Past and present brought together in masterful exploration of life under siege.

Town vows to improve racial and religious tolerance after Who Is America? aired.

Chelsea Jade makes up for a lack of new material with a selection of rock-solid bops.

The new album HAJA is an awesome mix of cultures, voices and sounds.

Is there such a thing as an album so chill you almost forget to listen to it?

Paul Simei-Barton reviews Massive Company's latest group work, Sightings.

Each time Wildlife loses pace, Carey Mulligan rescues it with her stunning performance.

Jaime Martin and NZSO have fun with Shostakovich's Festive Overture, writes William Dart.

Antonello Palombi won hearts with his rapturous "Celeste Aida", writes William Dart.

Tami Neilson takes on the patriarchy with more sass than we've ever seen.

New Zealand's Thomasin McKenzie shines in this feature from the director of Winter's Bone.

Mammoth weaves a story of extinction, survival and hair together in a neat whole.

Giordano Bellincampi launched APO's Beethoven 7 concert with a welcome taste of Danish.

The Chairs is a strange linguistic experiment but also a rather bizarre cultural one.

COMMENT: Sharp Objects is a compelling yet uncomfortable watch.

Odette's To a Stranger is a strong debut, let down by a lack of variation.

Teyana Taylor's album could've been great, but was Kanye's project the right time for it?

School holidays mean that Tim Bray Productions will stage one of its plays for children.

The Basement Theatre celebrates Matariki with two very different plays worth seeing.

Anna Murray revisits all of the 7pm offerings to decide who reigns supreme.

NZSO and conductor Harth-Bedoya came to town with a curious (and rather short) programme.

Murky depths of Jacobean drama are chillingly illuminated in Michael Hurst's production.

Give Derren Brown this: he knows how to get attention.

150 years after Little Women was released, the story is, depressingly, still relevant.

The evening was entitled Brahms & Tchaikovsky, but NZ composer Gareth Farr shone.

Weber's F minor concerto might have been written to showcase this man's talent for lithe.

The programme opened with three chorale preludes from Bach's Orgel-buchlein.

Playing Beethoven while hanging from ceiling was a bit different.

Christina Aguilera's Liberation is a cinematic exploration of herself.

Auckland Chamber Orchestra captures those who catch the spirit of NZ in music. music.