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Dance Review: Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One
Atamira Dance Company's's beautifully crafted new Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One draws on intricately connected layers of dance, video imagery and narrated text to share poignant ancestral stories from the Ngai Tuhoe lineage.
Te Urewera - from the beginning
Rebecca Kamm looks at a dramatic work paying homage to the eviction of the Tuhoe people.
Theatre Preview: West Side Story, Pacific Events Centre
Students from Manukau Institute of Technology will put a South Auckland spin on the much-loved musical West Side Story.
Theatre Preview: The Factory, Mangere Arts Centre
The world's first Pacific musical is inspired by our nation's immigrants who each made sacrifices for a chance in New Zealand.
Jeremy Wells' NZSO doco to screen this Sunday
The unlikely documentary that paired the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with famed satirist Jeremy Wells makes it to the small screen this Sunday.
Circus Incognitus: Clowning around
Scott Kara talks to Circus Incognitus star Jamie Adkins, who insists he's just an average guy.
Saltimbanco: Power of balance
Jacqueline Smith reports from behind the scenes of Cirque's Saltimbanco, which is swinging into New Zealand for the first time.
Raising the bar: Soap - The Show
Acrobatics on a bathtub? Dionne Christian talks to one of the stars of Soap - The Show, set to wash over New Zealand audiences.
Theatre Review: Short+Sweet Theatre Festival, Week 1
Ten short plays by emerging actors take a conservative look at human relationships.
Waters to bring his Wall to town
Pink Floyd's The Wall will be playing at Vector Arena this week, brought to life by former bassist-singer Roger Waters.
US tour means Indian Ink's cup runneth over
Having toured successfully and extensively through New Zealand, Australia and Asia, theatre company Indian Ink is the first from this country to be signed by American artists' representative David Lieberman.
Theatre Review: The Tuakana/Teina Project
A "tuakana" is a mentor (literally "older sibling") to a "teina", and this $20 double bill includes Strong Hands, a contemporary drama by Michael Rewiri-Thorsen and Te Awarua, a tragicomic melange of history and myth by tuakana Albert Belz.
Theatre Review: The Brothers Size, Herald Theatre
Silo Theatre's ambitious season opening is an all-too-rare opportunity to see the work of an African-American playwright on the Auckland stage.