EntertainmentArts Festival Review: The Show Must Go OnJerome Bel's <i>The Show Must Go On</i> is not so much a dance show as a show about dance. Its conventions, constructions, its expected forms, are mostly stripped away.17 Mar 11:32 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: RaptWhen Douglas Wright sets his stage with a big grey wall, it's a wall with an enigmatic, palpable life of its own. 16 Mar 11:08 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Paul Kelly A-Z, Town Hall Concert Chamber Russell Baillie reviews the first night of Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly's Auckland Arts Festival season.16 Mar 08:15 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Spirit of India 2011: Shehnai and fluteRajendra Prasanna comes from generations of Indian master musicians. On Tuesday, thanks to him and his three colleagues, a rapt audience fell under the spell of a music in which time itself seemed almost to stand still.16 Mar 12:39 AM
EntertainmentSundance Film Festival comes to LondonRobert Redford says he is planning to launch a four-day version of the Sundance Film Festival in London.15 Mar 04:30 PM
OpinionJames Griffin: In celebration of infrastuctureIn Auckland, we're in the middle of an Arts Festival. All over town there are actors, musicians, dancers and pornographic puppets doing their artistic business at myriad venues.11 Mar 08:30 PM
New ZealandA monumental gift of history for Gulf's futureBernard Orsman talks to the people behind a most generous offering to Auckland.11 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: The Manganiyar SeductionThe 42 Indian musicians of <i>The Manganiyar Seduction</i> work their wiles in the glare of red and light-bulbs, piled up in a grid inspired by Amsterdam's red-light district.10 Mar 11:27 PM
New ZealandArtist finds inspiration in birds of gulf islandsWildlife artist Chris Gaskin spends hours drawing the intricate patterns on a bird.10 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Martha WainwrightMartha Wainwright describes her look as "ageless" - she is poised on the stage dressed like a school-girl with hair all wispy like her grandmother's.10 Mar 12:02 AM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: May BMaguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.09 Mar 10:41 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: La OdiseaTeatro de Los Andes, based in Bolivia, offered to stage their "earthquake play" here instead of <i>La Odisea</i>, but were turned down for logistical reasons. 08 Mar 10:28 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory ChurchIf you are looking for a show that is funny and uplifting, it is unlikely that you would settle on something that has interminable and suicide in its title.08 Mar 04:30 PM
TravelDon't miss: Bonnaroo Music and Arts FestivalNamed by <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine as one of 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll.08 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Beautiful MeThe stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.07 Mar 10:12 PM
