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The importance of being modest
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.

Ballet meets Valentino
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.

Private Lives: Degrees of separation
Silo Theatre's staging of Noel Coward's Private Lives brings the withering satire of love, marriage and divorce into the modern age. Dionne Christian reports.

Pop art: San Francisco's Amazing Bubble Man
The Amazing Bubble Man tells Lydia Jenkin a few trade secrets about his super-sized bubbles.

Theatre success playing away from home
Two theatre companies return from overseas with a deeper understanding of the world they inhabit, writes Dionne Christian.

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

Sydney: Classic 80s film gets a musical lift
Carol Smith gets carried away with the stage return of an old favourite.