In a brazen one-man performance, Potato Stamp Megalomaniac depicts a real life roller coaster breakdown.

In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else.

Hot on the heels of 100 Maori and Pacific artists visiting Guam for the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts, Salisbury is the next destination for a contingent of NZ artists.

This year's big important NZ rock book has arrived and it's by the guy who founded Flying Nun. Here, he comes Clean about why and how he wrote it.

COMMENT: I'm going to selectively quote from a Pablo Neruda poem titled To Wash a Child.

At just 21 years old, Zac Johns plays a pivotal role in the latest production of Evita. You won't see Johns on stage, though.

Stephen Jewell talks to British author Chris Cleave about bravery, racism and how he avoids getting stuck in a writing groove.

When it comes to crime fiction, New Jersey-based writer Harlan Coben is Big Business.

Gates' 2016 list of reads, complete with an animated video describing his picks.

Kiwi ballerina Hannah O'Neill has been named dancer of the year at the prestigious Benois de la Danse competition, often described as the Oscars of dance.

Eve de Castro-Robinson introduced her Karlheinz Company programme as music that was vivid, visceral and singular.

The 34-year-old son of a Samoan church minister has done TV, film and stand-up comedy but says theatre is his first love.

It goes to show, as Hare says, the audience - the way it reacts and responds and its current concerns - shapes theatre.

At 82, Gloria Steinem - the woman who spearheaded the women's liberation movement in the United States and beyond - was smoking hot.

Decades of hard work for Stephen Daisley, a former shearer, farmer and soldier turned author, have paid off.

Doris is a housewife and businesswoman taking her first steps in the corporate world; George is an accountant away from home at a conference.

The works, for the most part small statues and ceramics, are displayed on carpet mats on the floor.

One New Zealand fiction writer will wake up $50,000 better off on Wednesday thanks to a new literary prize.

The inspiration that got one Auckland teen aiming for the stage was Dorothy, the green and yellow spotted dancing dinosaur on The Wiggles.

There are two Block Parties happening in Auckland: which is the one for you?

COMMENT: You know life can change for a few people to something unrecognisable. But I don't think the basics change, at least with most, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: We thought we knew who Americans were, but this year we have seen a new side to their character that has set me wondering about its origins.

Simon Prast graduated from the University of Auckland with a law degree before the lure of the stage proved stronger than that of the bench.

Ralph "Karate Kid" Macchio was happy to oblige with an interview or two to promote the performances of Flashdance, the musical his daughter Julia stars in.

An inspirational drama teacher who travelled from Gisborne to England to see actor Jeremy Irons perform in a play had a welcome surprise at its conclusion.

COMMENT: Four hundred years after the writer's death it's time to acknowledge Shakespeare has less to offer the modern world.