Catherine Zeta-Jones, Douglas Hodge and Sir Alan Ayckbourn were among the winners at Sunday night's Tony Awards.

The Maori New Year festival Matariki gets bigger every year. This year Taonga Whakaari: The Inaugural Maori Playwrights Festival has been added to the calendar of events in Auckland and Papakura.

Contemporary dance is enjoying an explosion in popularity, from belly dancing to street and ballet styles.

NBR New Zealand Opera's The Marriage of Figaro is as engrossing a night of theatre as one could wish for.

Jacqueline Smith ponders what entertainment you can and cannot share with parents.

Michele Hine is revelling in a trio of rich maternal roles _ from Go Girls' downtrodden parent, to fading theatrical star, to hell-bent control freak in the Auckland production of The House Of Bernada Alba.

Dame Pat Evison, a much-loved stalwart of New Zealand radio, television and theatre who died at the weekend, will long be remembered for her colourful contribution, colleagues say.

One of New Zealand's best known actresses, Dame Pat Evison, has died at the age of 85 after a long illness.

This debut work by local drama teacher Andy Saker shows an easy familiarity with the North Shore's casual backyard culture.

Adam Loosley, the Canadian skater who plays Mr Incredible in Disney On Ice. He's been skating since he was three years old, but swapped competing for the bright lights and bulky costumes of Disney shows five years ago.

Opening with the eternal question - 'what do you do with a BA in English?' - Avenue Q dispenses a bright and breezy antidote to the pressures of life in the big city.

There are Baxter self-quotations and talk of cut-throats and fowlhouses for literary experts to spot, but you don't have to know a line of the great men's work to enjoy the play.

Dark takes his cue from mysterious electronic producers like Burial, whose identity was a closely guarded secret until he was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.