William Dart reviews the APO's latest concert.

The Pop-up Globe reminds us the Bard knew a thing or two about entertainment, writes Paul Simei-Barton.

Bruce Springsteen showed the crowd who was the Boss at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium.

Disappointment with one CD turns to delight for William Dart who is alerted to a composer most of us should get to hear.

Theatre reviewer Janet McAllister takes a theatrical trip to the supermarket.

This is a dance show worth rushing to be part of, writes Raewyn Whyte.

The component parts of Carl Bland's surreal mystery play present a cornucopia of theatrical delights.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra launched its main New Zealand Herald Premier series with John Rimmer's Vulcan, a fanfare it commissioned 18 years ago.

Provocative play prompts us to think before we speak.

Rectify is slow-cooked drama at its best

Sampha likes to sing sweetly about terrible, awful things. "I think they found the blood on me," croons this year's break out star early on in his debut album.

Is it okay to stage The Mikado in 2017? Most definitely, writes William Dart.

The first film adaptation of "mummy porn" global best-seller 50 Shades of Grey had audiences worldwide blushing, yawning and, in some

William Dart reviews the latest classical music CDs.

Novelty pop songs, fail compilations, dodgy bird banter and coffee orders being made during the weather. What is going on at Breakfast?

The last time we saw Migos, they were dealing drugs in Atlanta, Donald Glover's excellently adventurous TV series about the rise and

David Attenborough's original BBC series Zoo Quest is back on our screens - 60 years after it premiered. But this time, it's different.

William Dart reviews the latest classical CD releases.

William Dart reviews the APO's first concert of 2017.

William Dart finds a "dark, bleak history" unfolding in a superb new classical CD.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction.

By rights, grime should be well and truly dead, a musical genre consigned to the history books. Someone forgot to tell Wiley.

Lion is a remarkable true story well told, a real tear-jerker, and a great advert for Google Earth.

Three albums in and the question has to be asked: have El-P and Killer Mike lost their Midas touch? Nope.

Mesmerising tour de force belongs to Natalie Portman.

The musicality of the dancing, the lyricism of the music, and the clarity of the underlying narrative are unified and the ending is satisfying.

REVIEW: Russell Bailee says Will Smith may start out as a man who believes his own bull**** in 'Collateral Beauty'. He ends up in a movie that drowns him in it.

REVIEW: Thanks to the brooding charisma of Hardy and the scale of the battle he faces, Taboo possesses a pulpy magnetism which cannot be denied.

Underneath the predictable All-American school experience, there's some real heart in this film.

Natalie Portman captures Jackie Kennedy's steely strength and intelligence perfectly, which elevates her performance beyond imitation.