In 2008, the Basement Theatre staged its first Christmas production to raise money for airconditioning. The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

Thomas Sainsbury is an award-winning playwright, but not all of his success has been easy to accept.

Tim Finn has created an engaging score for a hit Aussie musical.

A Roald Dahl classic comes to the Auckland stage.

Auckland's acting community recognises outstanding achievements at annual awards.

Byron Coll, best known as All Blacks super-fan Tim in thoseMastercard ads, helped Dan Carter pull an epic stunt on the entire team.

Harry Potter, the play, is as much fun as the preceding books and films, finds Stephen Jewell.

Silo Theatre announces how it will celebrate 20 years; Auckland Fringe Festival announces its 2017 programme.

Actor Rawiri Paratene can't seem to get enough of Shakespeare.

Briefs is perfect pre-Christmas cabaret for grown-ups.

"It was pretty odiferous," Auckland Live director of regional facilities, Robbie Macrae, said.

Smelly problem forces theatre show to move.

Comedy troupe the Improv Bandits celebrate 19 years.

A live version of hit TV show Fawlty Towers has canned its New Zealand tour, citing last week's Kaikoura earthquake among the reasons.

There is an eerie prescience in the decision to stage Vernon God Little just as America succumbs to the belief that the frontman for

Values and self belief will strengthen Ria Hall's theatre debut.

Absurdist comedy will confirm your wildest fears about the way the world is going.

Coming soon to theatre near you: Shortland Street - The Musical?

An exclusive first look at what's on at the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival.

It takes courage to be funny, say the cast of Silo Theatre's latest comedy romp.

Auckland Arts Festival 2017 promises spectacle.

Sam Brooks, Geordie Holibar and Tim Earl will spend their early summer taking one of Brook's award-winning plays on an Auckland and North Island tour.

The University of Auckland's Maidment Theatre is to close for good, as the price-tag to fix it soared to more than $16 million.

My girlfriend and I went to New York over Christmas and, boy oh boy, it's a magical place that time of year.

Don Juan is an energetic, irrepressibly gleeful and good-natured evening out.

You'd think actor Mick Innes would be more cautious about staging another one-man show at the Basement Theatre; last time he was there, he came close to dying on stage.

On the eve of its Auckland show, Footnote dancers talk about the impact of costumes.

Playing video games inspired dancer Joshua (Fale) Faleatua.

Artists and entertainers may think their work is a labour of love, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be paid a fair wage for it

Auckland Shakespeare Company's Lucrece confronts the way rape debases our humanity.