Sunday's German Christmas concert triumphantly signed off another successful year for Bach Musica NZ.

COMMENT: You want uplifting, pure unadulterated joy and access to your inner mind? Listen to Chopin.

The Ministry of Social Development is awaiting sentencing on breach of health and safety legislation after the 2014 Ashburton Work and Income office killings.

Billy Macfarlane has gone from living in a million-dollar Bay of Plenty mansion to the back room of his mother's house. Now he's waging war on P.

The beauty and mystique of Māori musical instruments were almost lost to the world. But Napier man Layton Robertson is playing his part to help revive them. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The Nutcracker ballet is as sweet as the Sugarplum Fairy herself.

Silo Theatre announces how it will celebrate 20 years; Auckland Fringe Festival announces its 2017 programme.

Veteran actor Rawiri Paratene will join the cast for Pop-up Globe's 2017 season.

Artists and actors are joining forces to raise funds for animal sanctuary Paws Awhile.

Briefs is perfect pre-Christmas cabaret for grown-ups.

Acclaimed author and illustrator Donovan Bixley shares tales of the books that inspired him.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes faces his fears - and writes about them, anyway.

Exhibition pays homage to outsider artist Sam Taare.

Ballet's former bad boy has turned his life around. Sergei Polunin talks to Helen Barlow

Johnny Marr: I'm not going to have my life story sullied by some bullshit agenda. I'll tell it really how it was.

The ukulele is bigger than you might think, especially with kiwi kids.

See this street ballet and you'll never look at a supermarket shopping trolley the same way again.

A stark image of three cows stranded on an island created by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake near Kaikoura captured global attention last week.

Comedy troupe the Improv Bandits celebrate 19 years.

Joe Goldberg's your average, cantankerous New York rare books seller. He's also an accomplished serial killer. When we meet him

Musician Tigilau Ness won this year's Vodafone NZ Music Awards roots reggae award. The 61-year-old father of singer Che Fu is a political activist.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's final town hall concert was a grand occasion with a near capacity audience warmly applauded by CEO

This successful, uber-stylish nightclub musical from Wellington's Tawata Productions feels like a dreamy album-length live music video.

There is an eerie prescience in the decision to stage Vernon God Little just as America succumbs to the belief that the frontman for

The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.

One Psalm inspires fascinating and individual responses from three composers.

NZ composer Jenny McLeod celebrates her 75th birthday with her biggest achievement to date.

Outstanding sculpture show raises money from Women's Refuge.

Aucklanders invited to see "raw art".

Values and self belief will strengthen Ria Hall's theatre debut.