Arts

After several false starts and other disruptions thanks to the pandemic, Wellington's Footnote NZ Dance company is about to hit the road to celebrate its 35th birthday. The icing on the cake for the… Audio, Gallery

A serial killer determined to go down in history terrorises the small New Zealand town of Lentford in Nikki Crutchley's latest crime novel The Murder Club. The murderer taunts investigative journalist… Audio

Southland's writers and readers are finally getting their own Festival thanks to a group of booklovers who believe it's past time the region celebrated its rich literary heritage. Local writers are… Audio, Gallery

On the Laugh Track over the years we've run the gamut of funny-haha, funny-peculiar and funny-what are they thinking of? Today's guest may very well cover all of the above. The multi-talented Emma… Audio

Enforced lockdown for a dancer is especially hard, but for Aucklander Lomina-Meteri Araitia it gave her time to breathe, but also to grieve. Right now though she's about to show a new work created as… Audio

There is no stiffer upper lip in Britain than that of Muriel, the stoic wealthy widow whose son takes advantage of her naivety in one of Alan Bennett's famous Talking Heads monologues, "Soldiering… Audio

A performing arts programme for prisoners in the Bay of Islands is being held up as an example for other prisons to follow. Redemption Performing Arts Whanau and Redemption Arts Tuakana Teina Mentors… Audio, Gallery

Human-sized golden kowhai flowers, the extinct huia brought back to life and soldiers marching to war in Featherston... The last ten years of back-breaking work creating large-scale, public artworks… Audio, Gallery

Change hit Ireland like "an express train" and transformed it from a backward country into one that the Irish are proud of, says one of its most famous sons. Audio

Jazz saxophonist and producer Nathan Haines has been through somewhat of a metamorphosis in recent years. He's evolved from edgy wunderkind to humble legend, via sobriety, fatherhood and cancer.

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Documents released by the Government show ministers may not have had the powers to allow Hollywood film crews into the country.

Overseas cast and crew from productions, including Avatar and Lord of… Audio

The Taxpayers' Union has generated a lot of heat but not much light when it comes to its digs at Creative NZ grants. We explore who they go to, and what the money is used for.  Audio

Music venues and theatres in Auckland can fling their doors open again, now that the city is back to Covid-19 alert level 1.

They've endured more than six months of uncertainty, the inability to… Audio

Ryan Smith explores the music, atmospheres and sounds that inhabit the shadowy world of horror films. From the scores of early silent German expressionist cinema to 21st century Hollywood and Japanese… Audio

Music journalist and blogger Simon Sweetman is releasing his first poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism. Video, Audio

Tamaki Makaurau's annual week-long festival celebrating Auckland visual arts and artists kicks off this Saturday and one of the many excellent exhibitions you can enjoy as part of it is a collection… Audio

Tributes have been pouring in for Eddie Van Halen - who's died from cancer at 65-years-old. Perlina Lau takes a look back at the guitar legend's life - and how the world's reacted. Audio