The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) opened its premiere season with a double-bill programme consisting of two strikingly different

COMMENT: The nuance and power of the the piece was indisputable, a monument to bravery and what television can still achieve if it aspires to.

The Real Housewives of Auckland might be appallingly timed but it is the most entertaining television of the year, writes Duncan Greive.

If the Legionnaire hat comes roaring back into fashion in New Zealand this summer, we won't need to look far to find the reason why.

If the title Venus in Fur sounds vaguely familiar you could be thinking of Velvet Underground circa 1967 or the 19th century erotic novel.

Auckland Opera Studio and its artistic director Frances Wilson should be very proud of giving Handel's Oreste its New Zealand premiere.

What: Resident by James Cousins Where and when: Gow Langsford Gallery, 26 Lorne St, to August 27 TJ says: Luminous, near abstract

A fantasy adventure filled with heart and soul, and beautiful animation.

No Man's Sky is a true sandbox game. Like actual real life space, it's overwhelming in scale, but endlessly intriguing.

Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage has always seemed a poor cousin to his more popular Hebrides Overture, despite its literary

The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest

The Shallows is is a B-movie hoot big on suspense and curiously low on gore.

There are some similarities in these two provocative tales of sexual tension by talented young New Zealand playwrights.

In the space of a week, two characters in different TV One comedies have innocently mistaken a vibrator for a kitchen utensil.

The intimacy of Auckland Museum's auditorium must have appealed to Javier Perianes, introducing his Fazioli recital as more of a family concert.

Review: Selena Gomez was open, honest, and all grown up.

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra take on the music of Ross Harris with excellent results.

TJ McNamara checks out new exhibitions from Elliot Collins and Daniel Crooks

With a finely woven blend of song and interview fragments Australian John Waters takes us inside Lennon's glass onion.

If you're after a cheap laugh you'll get one here, but these fabulous ladies are better off sticking to the television screen.

The weapon in this gripping and gruesome punk rock horror-thriller are many and various.

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HEALR is an intriguing exploration of the concept of wellbeing in 2016. Created and performed by leading dance independents, Rose

NZME's Head of Entertainment Joanna Hunkin and NZH Focus's very own sweetie darling Laura McGoldrick, delve into the new Ab Fab movie in style.

COMMENT: Seven years on the popular British show Time Team obviously left Gallagher with a strong sense for what audiences will find interesting.

The evening almost stole upon us. First up, clarinettist Julian Bliss gave us Debussy with pianist Sarah Watkins and, with shivery

Melodrama falls a little flat on debut but theatre company shows potential.

It was cheering that the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra opened its latest concert with an indisputable Strauss masterpiece.

Plopping the beloved characters from the riotous 90s British sitcom in 2016, drizzling them in Champagne and celebrity cameos, and seeing what comes out the other side.

COMMENT: I've loved the Harry Potter series and J.K. Rowling for over 10 years, but now, for the first time, I feel disappointed with her - and it hurts.