An artist wants to get her fish sculpture out of Fonterra's soon-to-be vacated Auckland head office.

The makers of this show have given themselves a challenge: they've attempted to adapt what is primarily adult literature for 4-8-year-olds.

The National Theatre of Scotland offers both history lessons and captivating drama in its trilogy of plays about the country's early kings being staged at the Auckland Arts Festival.

New Zealand's brightest acting and dancing talents have been pirouetting and singing their way around the stage in Auckland today.

If you stand on the edge of Danica Pond and start digging a tunnel straight through to the other side of the globe, you'll be in Spain.

A post-postmodern diva is about to take over the Auckland Arts Festival's Spiegeltent with her take on a Hans Christian Andersen folk tale.

The focus is on people's casual attitudes and everyday interactions, and Burch re-enacts several of her own experiences with angry humour and audience help.

Two Shortland Street starts will don wigs, make-up and bespangled evening wear to join Dragon's Diva Den as special guest female impersonators.

The centrepiece of new artistic director Francesco Ventriglia's first mixed bill programme for the RNZB is said to have changed ballet forever.

Four powerful local vocalists and a red-hot band take us on a journey through Dusty Springfield's remarkable life.

No one gets beheaded; some readers are displeased.

More than 10,000 tickets have been sold to the opening night of one of the hottest events on the Auckland Arts Festival calendar.

New Zealand Post, struggling with falling mail volumes, has put its art collection up for sale.

Auckland Arts Festival is a celebration, a time to come together each year as a community to share in the spirit and creativity of artists, and to celebrate our place in the world.

It's a dog-eat-dog world in this uncompromising reworking of John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera.

My grandfather's book of Sundowner columns in selected form is kind of my Bible. I still have dreams he is alive, if missing a few marbles, writes Alan Duff.

Collection of letters, photos and artworks shed light on key moments in nascent arts culture of 50s-80s.

Tributes to a "wonderfully spirited woman" are flowing as news of Kiwi actress Sophia Hawthorne's death spreads.

They're just photos of my friends, who were transexuals, dancing and having a good time.

A Wellington auction house is preparing to put some of the country's best paintings up for sale, including a Colin McCahon expected to reach more than $300,000.

Hopes of adding a Grammy to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's awards cabinet have been dashed after the accolade was handed to the Boston orchestra instead.

Australian Stuart Maunder has led the New Zealand Opera company for the past two years. He directed Tosca, now out in cinemas nationwide, and confesses to an unhealthy obsession with Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.