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Concert review: Rodriguez

At 70, his eye sight is failing, and he looked fragile as he was escorted on and off the stage by his roadie and members of his recently assembled all-Kiwi band.

Womad fires up despite rain

Although no one doubted the need for rain ... did it have to come on the final day of Womad? And two days after a drought had been declared?

Taut study of dysfunction

The festival offering from playwright Mitch Tawhi Thomas is a taut study of family dysfunction that finds plenty of life and laughter in the explosive quarrelling of estranged brothers.

TV Preview: The New Normal

The New Normal caused controversy before it even aired. Sarah Lang finds out why

Birds take flight in new direction

Album No4 is a huge change for Aussie indie band, hears Paula Yeoman.

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Review: Carmen tribute a night of wild contrasts

Review: Chinese theatre a revelation

This rich 1999 experimental classic from China is stylish, hip, humorous, streetwise - and hopelessly romantic: under youth's swagger are youth's desperate illusions.

Review: Rare mingling of wonderful music and enchantment

We had come to the Civic Theatre to hear Haydn and Mozart from Kronos Quartet; in partnership with pipa virtuoso Wu Man, the Americans were offering a rare mingling of music and magic.

Solo show could do with more laughs

Taking time to smell the lavender

Concert review: Ed Sheeran

Revisiting the 17th century with elegance and attitude

The cover of Max Emanuel Cencic's Venezia says it all. The Croatian countertenor is all elegance, in dinner jacket and cravat, in front of an ornate wallpaper that might adorn the walls of a Venetian palazzo.