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Review: <i>Marriage of Figaro</i> at the Aotea Centre
NBR New Zealand Opera's The Marriage of Figaro is as engrossing a night of theatre as one could wish for.
Review: <i>Pear Shaped</i> at The Pumphouse Theatre
This debut work by local drama teacher Andy Saker shows an easy familiarity with the North Shore's casual backyard culture.
<i>Review:</i> NZSO at Auckland Town Hall
Predictably, the star of last weekend's visit by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was Dame Malvina Major.
Much ado about loss of SkyCity Theatre venue
The SkyCity Theatre looks set to become a cabaret space or sports theatre, leaving a gaping hole in venues for the city's performing arts.
<i>Review:</i> Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's <i>Discover New Zealand Music</i>
There was a buzz and a bustle in the Town Hall foyer as punters collected tickets for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Happy Hour concert.
<i>Review:</i> Ute Lemper's Angels over Berlin at Auckland Town Hall
As she did at her exceptional Town Hall show in 2003, on this return visit Ute Lemper proved persuasively she doesn't merely deliver a concert of songs.
<i>Review:</i> Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at Auckland Town Hall
Poets of their Age presented three first-generation Romantic composers coming to terms with the expressive potential of the symphony orchestra.
Review: <i>Avenue Q</i> at The Civic
Opening with the eternal question - 'what do you do with a BA in English?' - Avenue Q dispenses a bright and breezy antidote to the pressures of life in the big city.
<i>Comedy Fest Review:</i> Jarred Fell, Pani & Pani
Fell, a 2010 Billy T. Award Nominee, is rude, suggestive and sex-crazed, asking the many audience members he uses during the show about their sex lives.
<i>Comedy Fest Review:</i> Tarun Mohanbhai, The Comediettes
There are fewer Indian jokes this year, even though they are clearly what the audience is after - the thick accents Mohanbhai did pull out had the room roaring.
Art of glass
Four glass artists tell us why they chose the medium and what inspires their unique creations.
<i>Review:</i> Charles Lloyd New Quartet at Bruce Mason Centre
At its most pure and best, jazz is a live art where musicians disassemble, explore, then reconstruct melodies and rhythms right before your ears.
Review: <i>Horseplay</i> at the Maidment Theatre
There are Baxter self-quotations and talk of cut-throats and fowlhouses for literary experts to spot, but you don't have to know a line of the great men's work to enjoy the play.
<i>Unsung Heroes:</i> Singing enthusiast discovers hidden talent in children
Choir teacher Rhondda Garland is serious when she says everyone can sing, or at least hit the right note with her help.
<i>Review:</i> <i>Tic Tic</i> at the Limelight Lounge
At the more refined end of the Comedy Fest spectrum is an elegant memoir chronicling Paul Barrett's life-long engagement with Tourette's syndrome.
Cultural immersion or imitation?
What do Maori haka, Fijian firewalking and yoga have in common? According to a book by Canadian writer Andrew Potter they are all part of an authenticity hoax.
Chinese audiences treated to NZ films
A New Zealand film festival to screen in China next month is aimed at showing Chinese audiences that anyone in New Zealand can be a successful film-maker.