The pathway to James Ehnes' superlative Elgar Violin Concerto was a beguiling one.

Samoan Language Week runs until Samoan Independence Day on June 1, so the season of this bilingual play set about Mau - the non-violent Samoan independence movement - is timed very nicely.

It is never difficult to find contemporary events that point to the relevance of Titus Andronicus, but Shakespeare's reflections on the extremes of human cruelty are given particular poignancy by the recent murder of a young soldier on a London str

When Ursula Robb, New Zealand dancer turned global star, takes the stage in her stunning solo Faune the everyday world stops.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Friday concert took its title from Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending and its quarter-hour of pastoral rapture was a sober entree.

An Israeli drama directed by Nadav Lapid, Policeman is a peculiar beast that unfurls in fits and starts, yet never fulfils its dramatic potential.

After a commercially successful but critically derided Part II, The Hangover gang returns to try to make things right for the finale marketed as "The End".

Based on the excellent eponymous novel, this political thriller is set in 2011 as anti-government protests and police brutality flare in Lahore.

Nick Grant steels himself to travel down memory lane.

Every two years, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra presents a concert of half-a-dozen workshopped compositions in a specific genre.

New York four-piece Vampire Weekend have never seemed lacking in inspiration or momentum.

Tenacious D's jokes didn't have the subtlety for an 80 minute set but they made up for it with musical talent and charisma, Lydia Jenkin writes.

I had an awful dream, the sort of thing television critics can suffer, and in it I imagined a new TV series.

Jonathan Fuller's Music Box was a trippy welcome to Karlheinz Company's Sunday concert.

You've got something special if you can appear on stage in a red leather suit with matching cap and glasses and still come off as charming.

After starring in several big blockbusters in a row, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson attempts something a little mellower with this moderately entertaining action drama.

The beautiful poster for Norwegian ocean epic Kon-Tiki, a stronger piece of art than the poster for Life of Pi, will draw a sizeable audience even before people have seen the trailer for this classic adventure tale.