New Zealand is the second-best place in the world for expats, behind Singapore, according to a global survey.

A writer says she was "dumped on from a great height" by the literary establishment, after penning a report on why people are not reading Kiwi fiction.

Street Art - Now and Then reveals the true-life story behind the development of graffiti art in Auckland.

A ground-breaking New Zealand play is to be performed again, offering new roles for Pasifika actresses.

In Viky Garden's largest work, the face emerges proudly from a passage of light.

Cabaret festival performers try to pin down what their art is all about.

Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg's latest CD is a wonderful souvenir of a concert that too many missed.

The little show that grew into something massive promises more innovation.

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

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?

Vivat's latest project is ambitious: 10 CDs spanning 100 years of song from 1810 to 1910, decade by decade.

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.

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.

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

TJ McNamara's weekly round-up of the latest art gallery shows.

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.

Victor Herbert is mostly remembered for his operettas, now a new collection of his orchestral music reminds us this man had a very different life before he succumbed to the lure of Broadway.

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.