Aussie-based showbiz star Jay Laga'aia is returning to New Zealand for his first major home-turf role in a decade.

Arts supporters are getting used to having to fund new public works themselves, so far over $600,000 of donated money has been put into public artwork in Hamilton.

Aspiring, novelists, poets and playwrights were paid to write by the Sargeson Fellowship, a scheme now at risk, writes Graeme Lay.

Open a cupboard at the new Artstation show, Cupboards, and you'll find shelves loaded with nostalgia.

When I first heard that Barbara Anderson had died I toured our bookshelves looking for the book that had me fall in love with her.

Janet McAllister reviews Coronation Street On Stage and finds it a thin and airy skit show with the production values of a smash hit musical.

Choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet take the biblical story of the Tower of Babel with its smiting of the human race into painful divisions of nationality and language.

The renowned poet Hone Tuwhare wrote a poem entitled, A Pakeha Friend Tells a Maori Joke.

Book clubs, commuters and celebrities have gone wild for Gone Girl, the smash-hit thriller that has Hollywood in a spin. Tim Walker talks to author Gillian Flynn about being this year’s literary sensation

The Auckland Arts Festival's centrepiece demonstrates what happens when the sophisticated elegance of commedia dell'arte collides with the eccentric weirdness of classic British comedy.

Auckland Arts Festival celebrates Benjamin Britten's centenary not once, but twice next week.

Exhibitions that run during the Auckland Arts Festival should have some special factor that lifts them above the run of the mill.