The newest show from John Waters, featuring Stewart D’Arrietta and the Chartbusters, is Radio Luxembourg, a look at the British Pop Invasion that changed the world of modern music. The Street Theatre, February 28. 

Harpist Alice Giles and pianist Arnan Wiesel are cooking up a six-part concert series to be called Harmonic Curves. It begins with Wiesel and Aaron Chew playing romantic and 20th century “four hands” works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Ligeti, Stravinsky, Ligeti and JS Bach/Kurtag. Wesley Music Centre February 23

In a burst of nostalgia, Canberra Philharmonic Society is reviving Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s family-friendly musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Tim Dal Cortivo in the title role. Erindale Theatre, February 27-March 15.

Rebus Theatre is branching out with an ambitious new program, Stages of Empathy, to be directed by Sammy Moynihan. The free, theatre-based training program is designed to help community groups become more accessible for autistic people and people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in the ACT, NSW and Victoria.

Canberra Bach Ensemble, directed by Andrew Koll with the orchestra led by Stephen Freeman, will be back with Cantatas BWV 111, 92, 73 & 72, St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka, February 22-23. 

ANU Film Group is back after a long pause for hail remediation work with a massive program of 56 films, including almost all the Oscar-nominated films and a free Indian film festival in March, and lots of Canberra premieres. ANU’s Kambri Cultural Centre. More at anufg.org.au