The 2014 Wallace National Piano Festival had been resonating around the University's School of Music for three days with masterclasses and celebrity recitals.

The talented cast of 14 throw themselves into the enterprise with plenty of verve and emotional honesty and there is a wildly anarchic quality to the storyline.

Auckland Chamber Orchestra's flexibility in terms of personnel has always enabled Peter Scholes to create enterprising programmes.

It was a thrilling launch for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Wounded Hearts concert, under Rafael Payare, on Friday.

Okareka Dance Company has hit the jackpot with this exploration of the strength, the spirit, the wiles and the primal beauty of women, specifically Maori women.

We asked Christchurch-based APNZ reporter Kurt Bayer, who reported on the quakes and their aftermath, to view Hope and Wire. Here's his take.

I shouldn't be reviewing this game. I find the violence in mixed martial arts repulsive. But then again, this is just a video game.

Chris Schulz reviews new albums by Kiwi hip-hop heavyweights PNC and P-Money.

It's probably around the two-hour mark of this big, bloated, bombastic spectacle of a sequel that you might start thinking to yourself, why are we doing this again?

If you're one of those people with a weakness for laughing in the wrong place then it might be best you don't watch War News, writes Colin Hogg.