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Theatre review: Arohanui: The Greatest Love
A traditional-style epic tale, this well-paced musical extravaganza is by turns cheesy, dramatic and genuinely moving.
Dance review: Prime Cuts at Tempo Dance Festival
The annual Prime Cuts showcase in this year's Tempo Dance Festival comprised just four works.
Theatre Review: Yours Truly at The Basement
Playwright Albert Belz has earned considerable acclaim for his treatment of Maori subjects but his re-telling of the Jack the Ripper story seems to be making a statement about the perils of pigeon-holing writers according to their ethnicity.
Theatre Review: Anything Goes at Civic Theatre
Cole Porter's smart-to-be-silly, witty-and-warm songs are so exceptional that they could pull this 1934 hit musical comedy through by themselves.
Anything Goes: All hands on deck
Anything Goes, set to open in Auckland, brings an ocean liner to the stage with plenty of familiar toe-tapping tunes, writes Dionne Christian
Janet McAllister: World Cup sitting duck for satire and dissent
The Rugby World Cup 2011 is good fodder for satire, and art is traditionally a burner as well as a builder of sacred cows.
Off to see the wizard
Once a munchkin himself, the director of the latest reincarnation of Oz tells Dionne Christian why he wanted to bring the Emerald City to a new generation.