EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: The Hermitude of Angus, EcstaticAt first, this late-night one-man show from Australia looks like just a vehicle for a <i>Mr Bean</i> impersonator in younger, more alternative clothing.08 Mar 10:13 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Beautiful MeThe stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.07 Mar 10:12 PM
EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: The Turn of the ScrewWhen the Basement theatre is packed out at 10pm on a Monday night for a local production based on a 19th century novella by Henry James, I think it is safe to say the Auckland Fringe Festival and the Auckland Arts Festival are going off.07 Mar 10:02 PM
EntertainmentPoetry Reviews: Fossicking in the pastPaula Green reviews three new volumes of poetry from New Zealand writers.07 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: Drowning in Veronica LakeBoldly and cleverly, this Flaxworks solo show is built upon one solitary, striking symbol of celebrity. 06 Mar 11:16 PM
EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: SilkPaul Simei-Barton reviews <i>Silk</i>, on at the Basement Theatre as past of the Auckland Fringe Festival06 Mar 10:29 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Jack DeJohnette, Jack Johnson: Soundtrack to a Legend06 Mar 10:05 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love StoryAfter creating a sensation at the previous Auckland Arts Festival, the creators of <i>The Arrival</i> have returned with an exquisitely crafted rhapsody of image and movement-based theatre.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: <i>I Am Number Four</i>On the run from ruthless enemies, teenager John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) must come to terms with his alien heritage to get the girl (Dianna Agron) and save the planet.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: Roxy Music, Villa Maria EstateThe last time Roxy Music played in New Zealand it was in a Waikato field as the headliners of Sweetwaters 1981.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With CareProgramme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: <i>Hall Pass</i>After several flops, the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary) try to reclaim their status as kings of the gross-out sex comedy with this scatological outing starring Owen Wilson. 06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: <i>The Last Exorcism</i>Patrick Fabian is a confident leading man in The Last Exorcism.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>From Under The Overcoat</i>Though Sue Orr's new collection of short stories, <i>From Under The Overcoat</i>, references short stories by literary greats such as Nikolay Gogol (<i>The Over Coat</i>) and James Joyce (<i>The Dead</i>), don't hold that against it.06 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</i>A sickbed obsession culminates in moving musings about the beauty of our world. 06 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: XerxesHeroes don't come much kookier than Xerxes. He may be the King of Persia but he opens Handel's opera by extolling the beauties of a plane tree; a man who, as one character comments, "is aroused by a rough trunk."03 Mar 12:00 AM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Havoc in the GardenThe latest piece of youth-oriented theatre from Massive Company adopts the admirably egalitarian but dramatically unsatisfying strategy of giving what amounts to a lead role to each member of the 14 person cast.02 Mar 09:50 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Radiohead <i>The King of Limbs</i>Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Another futuristic beauty02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Of Montreal <i>False Priest</i>Rating: 4/5. Verdict: More absurd fun from Georgia's most colourful, camp and clever band02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: <i>Curry Munchers</i>A knockabout Kiwindian comedy with a light seasoning of pathos, this self-funded project does not exceed the expectations raised by its modest origins.02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: <i>Tamara Drewe</i>Based on Posy Simmond's graphic novel, originally serialised in the Guardian's Review supplement, Tamara Drewe is a light and frothy satire on life and lust in a quiet English country village.02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: An Emerald City <i>The Fourth</i>Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Setting their controls to the heart of the sun02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: PJ Harvey <i>Let England Shake</i>Rating: 5/5. Verdict: History recorded02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: Deep in the Forest: A Cautionary CabaretDeep in the Forest is subtitled a Cautionary Cabaret and punters should be cautioned to exercise a certain amount a scepticism when viewing the show's promotional material. 02 Mar 01:31 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Working The Room Essays</i>One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).02 Mar 01:00 AM
