Latest from Auckland Arts Festival

Come on, feel the noise - why more New Zealanders are singing than ever before

Rugby is our national game but there's a surprising artistic pastime many more NZers do.

Maddest opera is a must-see

Why Eight Songs for a Mad King succeeds in taking Opera NZ into a brave new world.

Noirish violence and passionate sensuality feature in Snow White ballet

Disney this is not, Snow White ballet dazzles with magical dance and special effects.

It's on - Auckland Arts Festival opens

Auckland Arts Festival opens the door on new theatre, dance, music and visual arts.

Landmark New Zealand production opens at Auckland Arts Festival

Powerful story told well highlights links between NZ and Zimbabwe.

Wanting to hear new stories? Upu is the theatre show you need to see

Upu shows the depth of Oceanic poetry.

Upu invokes rich Pasefika stories

Grace Iwashita-Taylor explains how Pasefika poetry has been brought to the Auckland stage.

Winds of concern blow through NZ composer's new music

NZ composer launches musical response to climate change in South Pacific style.

Leading choreographer leaps into festival role

Surprise appointment as Auckland Arts Festival names new artistic director.

The Kiwi rapper who almost became a neuroscientist

Wild and winning big - Tom Scott on his triumphant homecoming, family and fatherhood.

What to see at Auckland Arts Festival 2020

What's hot at next year's Auckland Arts Festival?

Auckland's mega-buck summer: Events to pump $53 million into economy

Gigs from global superstars, Kiwi hit-makers and stage shows make Auckland colourful.

Forget Disney's Snow White - the ballet set to seduce Aucklanders

Auckland Arts Festival announces stunning ballet as headline show for 2020.

12 questions: Cultural bridge builder Rosabel Tan

Rosabel Tan is bridging cultures by staging free art events in public spaces.

Apocalypse now: Sense of doom fills lively work

Hofesh Shechter's Grand Finale brings audience to their feet, says Raewyn Whyte

Classical review: APO's Turangalila Symphony triumph

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra does full justice to rarely-performed grand composition.