Janet McAllister reviews Coronation Street On Stage and finds it a thin and airy skit show with the production values of a smash hit musical.

Big, bleak, beautiful Central Otago is the star of Top of the Lake, the new Jane Campion-driven television series, which began here on UKTV last night.

There was more than one tale to be told in NZTrio's Convergence concert on Sunday, particularly by the featured New Zealand composers.

Substantial classical music has been meagre in this Auckland Arts Festival.

Few of the 1000-plus who packed the house for the final show of Paul Kelly's main-centre tour would have been familiar with his latest album, Spring and Fall.

It was difficult to resist the world of Whaka-Aria Mai: Opera in Te Reo.

Prepare to do some serious thinking during Jane Campion's series, writes Nick Grant.

First steps to autonomy are chaotic, reports Sarah Lang.

Choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet take the biblical story of the Tower of Babel with its smiting of the human race into painful divisions of nationality and language.

Neil Young refused to play a greatest hits set, but his concert was crazy and confounding, exciting and exhausting, writes Russell Baillie.

There were a few bumps leading up to Auckland Arts Festival's first-centenary tribute to Benjamin Britten.

With the 60s generation of rock fans now at Gold Card age, this concert perhaps flagged what we might expect in the future: Steve Miller with his excellent band - which included the great Spector-era soul singer Sonny Charles - started just after 7pm.

There is a middle ground in current affairs on television. It's called Native Affairs and it runs for an hour from 8.30 on Monday nights on Maori TV.

It may have been a little early for English high tea, but the cabaret-style seating in the concert chamber aimed to recreate the spirit of an 18th century German coffee-house.