It's been described as looking like a glass jewel box and it's about to become a jewel in the crown of the Auckland arts scene: it's

Two of NZ theatre's fiercest female voices, Hayley Sproull and Jo Randerson, to be heard in Auckland.

Joel Granger is experiencing the kind of success young perfomers hope for, but are warned is unlikely to happen.

Gruesome Playground Injuries is a slightly perplexing, but absorbing play.

Up the end of the dark hall, and behind the office door on the right, one generation of New Zealand screen acting is butting heads with another.

Tickets go on sale on Friday for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and West Side Story, two of the world's most popular musicals.

Boys Will Be Boys delivers a searing indictment of how workplace culture can enable and support sexual violence.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is one of our most successful opera singers; now he's coming home to play the lead in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The University of Waikato, home to the Conservatorium of Music, has added a unique new course - the only one of its kind in the country training New Zealand opera stars of the future.

Rehearsals are under way at Auckland Theatre Company for the female sidekicks of aspiring ballet dancer Billy Elliot.

As I child, I remember having terrible stage fright. I was terrified of drama class and anything that required me to speak in front

A few words with Elizabeth Whiting, lawyer-turned-costume designer.

History is written large at five year old Q Theatre.

This surprising show - by new writer/director Ash Jones - is bonkers in the most wonderful way.

James Wilson, chief executive of Q, talks about signatures stars have left at the theatre backstage.

Geoff Allen's snippets-of-life drama is prettily presented by director Amanda Rees and holds attention with some lovely moving moments

When the internationally-renowned Cirque du Soleil blows into town, there's a group of local circus performers they're keen to see. Based

Twelve weeks, two season extensions, 128 mostly sold-out performances attended by 100,000 (including 20,000 school students) and 10

There are some similarities in these two provocative tales of sexual tension by talented young New Zealand playwrights.

On a cold Edinburgh night, it's like a slice of a Kiwi summer has come to theatre as Todd Emerson launches into a raucous version of Th' Dudes' Bliss.

A few words with Shona McCullagh.

They say there's a first-time for everything; for Oliver Page and Benjamin Henson that time is now. Already established in their

Melodrama falls a little flat on debut but theatre company shows potential.

COMMENT: I've loved the Harry Potter series and J.K. Rowling for over 10 years, but now, for the first time, I feel disappointed with her - and it hurts.

COMMENT: Dynamotion's fifth comedy-dance show, Mia Blonde in Ice Dagger is a winner.

By allowing the audience to decide how much they will pay for the show, Free Happiness poses a challenge that doubles as an attractive, if somewhat risky, marketing ploy.

Harry Potter has cast his last spell, his creator JK Rowling said at the gala opening of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London's West End.

COMMENT: If you're looking to read about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child without any spoilers, read this instead.

In an office crammed with books and stage memorabilia, theatre-maker and teacher Pedro Ilgenfritz finds space for a battered brown

Comedy dance goes boogie, writes Dionne Christian.