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.

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.

He's made himself a pop sensation and teen heart-throb on the basis of his songs rather than his looks, and for that, you have to give ginger-haired Pom Ed Sheeran a tip of the cap.

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?