Category: Arts & Culture
Sam Smith rewards his audiences’ enthusiasm at his first NZ show. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of artists considered to be great singers perform live. Whitney Houston, Cher, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga, John Legend, Dionne Warwick, Rihanna, Damien Rice, Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Meatloaf, Elaine Page, KD Lang, – but none […]
Ricky Martin was in Auckland on Friday night to premiere his One World tour. Levi Joule went along and filed this review. The 10,000 who packed Vector Arena may have been half of the crowd that last saw the pop prince play at Mt Smart in 2000, but those who did show up on Friday […]
Jenny Rankine hails from Adelaide in Australia but has lived in Aotearoa for more than half her life, and identifies as Pakeha. She has worked as a public servant, a print journalist, in Auckland Rape Crisis, and as an editor of Broadsheet, New Zealand’s long-running feminist magazine. She and her partner have 12 nieces and […]
Tiny Theatre at lesbian hub Garnet Station licensed café comes up trumps again with some of the most outstanding performance poetry our reviewer Sandi Hall has seen in more than twenty years. Imagine going for a country walk on a sunny day and coming across a house with wide open windows and doors allowing you […]
Stroppy Old Women, a new book by Paul Little and Wendyl Nissen, launched Friday night at Grey Lynn Library Hall, Sandi Hall was there and gives us her take on the book. In our Rainbow community, it’s obvious that anxiety about body image is highest among men. The aging body is of particular concern, with […]
Last year’s Night Sky was heralded as one of the creative and critically acclaimed NZ productions of the year. As the Blackbird Ensemble prepare to follow up next week with the debut of their new production Dreams, Oliver Hall spoke to star Claire Cowan about their latest creation. Tell us about Dreams? Dreams is an […]
Auckland Theatre Company’s upcoming production of A Doll’s House promises a fresh spin on this classic tale of the not-so-blissful domestic life of the Helmer family. Luke Alexander Wilson spoke to award-winning Kiwi author Emily Perkins, who was tasked with penning a new adaptation for the season. How does your adaptation offer audiences a new […]
Anika Moa talks to Oliver Hall about relationships, families, love and music. Anika Moa says coming out was not difficult for her, when she made her preference for women public in 2007 to Canvas magazine’s Claire Harvey. She says that prior to that she couldn’t come out due to her partner at the time, but […]