Chamber Music New Zealand's QuintEssence was touted as a mini-festival, marketed with crass images of Mozart and Brahms as sparring pugilists.

At the galleries with TJ McNamara

A joyous partnership brings sparkle to underrated classical gems.

As a crisp digest of a lurid true-crime story that sprawled over 10 years, the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox deserves credit for concision.

It's called The Magnificent Seven which marks it as a remake of a remake - the 1960 original Western lifted its plot from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

Director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' time travelling, gothic novel about children with peculiar abilities is filled with immaculate costumes, imaginative monsters and an overall attention to detail that you don't get at the movies every day.

Award-winning show celebrates the irrepressible spirit of a life devoted to champagne and pretty things.

COMMENT: On the strength of the pilot, most viewers should be sticking with This Is Us for at least a few more episodes to see how it all plays out.

New ensemble production of Wild Dogs Under My Skirt breathes new life into Tusiata Avia's remarkable collection of poems.

NZTrio's Sunday concert achieved a meld of East and West that fully justified its title, Glow.

In the first of a new series, Janet McAllister writes the first chapter in her mission to visit every one of the region's 55 libraries

Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg's latest CD is a wonderful souvenir of a concert that too many missed.

In Viky Garden's largest work, the face emerges proudly from a passage of light.

A$AP Ferg's third Auckland appearance ended in riotous scenes last night, as a full scale stage invasion ended the show.

While you're unlikely to include Bridget Jones's Baby on your 'best of' list, it's certainly a fun Friday night film that will put a smile on your face.

Just when it seems the year in movies has already reached peak kid-in-the-wilderness, along comes Captain Fantastic.

TVNZ's newest drama Dirty Laundry tries to find comedy in domestic violence, with uncomfortable results.

It may be a rather perplexing premise, but somehow the chaotic gags and sharp script translates into a fun, sweet story about family and belonging.

The Basement Theatre's spring season is blossoming with funny and poignant new Kiwi plays.

Two days in, the new look Breakfast team have got over their opening morning nerves. But is the show worth watching?

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Sweeney Todd, once described by its composer, Stephen Sondheim, as a movie for the stage, had a dream venue in The Civic.

Vivat's latest project is ambitious: 10 CDs spanning 100 years of song from 1810 to 1910, decade by decade.

A Judy Millar retrospective shows the visceral strength of the artist's works.

Not many television series would cast an actor the calibre of Sam Neill only to kill him off less than half way through - but such

The Rodger Fox Big Band and NZTO's Swing into Spring concert sets the party mood in a raucous fun way.

Gruesome Playground Injuries is a slightly perplexing, but absorbing play.

Boys Will Be Boys delivers a searing indictment of how workplace culture can enable and support sexual violence.

I don't how to break this news to you, but I think Tom Hanks might be cursed when it comes to air travel. We've seen him survive a

Victor Herbert is mostly remembered for his operettas, now a new collection of his orchestral music reminds us this man had a very different life before he succumbed to the lure of Broadway.