He may be one of New Zealand’s best-known and honoured actors on stage and screen but Alan Perrott discovers George Henare is also one of the most modest.

On the same plaza where models had strutted the runways just days earlier, it seemed like New York Fashion Week had been a mere prelude to NYCB's glittery fall gala. The evening's star was legendary designer Valentino, and the focus was on clothes, onstage and off.

Engaging but puzzling drama explores morality and the consequences as opposites attract.

The battle over public funding for our major orchestras has all the ingredients of comic opera, if not farce.

The Amazing Bubble Man tells Lydia Jenkin a few trade secrets about his super-sized bubbles.

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

Carol Smith gets carried away with the stage return of an old favourite.