For once, a play's tagline is accurate: this drama-on-ice is pitched as "a woman, a man and a penguin" - and they're not kidding.

Simon Prast is a man on a mission.

"In what other industry would you be expected to take options that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars?"

E-reader competition is hotting up.

If able soloists did not always lift Charpentier's characters from the page, Rosser's dramatic conception did not err.

School holiday theatre shows are all over town, writes Dionne Christian.

Two favourites and one new work are on show in the Young and Hungry line-up, writes Dionne Christian.

Offerings to suit a range of tastes are on show at Auckland's galleries this week.

You can get away with a lot when your superhero arsenal includes a "lasso of truth" and the ability to fly.