For the first time, our 49-year-old book awards will get an international judge.

Reviewer Dione Joseph leaves Pop-up Globe's Henry V with a new favourite play.

Andrew Gunn's first play was an award-winner; expectations are high for his next.

Dramatic battles recall the 'original immersive theatre'.

Art lover Warwick Brown joins the art collectors auctioning modern NZ masterpieces.

How a simple grain defines us.

An ex-New Zealand owned painting by Mark Rothko is expected to fetch millions next week.

William Dart finds the NZSO's collaboration with the Modern Maori Quartet has mixed results.

A night on the Floating Theatre makes for an enchanted evening, writes Janet McAllister.

Auckland could get its biggest laser light show for the opening ceremony of the World Masters Games

Dance show Castles shows maybe life's mosaic of experiences are difficult to fathom.

A poet from Te Kuiti thought her win was a hoax at first.

Theatre review: Paul Simei-Barton takes a look at the Pop-up Globe's latest production.

Who says you need to be on land to see a show in the Auckland Fringe Festival?

William Dart reviews the APO's latest concert.

Forget the musical Cats, here's a genuine cat show where the feline stars are centre stage if they want

Disappointment with one CD turns to delight for William Dart who is alerted to a composer most of us should get to hear.

APO TO give first performance of composer Christopher Rouse's 2005 Oboe Concerto outside the United States.

The woman who read Auckland, Janet McAllister, visits the Mangere Bridge and Onehunga libraries.

Dionne Christian talks to the artist behind a giant installation at Te Tuhi gallery

US author Laurie Frankel tells Jennifer Dann how she didn't have to look far for the idea behind her latest novel

A play at the Fringe Festival questions the pardons being given to gay men

From comedy to science fiction, there are few topics acclaimed New Zealand playwright Stephen Sinclair hasn't brought to the stage.

Carl Goldie, born Kim Sim, was the first New Zealander to be convicted for art forgery.

Theatre reviewer Janet McAllister takes a theatrical trip to the supermarket.

This is a dance show worth rushing to be part of, writes Raewyn Whyte.

Fringe Festival director Lydia Zanetti on how she pulled together a festival without much funding.

Tim O'Brien had just days to turn around an illustration involving "Trump in a hurricane". The hair, he says, was the hardest part.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra launched its main New Zealand Herald Premier series with John Rimmer's Vulcan, a fanfare it commissioned 18 years ago.

Provocative play prompts us to think before we speak.