Hugh Jackman has thrown himself a birthday party with 4500 guests, but they had to pay to attend.

New show a grandiose spectacle, says Barney McDonald.

Forget about Australians appropriating our cultural icons; the Scots are getting in on the act.

It was called, optimistically, Viva Forever! But six months of scathing reviews and audience indifference has forced the producers to call time on the Spice Girls musical which is to close.

The Spice Girls musical will close 10 months early with reported losses of more than NZ$9 million.

Pacific Les Mis musical hugely leavened by romance, humour and funky 70s style

Anne Hathaway is to follow her Les Miserables role by appearing in another movie musical opposite a real life rock star.

As part of Auckland's expanded Pride Festival, an enterprising Australian-Kiwi partnership offers a sweetly flavoured piece of musical theatre.

Les Miserable star Russell Crowe has helped promote an epic parody of the film by the South Korean air force.

Stars step out for the press screening of the new Spice Girls musical, Viva Forever!, at the Piccadilly Theatre.

The British press have savaged the much-hyped Spice Girls musical Viva Forever!.

A new extended Les Miserables trailer has been released. Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe star in the movie, which is an adaptation of the successful stage musical in which paroled prisoner Jean Valjean strives for redemption. It is set for New Zealand release on January 10 next year.

Mega-musical Mary Poppins is finally coming to town. Lydia Jenkin went behind the scenes of the show in Perth

Hamilton the Musical Trailer. Video / Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lydia Jenkin's week of TV, movies, music and more.

First a TV show, then albums, now it's 3D concert movie. Des Sampson reports on Glee's latest excursion

Casting director Robert Urlich says he truly understood the extent to which Glee had become a cultural phenomenon when poring over about 40,000 applications he received from Gleeks looking to star on The Glee Project.

The world's biggest rock'n'roll musical is finally heading to New Zealand - and oh, what a night it will be when Jersey Boys opens at the Civic in April next year.

The sequel to Phantom of the Opera has hit Australia and it is a treat for the ears and eyes of Lloyd Webber fans.