Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival starts its 18-day run of theatre, music, dance, cabaret and more in early March. We asked curators ...

Legendary Kiwi band Pluto have had a mixed run of luck over the last few years. Reunited and back on a roll in 2019, the band suffered a cruel ...

For composer John Psathas, the opportunity to collaborate with Moroccan singer and poet OUM and oud virtuoso Kyriakos Tapakis on a work marking ...

Christchurch’s contribution to the Royal New Zealand Ballet story takes centre stage in the company’s 2024 programme with a production of Swan ...

As a portrait photographer, Ebony Lamb has an eye for the defining detail. As a songwriter, she shows that same clear insight. We talk timing, ...

Harry Parsons had a Smokefree Rockquest win, a debut single, a degree in pop music and a clear trajectory to stardom ahead of him. The only ...

Hands up if you are one of the 40,000 people at a Come Together gig over the last three years? The series of rock concerts recreating classic ...

The Royal New Zealand Ballet celebrates its platinum anniversary this month with Lightscapes. Over the decades, Christchurch’s community of ...

For Kiran Dass, programme lead for WORD Christchurch 2023, the future is bright for writing and publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kiran is ...

A retrospective exhibition honouring one of New Zealand’s most decorated and best-loved contemporary artists, Dame Robin White, opens this ...

It really is 20 years since Bic Runga released Beautiful Collision. She tells Cityscape about its genesis, and how much she is looking forward ...

As Aotearoa gears up for its second Matariki holiday, plans are well under way at Christchurch’s Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre for nearly ...

One of the great joys of a film festival is uncovering a hidden gem among the big hitters on the programme, a film you had never heard of before ...

It all began on 30 June, 1953. At the Playhouse Theatre on Auckland’s Karangahape Road, Danish dancer Poul Gnatt, the founding father of ballet ...

One of Christchurch Art Gallery’s best-loved paintings, Petrus van der Velden’s 1872 work Burial in the Winter on the Island of Marken, also ...

Fergus Grady is in his third year as director of the French Film Festival Aotearoa and he still can’t quite believe the silver lining to his ...

For Hōhua Ropate Kurene, one of three artists chosen by Christchurch’s Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre for its winter Creative Residency ...

From being world famous in New Zealand, comedian Melanie Bracewell jumped the ditch and landed a spot on Australian television. She’s famous ...

Be it a music festival, film festival or wine and food, the seasoned punter will be very familiar with discovering a hidden gem among the big ...

Devin Abrams is an Ōtautahi boy, a founding member of Shapeshifter, successful music producer, and mastermind behind the solo project Pacific ...

Australian rock legends the Hoodoo Gurus will tour the country for the first time in two decades this year. What's Hot New Zealand talks to ...

After 20 years of playing festivals here and everywhere, Fat Freddy’s have the drop on how to make the most of the occasion. Saxophonist Scott ...

Music fans across the country have plenty to choose from over the next few months, with an amazing array of international artists heading our ...

Jane Austen, Billy T James, teen angst and political drama are all part of the compelling collection of plays that will take to the boards ...

What's Hot New Zealand went along to the first performance of the national tour of Call of the Huia, an exploration of lost Aotearoa art ...

We've been waiting (im)patiently since the Rocket Man's last New Zealand shows were cut short at the beginning of 2020, and now our patience has ...

As we gear up to welcome Guns N' Roses back to New Zealand this December, we're stoked with the great news that local legends Alien Weaponry are ...

We've been eagerly anticipating the release of The Black Seeds' new album, and now it's out the band are hitting the road with a good ...

Wellington musician Bianca Bailey AKA Wiri Donna’s new record is out, and she heading out for a nationwide tour. The six-track EP Being Alone ...

Emerging Ōtautahi singer-songwriter Sam Heselwood hit No. 4 on the charts with his single ‘18’, and now he’s following it up with his latest ...