Role in Scandal ‘life changing’

Darby Stanchfield describes working on Scandal as ”one of those life-changing experiences”. Chatting at a recent cocktail party at the Television Critics Association Conference in Pasadena, the 42-year-old Alaskan-born actress says she is loving playing crisis management investigator Abby Whelan on the hit US political drama

Review: Frente Cumbiero

MUSIC REVIEW: Frente Cumbiero James Cabaret, March 14 Sad to say but politics have always played a huge part in the music of South America, be it the suppression for many years of Tango by the ruling party in Argentina or Nueva Cancion in Chile as a voice against the rightist governments. But as South America flexes its political arm by way of natural resources such as gas and oil, the West has started to listen

Preview: A give-and-take experience

It would be a great accomplishment to have just one show in the New Zealand Festival but this year choreographer and theatre artist Lemi Ponifasio has had the task of preparing two – Stones in Her Mouth, opening tonight, and The Crimson House. In 1995 Ponifasio founded the company MAU in Auckland where he is based, a group of dancers and artists from New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.