The annual Pacific dance festival returns, with a wider range of work than ever before.

Actor Blair Strang prepares to return to the stage in a devil of a role.

This year's Samoan Language Week theme is: Kindness given, kindness gained.

Even on the smell of an oily rag, you can still make bright theatre, says costume-maker.

Using sets of pens, Kate Hursthouse makes an art form from words.

At NZ Opera, wardrobe and makeup prepare for The Elixir of Love, writes Dionne Christian.

Pool (No Water)'s reach exceeds its grasp in an intriguing but muddled production.

Bernstein and an Italian journey; William Dart reviews NZSO's latest Auckland concerts.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest from Walter Mosley, Stella Duffy and others.

A Wellington "Arts District" will be a destination in its own right, say business owners.

South Auckland kids say new friends, confidence and a wizard of a time make arts fun.

A little known museum archive devoted to NZ women inspires play for 125th suffrage year

COMMENT: PM wants arts and culture in all areas of NZ society to create a new future.

Three representatives from arts and literary worlds share their wish list with government

Survey shows New Zealanders love the arts - but young people don't feel creative.

World's leading jazz man Christian McBride on how to make it: "Don't be an a***hole".

Chamber Music NZ join renowned US critic and stunning soloists on brave new venture.

Dionne Christian celebrates a fabulous gathering that shows us new ideas for old problems.

Dionne Christian asks artists what 'place' means to them. Made with funding from NZ On Air

Anthony Byrt on the art world's brightest young things.

'I was kind of expecting it to be a lesson in how to be a good loser'.

Karl Ove Knausgǻrd is a global literary phenomenon; now he's in Auckland.

It's nearly the weekend - here's ideas on how to spend it from TimeOut and Arts writers.

Get ready to unleash your inner werewolf and see the moon on screen as never before.

Why top music critic Alex Ross, in town for the writers festival, hates classical music.

Auckland Writers Festival brings words - in all their forms - alive on stage.

The importance to aspiring young poets of Auckland Writers Fest guest poet Lang Leav.

And then there were four - New Zealand's best books of 2017 announced.

Two years after joining Aladdin, NZ actor George Henare is still awestruck by its scale.

Diana Wichtel, author of Driving to Treblinka, is a finalist in the Ockham NZ Book Awards.