If you go down to the dole queue today, "Weird Al" Yankovic should probably be lingering about.

Sunday, a week ago, the nation's biggest television channel TV One seemed to suddenly remember what it was here for.

The Doric String Quartet's Town Hall concert fully deserved the crowd that Auckland mustered for Saturday's Tristan und Isolde.

Chris Molloy's atmospheric new drama, produced by Taki Rua, is ostensibly a period piece via reminiscence.

Erebus doco Operation: Overdue was a hellish story told hellishly well

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.

Hunting and gathering the staple diet for weekend viewers with a good dollop of cooking and some home truths, writes Colin Hogg.

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.