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Theatre review: Once on Chunuk Bair, Maidment Theatre
In this superb Auckland Theatre Company production of the Gallipoli play, twelve angry men fill the stage with presence and charisma, increasing the under-fire excitement of a battlefield tragedy.

Theatre review: Annie
In an age of diminished expectations Annie offers an unabashed celebration of the irrepressible optimism that fuels the American Dream.

Movie review: Good Vibrations
DJ-turned-record shop and record-label owner Terri Hooley (Dormer) was responsible for championing punk music and ignited the scene in Belfast during the 1970s.

Concert review: Larry Carlton, Bruce Mason Centre
Given the battery of foot pedals and phalanx of guitars some rock musicians have available on stage, you'd conclude a single six-string must be an instrument of limited musical language .

Concert review: Julia Deans, Town Hall
Machine-made smoke danced in the beams of light in the Concert Chamber as a packed house waited for the musicians to take the stage.

Theatre Review: The Mother... with the Hat, The Basement
This highly entertaining, funny dramedy more than lives up to its actual title which is deemed too rude to print in full: this "mofo" show delivers fruity words with relish.

Theatre review: Shadowland, The Civic
There is absolutely no doubt that the artists of American dance theatre company Pilobulus are supreme masters of the ancient art of shadow play.

Movie review: Grace of Monaco
There have been many rumours about the delayed release of French director Olivier Dahan's Princess Grace biopic, mostly concerning creative differences between the director and American distributors The Weinstein Company.