What an inspired idea, devising a staging of The Odyssey with teenagers and children.

Everything from slice-of-life realism through to surrealistic flights of fancy are on display in the second week of the Short+Sweet Festival.

Reviewer Chris Schulz takes in A$AP Rocky's first New Zealand show.

She's very good to her mother," my own mother used to say, by way of drawing my attention to the dateless daughters of friends of hers.

This excellent production is a slug of rich, complex whisky on a dark and stormy night.

Misfits, murderers, heroes and lovers all troop across the Herald Theatre stage this week in 11 short plays ranging from farce to melodrama.

He hardly needs the attention, but the new album by Kanye West is receiving overwhelming praise from critics after it leaked early online.