After The Monogram Murders, her first novel starring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Sophie Hannah was keen to write a second.

It takes courage to be funny, say the cast of Silo Theatre's latest comedy romp.

Steve Braunias pictures himself living in one of the photographs in his new book - a photo essay about sad, beautiful shops in small towns.

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

Auckland Arts Festival 2017 promises spectacle.

Wild, rhetorical and witty painting - Dick Frizzell show proves why he's one of our best painters.

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

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.

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 teenage son of a Christchurch man at the centre of a five-year exhumation row today made an emotional plea in court to say, 'Please leave my Dad in the ground'.

COMMENT: Step out of the shot and let it be about someone else for a while - it's not always about you.

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.

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

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

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

Playing video games inspired dancer Joshua (Fale) Faleatua.

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

You'd think actor Mick Innes would be more cautious about staging another one-man show at the Basement Theatre; last time he was there, he came close to dying on stage.

On the eve of its Auckland show, Footnote dancers talk about the impact of costumes.

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.