Historical fantasy is a lavish and charismatic affair, writes Nick Grant.

You could just be mesmerised by the sheer physical beauty of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's Swan Lake. It is the stunning production's fourth season, its best ever and a perfect celebration of the company's 60th anniversary year.

The poetic cynic Quentin Crisp was wonderfully quotable - a latter-day Oscar Wilde, made of more stoic, less squashable stuff.

Nick Grant finds this week's TV treasures.

Playwright April Phillips has created a finely crafted script that serves up four vignettes.

Keeping up with the goss on two famous streets could lead to TV soap dependency, writes Colin Hogg.

Taki Rua presents a boldly experimental piece of theatre that is as intriguing and idiosyncratic as the title.