Remix a modern take on classic play about jealousy and racism.

The It company from New York City boasts 14 of the best dancers that the money of its founder and funder Wal-Mart heiress, Nancy Laurie, can buy and what those 14 fabulously honed and interestingly diverse beings can do is certainly superb.

Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.

Forget bleak Scottish moors, foreboding castles and cackling crones; Brett Bailey’s Macbeth, one of the Auckland Arts Festival’s topline imports, immerses us in the volatile brutalities of African politics.

An Auckland Arts Festival show doesn't just blow things up, blow things over, and blow people's minds, it proves that science isn't just for boys.

Congolese refugees, gun-toting warlords, multinational double-dealing and glittering Chinese imports are not things one would immediately associate with the opera.

Mirrored towers make up the art installation Field, by Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney, on display in Wynyard Quarter this month as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.

House of Dreams was an ambitious time trip courtesy of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, transporting us through the homes of 17th and 18th-century music and art-lovers.

For the next two weeks, across Auckland, more than 100 world class shows - local and international - will astound and entertain.

Auckland's Art Festival is filling the streets, parks and theatres for the next two weeks with light, colour and music. Find out what's on this week and our don't miss pics.

"It's going to be a family reunion mixed with work." Since his sister moved to the North Shore in 1999, David Shrigley has been a frequent visitor to New Zealand.

Groupe F's Skin of Fire at the Auckland Domain went off with a bang as fireworks boomed and the museum came to life as the backdrop for the spectacular sound and light display. For the show, part of the Auckland Arts Festival, Kiwi performers were suited head to toe in LED lights, and acrobats hung from the side of the museum, while a crowd of thousands watched on.

Elisabeth Easther takes a look at the Auckland Arts Festival’s crowd-pleasers and finds plenty to both amuse and delight.

Good humour softens collision of settler cultures, writes Paul Simei-Barton

Diving into The Auckland Arts Festival is bringing in two American indie bands who like to mix things up musically. Lydia Jenkin profiles Lake Street Dive.

Diving into The Auckland Arts Festival is bringing in two American indie bands who like to mix things up musically. Lydia Jenkin profiles Phox.

"I don't make lollies!" Lemi Ponifasio is talking about the often-extreme reaction to his latest production, I AM, from which many audience members walked out when it was staged at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.

With the ongoing diet of gallery exhibitions, theatre and comedy, Auckland's creative offering rivals any of the world's great international cities, writes Heather Shotter.