Arts
Shining light on dance
Jennifer Shennan reviews The New Zealand Dance Company's three piece work Lumina, which all focus on light. It's currently touring the country, following on from a successful international season in… Audio
Online viewing picks of the week (24 May)
The best* online video we’ve been watching over the last seven days including Jackie Chan: the master of action comedy, Hollywood homages Citizen Kane and Knight of Cups gets the ‘City Symphonies’… Video
Wellington's Circa celebrates 40 yrs of theatre
Wellington's Circa Theatre is celebrating 40 years of bringing great theatre to the capital - much of it showcasing homegrown New Zealand acting and playwriting talent. Audio
Thingyan! Burmese celebrate their New Year
It’s Thingyan time. Auckland's Burmese community are celebrating their New Year Festival, showcasing the seven ethnic nationalities with cultural and traditional performances, food stalls and more. Audio, Gallery
Thingyan! Burmese celebrate their New Year
It’s Thingyan time. Auckland's Burmese community are celebrating their New Year Festival, showcasing the seven ethnic nationalities with cultural and traditional performances, food stalls and more.
AudioSet Phasers to Stun: Marcus Berkmann on 50 years of Star Trek
50 years ago the Starship Enterprise set off on a five-year mission to boldly go where no man has gone before. It ended up as a cult classic and a commercial flop. Audio
Theatre Review with John Smythe
John Smythe from Theatreview.org.nz reviews the Indian Ink Theatre Company's production of THE ELEPHANT THIEF. Audio
Art with Joe Prisk
Auckland artist Joe Prisk previews this week's Auckland Art Fair. Audio
TV Review - Melenie Parkes
Melenie Parkes is back on our Critics show again this week, this time with a confession about her TV viewing habits. Audio
New Zealand's top Speed Cuber
Some of the country's top Speed Cubers gathered in Wellington yesterday to try to become the fastest to solve not just in the standard 3x3 cube, but a whole range of puzzles, from big 7x7 cubes… Video, Audio, Gallery
Kiwi actress selected for prestigious London acting school
Keagan Carr Fransch will soon be able to count Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench and Vanessa Redgrave as her fellow alumni of London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she has just been… Audio
Painting Elephants - Bulbul Sharma
All over India this year, children in remote villages are painting elephants. Not the real thing, but half size fibreglass artworks. Helping them use art material they may never have seen before is… Audio
The Magic Flute
New Zealand Opera is hoping tried and trusted Mozart opera The Magic Flute will be a winner, but set and costumes aside, it all hinges on the singers. Lynn Freeman met two of the stars: Australian… Audio
Poetry on the Beach
Aucklanders love going to the beach but not all of them love poetry. Is it because they just haven't met each other yet? A poet and calligrapher think the obvious solution is to write giant poems in… Audio, Gallery
Jazz giant Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis will be part of Christchurch's in-crowd next week. The multi-Grammy award winning composer and pianist is headlining the New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival there. He's one… Audio
Plays with a Purpose
Palmerston North's Centrepoint Theatre is determined to get people thinking and talking about the current refugee crisis. It's hosting three plays questioning whether countries like ours have a… Audio, Gallery
My Shout: Another Round at The Thistle Inn
Maori chief Te Rauparaha drank there, suffragettes protested there, six o'clock swillers guzzled at the bar and both sides of the Springbok tour movement argued there. Wellington's oldest pub The… Audio, Gallery
The funny business of competitive tickling
Journalist turned documentary maker, David Farrier joins Wallace to explain his down-the-rabbit-hole experience making his film Tickled. Tickled began as a look at the world of competitive tickling… Audio
Mark Houlahan - Shakespearian Aotearoa
Shakespeare's work first arrived in Aotearoa on Captain Cook's Endeavour in 1769. Waves of later migrants then brought with them Victorian double-column small-type copies of his writing, and… Audio
Sara McIntyre: nursing and photos in Kakahi
District nurse based in Kakahi, and a photographer whose exhibition, Observations of a Rural Nurse, is showing at Anna Miles Gallery as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. Audio
