review

It’s not often you have a crowd singing along and dancing in the aisles at an orchestral concert, but nothing could have been more natural at Saturday’s fun and fabulous DSO Plays Abba concert.

I have reviewed many choirs, some with origins dating from the 19th century.

Dunedin Town Hall was the venue for Sunday afternoon’s well-supported concert by Cellists of Otago and Dunedin City Jazz Orchestra.

A large audience was treated to a delightfully witty walk down literary memory lane on Saturday at Dunedin Public Library in A Rare Public Appearance by Miss Georgette Heyer.

Meantime is the title of Majella Cullinane’s latest collection of poems.

Lovers of the "cosy English murder" will no doubt enjoy this "cosy Kiwi murder" story, especially if they happen to be from Hawke’s Bay where the dastardly deed is set.

One of the formative history books I read in my younger days was Alistair Horne’s remarkable account of the war of 1871, The Fall Of Paris.

The Graduate Choir New Zealand kept a good-sized audience spellbound in St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday evening.

Packed stalls greeted the reformation of the Bee Gees at the Regent Theatre on Saturday night.

Calefax's encore of Moondog’s laid-back New Amsterdam closed their performance before a highly appreciative audience, which filled the stalls at the Glenroy Auditorium on Friday evening.

Superb performances of a globe-crossing repertoire delighted large audiences for the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra’s popular matinee series concerts at the weekend.

In this fantastic follow-up to the award-winning Duck Goes Meow, Mama cat is demonstrating core skills like pouncing, stalking, washing and climbing to her offspring.

A full house sat in silence for the performance selfportrait24: Ōtepoti - Dunedin, devised by Marcela Giesche, in the New Athenaeum Theatre yesterday afternoon.

High-energy dance sequences, songs and hi-jinks come thick and fast in Taieri Musical’s hugely entertaining production of Footloose.

Anyone who saw comedian Dai Henwood’s interview with Jaquie Brown on The Project about his bowel cancer will not be surprised at his frankness about living with a terminal illness.