On Friday, Janine Jansen is guest soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for its first Town Hall concert of the year, playing Tchaikovsky.

A tormented shriek, a sudden drop into darkness and a tall figure in robes emerges from the shadows, ranting.

Entertaining a discerning audience of 2- to 4-year-olds is a never-ending challenge for British theatre artist Andy Manley.

More than 50 years ago an artist from Auckland changed his name to Billy Apple and became a living brand. On the eve of a major retrospective of his life’s work, he talked to Greg Dixon about his past, his present and his future.

The It company from New York City boasts 14 of the best dancers that the money of its founder and funder Wal-Mart heiress, Nancy Laurie, can buy and what those 14 fabulously honed and interestingly diverse beings can do is certainly superb.

Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.

An Auckland Arts Festival show doesn't just blow things up, blow things over, and blow people's minds, it proves that science isn't just for boys.

Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....

For the next two weeks, across Auckland, more than 100 world class shows - local and international - will astound and entertain.

"It's going to be a family reunion mixed with work." Since his sister moved to the North Shore in 1999, David Shrigley has been a frequent visitor to New Zealand.

The Pacific Rim is reflected in the Auckland Arts Festival with art from Japan, New Zealand and Samoa. Six artists from Japan at the St Paul Street Gallery make considerable demands on the viewer. Three long videos are full of angst, examining Japanese so

Elisabeth Easther takes a look at the Auckland Arts Festival’s crowd-pleasers and finds plenty to both amuse and delight.

"Hold on," says the woman on the end of the line. "He is in rehearsal right now. I'll just go and grab him."

All artists take risks. Elliot Stewart once faced an oncoming train as he painted the inside of a tunnel.

I have always thought of Mere Boynton as one of Wellington's musical taonga; she trained as a singer at Victoria University and, in the 1990s, was a spellbinding performer at one of the city's....