform to any kind of horror stereotype. For a pair who write, direct and produce horror movies, the 29-year-old Canadian twins were cheerful, chatty and...
Cult movie actress tells of survival in the fast lane
Ron Cerabona This is Laurene Landon's first time in Australia and what has struck the Canadian actress most is the honesty here.
Speaker to take aim at ANU Music's tough times
Ron Cerabona Richard Gill is not a man given to understatement or holding back. The title of his new memoir, Give Me Excess of It, hints at this, and also at what his major passion in life is: it's taken from the...
History lessons were never like this
Ron Cerabona Canberra is the ''spiritual home'' of The Wharf Revue, co-writer and performer Drew Forsythe said yesterday.
Cup of literary awards runneth over
Ron Cerabona Two very different people with significant Canberra connections were honoured in Tuesday's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, one for a book presenting a new perspective on Aboriginal history, the...
Types that bind: writers' ink flowing in a new vein
Ron Cerabona In an increasingly online era, books and handwriting are often looked on as old-fashioned, if not verging on obsolete.
Classic awaits verdict by local audiences
Ron Cerabona Atticus Finch is regarded as one of the great heroes of American literature and cinema.
Martians turn heat ray on the capital
Ron Cerabona The Martians are about to land in Canberra. Supa Productions' Canberra premiere of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds has been in planning and preparation for the past two years.
