Justin Gregory

It's Macbeth but not as we know it. South African director Brett Bailey's radical adaptation of the Verdi opera opened this week at the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Week one of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival is over and with it some big shows have been and gone. Audio

As the saying goes, if you want a job done well, do it yourself. And a community group in inner-city Auckland has done just that. They took a grim and possibly dangerous pedestrian tunnel and… Audio

The 2015 Auckland Arts Festival is two days old and last night, French pyrotechnics masters Groupe F premiered their new show at Auckland Domain. Audio

The 2015 Auckland Arts Festival starts today with a very big act performing in a quite small venue. Audio

Plant a tree and a bird will come, says artist Niki Hastings-McFall. But will they still turn up if you wrap the tree in thousands of artificial lei? Niki is doing just that in her new work, Fale Ula… Audio

Fringe Festivals are usually great opportunities for testing new and edgy kinds of art and performance. But this year's Auckland Fringe sees a slightly older avant-garde form making a strong comeback… Audio

Not far from Auckland's Queen Street is Kelmarna Organic City Farm, growing vegies and grazing cows within sight of the Skytower. But the farm faces an uncertain future. Audio

Artist Paula Schaafhausen uses the materials and traditions of her Samoan home to talk about the threat climate change poses to Pacific nations. In her new exhibition, Ebbing Tagaloa at Otara's Fresh… Audio

Truth, trust and telling your story is what Manawa Ora: Stories from the Street, is all about. Marginalised South Auckland rangatahi are teamed-up with top artistic mentors to develop a creative… Audio

Michelle Dickinson is Nanogirl, a superhero teaching kids that science is fun, and she has won the 2014 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize Audio

Curator Daniel Michael Satele wants us all to think more about water. So he's put together an exhibition of works about water and called it The Drowned World. Named for novelist JG Ballard's dystopian… Audio

Auckland's Artspace Gallery has just appointed their new director. Adnan Yildiz trained in Turkey and has worked as a curator and researcher throughout Europe - and he's been given a license to change… Audio

Seventy five years ago several hundred Chinese women and children arrived in New Zealand, fleeing the Japanese invasion of China. These were the wives and children of the Chinese men already here. The… Audio

South Brighton artist Michael Springer is moving on from building temporary driftwood constructions on his local beach since earthquakes drove him out of the central city. Now he's advertising for his… Audio

London 1973. A frustrated young painter named Grahame Sydney gets an offer from his parents in Dunedin. They will support him for a year while he paints and then reassess. Forty years later the result… Audio

You could say composer Dudley Benson is having a pretty good month. His 2010 album Forest has just been remixed and rereleased (as Deforestation) and earlier this week the Arts Foundation handed him a… Audio

Would you live in a haunted house? Justin Gregory asks why people avoid - or are attracted to - scary places. Audio