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![TJ McNamara: A journey through history](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
TJ McNamara: A journey through history
Exhibitions that run during the Auckland Arts Festival should have some special factor that lifts them above the run of the mill.
![Theatre comes to Dominion Rd](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Theatre comes to Dominion Rd
One of Auckland's best-known streets, Dominion Rd, will be sharing some of its history in a unique way this weekend.
![Circus meets hip-hop in dazzling display](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Circus meets hip-hop in dazzling display
Screens filled with red clouds at dawn start this contemporary circus with hip-hop styling, but instead of a shepherd's warning, they herald a city delight.
![Songs from the source of Scots' theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Songs from the source of Scots' theatre
The Scottish National Theatre makes an exuberant return to ale-house culture with a riotously funny and at times tenderly lyrical tribute to Scottish narrative ballads.
![Review: Chinese theatre a revelation](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Chinese theatre a revelation
This rich 1999 experimental classic from China is stylish, hip, humorous, streetwise - and hopelessly romantic: under youth's swagger are youth's desperate illusions.
![Review: Rare mingling of wonderful music and enchantment](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Rare mingling of wonderful music and enchantment
We had come to the Civic Theatre to hear Haydn and Mozart from Kronos Quartet; in partnership with pipa virtuoso Wu Man, the Americans were offering a rare mingling of music and magic.
![Seriously Playing the Fool](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Seriously Playing the Fool
Micahel Hurst dons the Fool costume for King Lear, three decades after first tackling the role. By Barney McDonald.
![Revisiting the 17th century with elegance and attitude](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Revisiting the 17th century with elegance and attitude
The cover of Max Emanuel Cencic's Venezia says it all. The Croatian countertenor is all elegance, in dinner jacket and cravat, in front of an ornate wallpaper that might adorn the walls of a Venetian palazzo.
![Pasifika kicks off at Western Springs](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Pasifika kicks off at Western Springs
Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.
![Son for the return home](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Son for the return home
Auckland Art Gallery director Chris Saines leaves next week for Queensland after 17 years of working towards the gallery’s expansion and rejuvenation. But he’ll be back one day, he tells Linda Herrick.
![The Breath of the Volcano](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
The Breath of the Volcano
Pictures from the opening night of the Auckland Arts Festival performance by French pyrotechnical wizards Groupe F
![Artist pays tribute to a Kiwi classic](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Artist pays tribute to a Kiwi classic
Artist Ralph Hotere, who died last week, has been immortalised by a street artist in Auckland.
![Dazzling, hypnotic wizards](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Dazzling, hypnotic wizards
Just go see this. French pyrotechnical wizards Groupe F offer a superlative, splendiferous, explosive extravaganza. Artistic director Christophe Berthonneau and his team, and Red Leap Theatre, are to be congratulated.
![Review: En route, Auckland CBD](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: En route, Auckland CBD
Walking tours - especially those guided by a remote, apparently all-seeing, all-knowing central HQ - are full of tantalising possibilities: where will I be going? How will I know how to get there?
![Review: Cantina, Aotea Square](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Cantina, Aotea Square
Cantina opens with a velvety voiced crooner promising to "shoot the moon right out of the sky" and honours that with an exhilarating acrobatics display set in the seductive ambience of a 1920s speak-easy.
![Review: The Factory, Q Theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: The Factory, Q Theatre
Pacific Les Mis musical hugely leavened by romance, humour and funky 70s style