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Regional Wrap: working with kelp in the Waitaki. Read more Audio

The stories of Roald Dahl have been hugely popular on stage and screen, and now, The Enormous Crocodile has been turned into a musical. Read more Audio

Award-winning actor Alison Bruce is one of the country’s most versatile and experienced stage and screen actors. 
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Tauranga Art Gallery reopens in $306 million redevelopment of city's cultural heart. Read more Audio

Fast Favourites: TV presenter and journalist Laura Tupou. Read more Audio

In 2023 Aotearoa lost one of its most beloved curators and supporters of contemporary photography, and Maori and Pacific art and artists, Ron Brownson. When he died Brownson was Senior Curator New… Read more Audio

Stage and screen veteran Fiona Samuel has been awarded this year's Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship by the Arts Foundation. Read more Audio

Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our regional wrap. KOAST Arts Trail has been taking place this Labour Weekend in the Bay of Islands and the Far North. The… Read more Audio

The Lion King, Matilda, Wicked... big musical theatre shows no signs of dying. In Aotearoa we may not have a West End, Broadway or the long runs of the likes of some megashows in Melbourne, but local… Read more Audio

Last month, a century-old Maori carving was restored and gifted to the British people. Carved originally in 1910, by master carver Tene Waitere, the pou was completed by his great-great-great… Read more Audio

"Anchor me, in the middle of your deep blue sea," sings Don McGlashan in one of his most beloved songs. McGlashan has, as a songwriter and sailor, been deeply influenced by bodies of water - rivers… Read more Audio

Arts News for 19 October 2025 Audio