EntertainmentArts Festival lineup getting even biggerThe lineup for next year's Auckland Arts Festival keeps growing with the announcement last night of more shows joining the March 2-20 programme.05 Nov 05:30 AM
New ZealandStage masterOne of our finest acting and directing talents turns his attention to the classic musical Guys and Dolls. By Dionne Christian11 Oct 09:44 PM
EntertainmentAll the danger of the circusThe wheel of death rolls out for the latest spectacular, writes Dionne Christian.11 Oct 12:00 AM
EntertainmentKate Tempest set to storm NZKate Tempest is a woman of many talents, with a background as a poet, playwright and a novelist. When she's here in January, she'll be showcasing her skills as a rapper.07 Oct 05:00 PM
EntertainmentDance review: Mitimiti, Tempo Dance FestivalMitimiti has its beginnings in choreographer Jack Gray's personal journey in search of a closer connection with his Te Rarawa heritage and marae in the Hokianga.30 Sep 04:00 PM
EntertainmentTheatre review: Manifesto 2083, The BasementAt the start of this intellectually confronting and complex one-man play, Olaf Hojgaard (Edwin Wright) tells us he was watching the 2011 Tour de France telecast when he first heard about Anders Behring Breivik's politically-motivated murder.29 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Perri ExeterPerri Exeter is a choreographer and dance teacher at Rutherford College where her students got the best scholarship results in New Zealand.28 Sep 04:00 PM
EntertainmentPlay filled with unexpected twistsPlaywright Aroha Awarau has created a sensitive and engaging drama out of something that is almost unimaginably tragic - the random death of a young man cut down in his prime as an innocent bystander at a police shooting.22 Sep 10:55 PM
EntertainmentShakespeare's classic comedy spellbindingIf you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.03 Sep 03:20 AM
EntertainmentReview: Welcome homecoming for trioThere was a sense of celebration, marred only by the thudding beats of revivalist worship downstairs. A well-filled Town Hall Concert Chamber hosted an audience keen to welcome home some distinguished young Auckland musicians.31 Aug 08:00 PM
EntertainmentNZ Dance Company's Lumina 'hypnotic'The three choreographers contributing state of the art pieces for this ground-breaking season with the New Zealand Dance Company were given the brief of "light, illumination, space, image and movement" by the company's artistic director Shona McCullagh.19 Aug 10:55 PM
EntertainmentDisney on Ice isn't just for the kidsPrincesses, pirouettes and prancing. Eli Orzessek gets a sneak preview of this weekend's Disney on Ice show in Auckland.25 Jul 10:22 PM
EntertainmentEx-Shorty star's sex strikeOn stage, she's the leader of a sex strike, aimed at ending a 20-year-old war. Off stage, Amanda Billing can't fathom such a drastic move.18 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentKiwi dancers wow at NOWThis second season of NOW - New Original Works - truly reflects its name, with four confidently emerging new choreographers, expressing some very original concepts, beautifully performed by the talented and extremely hard-working team of five dancers.17 Jul 12:30 AM
EntertainmentClassical review: Nikolai DemidenkoOn Sunday, Nikolai Demidenko launched Auckland Museum's 2015 Fazioli International Piano Recital Series with a thoughtful and testing Chopin programme.29 Jun 09:56 PM
EntertainmentReview: Salute with RNZBThe dancing ‘soldier boys’ perfectly translate human strength and fragility in the war, writes Bernadette Rae.15 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentKiwi actor takes Hamlet worldwideGreg Dixon talks to Rawiri Paratene about how he came to be taking Shakespeare to the world.22 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentBrits charm at Writers FestivalComedian and bestselling children’s author David Walliams recounted how the inspiration for one of his villains came from his experience judging Britain's Got Talent.16 May 03:04 AM
EntertainmentKiwi fashion icon gets nakedLearning lines, frumpy clothes, and getting naked … Kiwi fashion queen Denise L’Estrange-Corbet talks to Suzanne McFadden about her very revealing stage debut.09 May 04:05 AM
EntertainmentTheatre review: A Doll's HouseEmily Perkins' A Doll's House is to Henrik Ibsen's original what Clueless is to Jane Austen's Emma: it's a wonderfully assured adaptation, writes Janet McAllister.03 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentDance Review: RotundaThe opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.24 Apr 01:09 AM
New ZealandDance review: 'The Kiss Inside'The Kiss Inside, an exposition on the primal search for ecstasy, finds him in a new frame of mind though, with an underlying wryness to his observations, anger mitigated, the passion wiser.17 Apr 12:08 AM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Dominic HoeyTourettes, real name Dominic Hoey, is a local poet, rapper and spoken word performer. He talks drugs, politics, Grey Lynn and more with Jennifer Dann.15 Apr 05:00 PM
New ZealandNZ dancer on Paris stageA young Kiwi will fulfil a dream today when she dances lead ballerina in Swan Lake, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet.07 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentReview: Bard's rom-com a crowd-pleaserThe fact that Shakespeare wrote a play called Love's Labours Won is beyond dispute, though no copy has been found.27 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentReview: Don Quixote, Royal NZ BalletOn a sunny terrace “somewhere in La Mancha”, all is swirling skirts, clicking heels and the colours of sunshine.26 Mar 10:23 PM
EntertainmentAuckland Arts Festival review: iTMOiA tormented shriek, a sudden drop into darkness and a tall figure in robes emerges from the shadows, ranting.19 Mar 09:09 PM
EntertainmentFather of Afrobeat lives onAs Adesola Osakalumi speaks, the native of The Bronx, New York, slips between his own accent and that of Nigerian activist and musical legend Fela Kuti.18 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentKids cotton on to White showEntertaining a discerning audience of 2- to 4-year-olds is a never-ending challenge for British theatre artist Andy Manley.17 Mar 04:00 PM
