When translation programmes go wrong, the results can be hilarious.

Creative excellence and exquisite performances close this year's Tempo Dance Festival.

Does Priscilla, Queen of the Desert still wear the crown?

Shakespeare fans rejoice - Pop-Up Globe is back.

Rodney Bell's Meremere is a beautifully crafted hour of beguiling story-telling through dance.

The eight expert players of the London Conchord Ensemble delivered a high-minded Friday night variety concert.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's Aotea Centre recital was a courageous undertaking for the 72-year-old soprano. It was an evening of some entrancement.

It's a long way from Hollywood to Henderson, but it's about to get a taste of movie-making magic like nothing it - or the rest of New Zealand - has seen before.

Billy Elliot, a story of triumph over adversity.

The weather didn't ruin the first day of the Auckland Diwali Festival, but protesters had a go at spoiling a "joyous moment", an organiser says.

Freeing the Memory is one of the large standout images on display at Artweek.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Indian musicians combine talents for unique Diwali Festival performance.

A CD that well and truly proves Polish music is more than Chopin mazurkas and the 1960s radicalism of Krzysztof Penderecki.

The latest Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus has a global passenger list, writes Stephen Jewell.

Classical music meets high-tech gaming at the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

Revisiting classic plays provides a lesson for younger actors and entertainment for audiences.

Overseas performers flock to perform at Auckland's Diwali Festival.

A road trip with a legend changed one actor's life, writes Dionne Christian.

Auckland Council has pulled down a public art installation depicting homelessness because they thought the piece was a pile of trash.

Architecture students learn building playhouses with no budget from recycled materials only isn't child's play.

The deaths of high profile performers has prompted actors to set a world-first service especially for those in the entertainment industry.

RED HERRING by Jonothan Cullinane (HarperCollins, $37) Auckland 1951: trams run along Queen St, women aren't allowed in the RSC

Dancer Rodney Bell spent 3 years homeless in San Fran; his show Meremere reflects this.

VOU Dance Fiji invokes traditional ceremony and ritual.

It's not difficult to get swept up and away by Great Fire of London musical.

Auckland's inner city lanes are getting a temporary make-over for Artweek.

Experts concerned by role of social media

Taiwanese tribal woman Jouan Pan is in New Zealand with a mission - to get her "long lost cuzzies" to visit "home".

Jodie Dorday talks about how a call out of the blue saw her abandoning life in Indonesia for the Auckland theatre.

Steve "Shag" Hansen is usually pretty quick to remind any of the Super Rugby franchises about the expected standards of a professional