An exclusive first look at what's on at the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival.

Schubert's Piano Trios are exquisitely caught in the palette of their times.

Auckland Arts Festival 2017 promises spectacle.

Artist has collected his favourite coffee cups from cafes around the world - and now he's sharing his collection.

Sam Brooks, Geordie Holibar and Tim Earl will spend their early summer taking one of Brook's award-winning plays on an Auckland and North Island tour.

Young and dazzlingly talented APO Composer-in-Residence delivers.

NZ composer Juliet Palmer asks, 'how can one live in these times and not be enraged?'

The University of Auckland's Maidment Theatre is to close for good, as the price-tag to fix it soared to more than $16 million.

Digging up the body of a young Christchurch father five years after his death would be a "significant breach" of Maori custom, a court

The Havelock North Village street carnival on Saturday was "the biggest yet", says Havelock North Business Association marketing manager

COMMENT: Given that violence continues to have a central role in storytelling, maybe it is time to revisit the boundaries of just how much is too much.

Don Juan is an energetic, irrepressibly gleeful and good-natured evening out.

APO's next concert is a welcome opportunity to sample the first commission from its resident composer.

Sea calmly meets sky in Stanley Palmer's mature and masterly images.

Author Jay McInerney admits he shares some characteristics with his protagonist, Russell.

Corporate art collections unlocked during Artweek tours.

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.2 & Concert Fantasia is a superb symphonic adventure from the New Zealand Symphony.

A former west Auckland cop has swapped pounding the beat for writing grisly crime novels after being struck down with a rare autoimmune disorder.

Playing video games inspired dancer Joshua (Fale) Faleatua.

Mex Festival's Day of the Dead celebration will feature skull candies, skeleton costumes and tables with photos of the dead.

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi ensured an exhilarating night with the APO.

Rufus Wainwright admits opera can be both daunting and dull. But he's determined to prove it doesn't have to be.

Artists and entertainers may think their work is a labour of love, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be paid a fair wage for it

Auckland Shakespeare Company's Lucrece confronts the way rape debases our humanity.

COMMENT: Melania Trump has been pooper-scooping after Donald since 1998, but she will never be cast as a victim, in her eyes or anyone else's.

A retired Kiwi academic is behind the decision to name Christopher Marlowe as co-author of three of William Shakespeare's plays.

It's all new for Pop-up Globe which returns with four more plays, a different location and groundbreaking interior design.

COMMENT: Libraries are not in decline because of some natural progression, but because of the cultural vandalism of cost-cutting.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Final Symphony was a marketing triumph, selling out its first performance and occasioning a Saturday night re-run.

Nostalgia is one of the reasons updated versions of so many old movies are returning to our screens these days.