Auckland Arts Festival

The 2015 Auckland Arts Festival has only a few days left to run. Audio

Where the Apple Falls reviewed by Nick Atkinson, Billy Apple: the artist has to eat like everybody else and Uku Rere Nga Kaihanga Uku & Beyond reviewed by Janet McAllister. Audio

The Book of Everything reviewed by Janet McAllister, The Kitchen by Paul Bushnell. Audio

Director Roysten Abel serves up drama and food in The Kitchen - a story about cooking as a metaphor for life, playing at the Auckland Arts Festival. On stage a couple cook up steamy vats of payasam, a… Audio

Artist of Ngai Tahu and Samoan heritage, who is working on a major commission for Christchurch's justice precinct, and has a retrospective exhibition in the Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary gallery presents: Model World, A Delicate Balance and IOIOIOIOIOIO reviewed by Janet McAllister, Lake Street Dive by Amy Jansen and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet by… Audio

It's Macbeth but not as we know it. South African director Brett Bailey's radical adaptation of the Verdi opera opened this week at the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Blackbird: Lonnie Hutchinson and David Shrigley reviewed by Janet McAllister, macbEth reviewed by Paul Bushnell. Audio

Tai Whetuki and Fale Ula reviewed by Janet McAllister, Close Encounters: PAH by Raewyn Whyte. Audio

I AM reviewed by Raewyn Whyte, Limbo reviewed by Ruth Spencer and Phox reviewed by Nick Atkinson. Audio

Peter reviews the performance by Canadian early-music ensemble Tafelmusik at the Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Jonathon reviews the first weekend's theatre action from the Auckland Festival, including Lemi Ponifasio's 'I AM'. Audio

Sophie Roberts returns to the Silo Theatre to direct 'The Book of Everything' for the Auckland Festival. Audio

Director of South African performance company Third World Bunfight, whose latest production is a radical take on Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in modern-day Congo, and playing at the Auckland Arts… Audio

Invisible Energy reviewed by Janet McAllister; The Mooncake and the Kumara reviewed by Paul Bushnell; and Skin of Fire reviewed by Ruth Spencer. Audio

The 2015 Auckland Arts Festival is two days old and last night, French pyrotechnics masters Groupe F premiered their new show at Auckland Domain. Audio

Neneh Cherry with RocketNumberNine reviewed by Nick Atkinson; Water and Light reviewed by David Kelly; and Hikoi reviewed by Paul Bushnell. Audio

The 2015 Auckland Arts Festival starts today with a very big act performing in a quite small venue. Audio

Plant a tree and a bird will come, says artist Niki Hastings-McFall. But will they still turn up if you wrap the tree in thousands of artificial lei? Niki is doing just that in her new work, Fale Ula… Audio

Actor and director Nancy Brunning bases her first play, Hikoi, on her own family story and sets it in the 1970s and 80s - the years of Bastion Point and Springbok Tour protests, predictions of the… Audio