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It’s time to unleash our inner FANGIRLS!

Heather Wallace — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:30:02 +0000

What would you do to meet your celebrity crush? That’s what’s asked in FANGIRLS by Yve Blake—an empowering new musical about being a teenager desperately in love with a member...

Wharf Revue 2020: Good night and Good luck

Heather Wallace — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:00:28 +0000

If there’s an understatement for 2020 it has be, “The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.” It’s certainly true for the 20th-anniversary tour of the annual...

Behind the Lines: political cartoons help make sense of 2020

Heather Wallace — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:00:43 +0000

If there’s a year that’s gone to the dogs, it’s 2020. There are plenty of ways to describe it, using words that rhyme with ‘ducked’ and ‘chewed’, but the theme...

Review: Enola Holmes is far from elementary

Heather Wallace — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 19:10:53 +0000

I wonder what Arthur Conan Doyle would have thought of theories linking a person’s personality with their birth order. These are the theories that claim the eldest child is the...

Review: Made in Italy

Heather Wallace — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:00:50 +0000

Liam Neeson is a bohemian artist who joins his estranged adult son in returning to the Tuscan villa bequeathed to them. Intending to make it ready for sale, they have...

Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Heather Wallace — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:20:09 +0000

Though HerCanberra's arts writer Heather Wallace couldn't attend Eurovision in Rotterdam this year, she's found the next best thing... I will forever hold it against 2020 that Iceland was not...

Shakespeare in Love: star-crossed lovers, laughs and a dog

Heather Wallace — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:10:13 +0000

Expect star-crossed lovers, laughs and a dog when Shakespeare in Love opens at Canberra Theatre Centre this evening. “Love and a bit with a dog, that's what they want,” says...

Bangarra: 30 years of sixty five thousand

Heather Wallace — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 20:10:02 +0000

The title of Bangarra’s thirtieth anniversary season sums up what this extraordinary Australian dance company stands for: telling the stories of an ancient land and the First Nations people...