EntertainmentTheatre review: Mana Wahine, Q TheatreOkareka Dance Company has hit the jackpot with this exploration of the strength, the spirit, the wiles and the primal beauty of women, specifically Maori women.03 Jul 12:00 AM
OpinionChch quake handled with careWe asked Christchurch-based APNZ reporter Kurt Bayer, who reported on the quakes and their aftermath, to view Hope and Wire. Here's his take.02 Jul 09:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum review: Ed Sheeran, XHe's made himself a pop sensation and teen heart-throb on the basis of his songs rather than his looks, and for that, you have to give ginger-haired Pom Ed Sheeran a tip of the cap.02 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum reviews: PNC, Buckshot & P-MoneyChris Schulz reviews new albums by Kiwi hip-hop heavyweights PNC and P-Money.02 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentGame review: EA Sports UFCI shouldn't be reviewing this game. I find the violence in mixed martial arts repulsive. But then again, this is just a video game.02 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionChris SchulzReview: Transformers are backIt's probably around the two-hour mark of this big, bloated, bombastic spectacle of a sequel that you might start thinking to yourself, why are we doing this again?26 Jun 03:00 AM
EntertainmentClassical review: Beethoven, Auckland Town HallBeethoven, as everyone knows, sells seats. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's <i>Beethoven: The Symphonies</i> proved just that four times over.23 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionColin Hogg: Live news travels back a centuryIf you're one of those people with a weakness for laughing in the wrong place then it might be best you don't watch <i>War News</i>, writes Colin Hogg.23 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentTheatre review: Seed, The BasementPlaywright Elizabeth Easther won the 2014 Adam Play Award with this sophisticated, witty and very contemporary meditation on the timeless processes of procreation.19 Jun 11:45 PM
EntertainmentTheatre review: AnnieIn an age of diminished expectations <i>Annie</i> offers an unabashed celebration of the irrepressible optimism that fuels the American Dream.15 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentTheatre review: Once on Chunuk Bair, Maidment TheatreIn this superb Auckland Theatre Company production of the Gallipoli play, twelve angry men fill the stage with presence and charisma, increasing the under-fire excitement of a battlefield tragedy.15 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentReview: It's okay to like Linkin Park againLoud. Spontaneous. Free. These aren't attributes normally associated with Linkin Park, a band that spends so much time on studio tinkering their albums should come with stickers warning of over-production.12 Jun 02:00 AM
EntertainmentMovie review: Good VibrationsDJ-turned-record shop and record-label owner Terri Hooley (Dormer) was responsible for championing punk music and ignited the scene in Belfast during the 1970s.11 Jun 05:00 PM
