A stage full of actors at the height of their powers--what could be better? A review of Sean Matthias' production of Waiting for Godot
Read MoreA new kind of fiction
Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall skillfully dances the line between fiction and biography
Read MoreThe painfully awkward Head Girl
Novelist Margaret Drabble's self-exposure in a new autobiography is both uncomfortable and illuminating
Read MoreRossini the serious comedian
Gioacchino Rossini wrote serious comic opera that is still relevant
Read MoreThe problem with the Spanish play
Wellington's Circa Theatre tackles the difficult Spanish drama Blood Wedding with mixed results
Read MoreRubbish as art
Why do museum and gallery directors give space to rubbish masquerading as art? Because it suits the establishment
Read MoreArt's not easy
For an insight into the theorising and scientific nous that goes into fine art, head to Te Papa's Impressionist exhibition
Read MoreDistinguishing the noise from the melody
Alex Ross has written a useful and user-friendly history of 20th century music—from an American point of view
Read MoreEight bouquets and one brickbat
Keith Ovenden's cultural highlights of 2008
Read MoreRestless, energetic, and still learning
Under-appreciated here in New Zealand, 75-year-old sculptor Tony Stones is continuing to create ambitious bronze works in England and China
Read MoreSo far away and so smug
How can we experience art properly if we don't see it firsthand? And what effect does this have on our insular national arts culture?
Read MoreA world of appalling social alternatives
Superb production of Jenůfa allows us to walk into a world we have, thankfully, lost
Read MoreFiona Hall is no enigma
Australian artist Fiona Hall, now showing at Wellington's City Gallery, fritters her considerable talents on market-driven conceptual art
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