Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's 2017 programme is a staggering achievement.

Do you have the imagination to design for another world?

Black Friars Theatre has been working for the past 10 years in South Auckland to're-story' conventional narratives.

The Basement Theatre's spring season is blossoming with funny and poignant new Kiwi plays.

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say it warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.

COMMENT: My father's animal drawings are finally framed and up on our walls, 24 years after his death in 1992.

Kiwi youngsters are reading more than ever - and they prefer diving into a physical copy of Harry Potter or The BFG to ebooks.

NZTrio continues to bring the music of the East and West together.

A residency at the Smithsonian in Washington DC or one on Waiheke at the island's community art gallery?

It's been described as looking like a glass jewel box and it's about to become a jewel in the crown of the Auckland arts scene: it's

A Judy Millar retrospective shows the visceral strength of the artist's works.

Two of NZ theatre's fiercest female voices, Hayley Sproull and Jo Randerson, to be heard in Auckland.

Super-soldier trilogy's final story has hope, but don't hold out for a happy ending, writes David Larsen

Joel Granger is experiencing the kind of success young perfomers hope for, but are warned is unlikely to happen.

An expatriate Kiwi writer who has lived in half a dozen countries says New Zealand culture is uniquely hostile towards women. Katherine

Greg Fleming rounds up the latest in crime fiction.

Gruesome Playground Injuries is a slightly perplexing, but absorbing play.

Tickets go on sale on Friday for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and West Side Story, two of the world's most popular musicals.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is one of our most successful opera singers; now he's coming home to play the lead in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The University of Waikato, home to the Conservatorium of Music, has added a unique new course - the only one of its kind in the country training New Zealand opera stars of the future.

Actor Rob Mokaraka's one-person play, which tells the story of his depression-driven police standoff, to open in Auckland.

Viva Voce is possibly the country's liveliest chamber choir; next weekend, itsHeavenly Bodies concert is inspired by The Bard's image of the orbs of heaven.

All eyes may have been on the full frontal nude depiction of Andrew Little, but painter André Hemer was the big winner at the Wallace Art Awards this week.

Whanganui artist Mark Rayner says he is pleased to learn that opposition leader Andrew Little is amused by the artist's naked impression

Proponents of eminent Maori architect John Scott have made a last-ditch effort to save one of his revered works on the shores of Lake

Tim and Sherrah Francis amassed the greatest names in New Zealand art for more than 50 years. Kim Knight talks to their son about the sale of his parents' unique collection.

When it comes to Kiwi Big Band jazz, Rodger Fox is the man who set the template; now he's touring the country with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

As I child, I remember having terrible stage fright. I was terrified of drama class and anything that required me to speak in front

A few words with Elizabeth Whiting, lawyer-turned-costume designer.

Work by contemporary Maori and Pacific photographers travels across the ocean to join 10,000 images from all over the world at the Pingyao International Photography Festival.