review

Summer 1988.

The very best concerts are those when you can’t decide afterwards which item you liked most and so it was with "Joyeux Noel!" on Friday.

When a studio such as Disney puts the time and effort into making an animated movie, it has to fail pretty spectacularly for there not to be a sequel.

An energetic, committed and tuneful cast acted, danced and sang their way through a unique and wonderfully entertaining version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre.

The stage at Allen Hall on Friday evening was sparsely set for an amusing and insightful take on the range of mental distresses which plague us all to various degrees.

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Dunedin Sound infused University of Otago in the 1980s - can they come together in a coherent and satisfying whole?

You do not have to be a Paddy Gower fan to enjoy reading about his life and times.

People used to meet cute in films but in Memory they meet creepy.

There is something about Irish Celtic music and the way it creates such an emotive atmosphere where anything is possible ... even magic. 

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.