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Southside Arts Fest
The Southside Arts Festival premiere event Southside Gig is taking place at the TelstraClear Events Centre today. Hip-hop, B-boy breakdance and graffiti-art competitions are being held throughout the 12-hour event, which concludes at 9pm tonight.
The importance of being modest
He may be one of New Zealand’s best-known and honoured actors on stage and screen but Alan Perrott discovers George Henare is also one of the most modest.
Ballet meets Valentino
On the same plaza where models had strutted the runways just days earlier, it seemed like New York Fashion Week had been a mere prelude to NYCB's glittery fall gala. The evening's star was legendary designer Valentino, and the focus was on clothes, onstage and off.
Theatre review: The Gift
Engaging but puzzling drama explores morality and the consequences as opposites attract.
Private Lives: Degrees of separation
Silo Theatre's staging of Noel Coward's Private Lives brings the withering satire of love, marriage and divorce into the modern age. Dionne Christian reports.
Orchestra funding strikes the wrong note
The battle over public funding for our major orchestras has all the ingredients of comic opera, if not farce.
Pop art: San Francisco's Amazing Bubble Man
The Amazing Bubble Man tells Lydia Jenkin a few trade secrets about his super-sized bubbles.
Theatre success playing away from home
Two theatre companies return from overseas with a deeper understanding of the world they inhabit, writes Dionne Christian.
Mary Poppins: Singing it from the rooftops
Mega-musical Mary Poppins is finally coming to town. Lydia Jenkin went behind the scenes of the show in Perth