After clunky start, musical's tempo keeps on rising.

Keshia Tunks grew up singing in church; her next role brings her full circle - sort of.

OPINION: I would love to meet a man who would enjoy all our dates, writes Carey Purcell.

Auckland teen Sammie Campbell gets lead of Sophie for Mamma Mia! returning in March.

Whether you go to the Good Place or the Pleasuredome, it's a guaranteed good time.

Thanks to a Kiwi New Zealanders get to watch hit musical Matilda, writes Kirsty Wynn.

Tickets to a "hit rock musical" about women's suffrage are being discounted for women.

Stars are about to shine at Auckland's annual cabaret spectacular, says Dionne Christian.

Opera singer, musical theatre star and Harley Davidson fan Helen Medlyn is a biker nun.

Matilda - The Musical means a family reunion for one of its star and NZ opera boss.

Dionne Christian talks to the man who put the music and lyrics into Matilda the Musical.

If La La Land wasn't quite enough of a musical for you, there's good news in store.

High-energy production captures the boundless optimism of the era.

Tuesday's Academy Awards announcement netted the musical 14 nominations.

For Westport teenager Stanley Reedy, performing in the Auckland Theatre Company's production of Billy Elliot was just the start of his acting career.

This successful, uber-stylish nightclub musical from Wellington's Tawata Productions feels like a dreamy album-length live music video.

A group of tipsy women disrupted a performance of hit Aussie musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert this week.

The latest Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus has a global passenger list, writes Stephen Jewell.

Tickets go on sale on Friday for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and West Side Story, two of the world's most popular musicals.

Home and Away actor Ray Meagher says he's counting the days until he reprises his role as Bob the mechanic in the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Ariana Grande will fulfil a life-long dream of playing Penny Pingleton in a "Hairspray" television series.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning a musical based on the love match between Seretse Khama, who became Botswana's first President, and Ruth Williams, a white English woman.

The stage musical of the 1983 dance film takes itself too seriously.

He debuted a new band and a new album at the South by Southwest music conference with a brace of songs that he's framing as his last hurrah.

Fine lead performances in revival of clasic Lloyd Webber musical help make local production a huge achievement.

This production, like a couple of other traditional-style Auckland Theatre Company shows this year, falls rather flat - and it's not just the off-key singing.

One of our finest acting and directing talents turns his attention to the classic musical Guys and Dolls. By Dionne Christian

As the Japanese logo is brought to life for a global touring show, Julia Llewellyn Smith discovers the amazingly far-ranging appeal of the squeaky clean "cat".