After creating a sensation at the previous Auckland Arts Festival, the creators of The Arrival have returned with an exquisitely crafted rhapsody of image and movement-based theatre.

Programme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair

Bernadette Rae talks to the man many consider the guru of New Zealand dance, master choreographer Douglas Wright.

Heroes 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."

The 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.

Jacqueline Smith's week of tv, music and movies.

When is a dance work not a dance work? asks Bernadette Rae about an Arts Festival piece which mixes French intellectualism, untrained performers and Lionel Richie.

Rebecca Barry talks to Kiwi opera singer Kristen Darragh about her drive to perform around the world.