Norton's excitability still locked on maximum as 14th series starts, writes Colin Hogg.

On-stage chemistry and audience rapport keep the laughs coming during a weekend of adventures.

The best thing about the Royal New Zealand Ballet's biennial travelling show is getting up close and personal with performances in smaller venues.

Russell Baillie reviews Television's Auckland show.

Auckland's Sam Prebble of Bond Street Bridge admits to something approaching obsession after reading about Robert Falcon Scott's fatal expedition to the South Pole in 1912.

Richard Curtis, who wrote the screenplays for Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill and was the writer/director of Love Actually.

This part of the world doesn't lack for docos on Sir Edmund Hillary. And arguably this latest big screen one doesn't tell us anything countless small screen studies over the years haven't already.

We are Pasifika was a big night for Manukau Symphony Orchestra, and we were in the stadium of the Vodafone Events Centre rather than the customary concert hall..

Prisoners certainly holds you captive. From its deer-hunting opening scene, to its vexing conclusion two and half hours later, this crime thriller drags you into its world of dread and hurt and, at its own deliberate pace, barely lets up.

Formally rigorous and supremely controlled, this wonderfully designed and costumed biographical drama by the austere and provocative Dumont moves so slowly it can seem to be happening in real time.

It's been 12 years since Beyonce last graced a stage in New Zealand, but the moment she strutted on stage through the midst of her all girl band, and parted her sea of 10 dancers.

It was a brave venture by Bach Musica to move from the suburbs to a sparsely populated town hall for its performance of Mendelssohn's St Paul.

Reviewer Rachel Bache went along to One Direction's final Auckland show and came away impressed at an epic pop set.

Friday night at Tempo Dance Festival 2013 was all about Footnote's final offering in its Made in New Zealand series. And what a way to go.