Auckland's new $36 million ASB Waterfront Theatre was declared open this morning.

Herald arts editor tells of theatre genesis.

Show is loosely-woven without any particular punchline, a look inside the mind of a curious character.

After more than a decade of planning, the new $36 million ASB Waterfront Theatre is officially opened on Thursday.

Tristram takes a walk through the brand new ASB Theatre in Auckland, due to open tomorrow. The stunning new purpose built building will bring new life to the Auckland arts scene.

Black Friars Theatre has been working for the past 10 years in South Auckland to're-story' conventional narratives.

The Basement Theatre's spring season is blossoming with funny and poignant new Kiwi plays.

Sweeney Todd, once described by its composer, Stephen Sondheim, as a movie for the stage, had a dream venue in The Civic.

New Orleans is a hot seething magical land of fried chicken, beignets (puff pastry and sugar) and Oyster Happy Hour.

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

If the title Venus in Fur sounds vaguely familiar you could be thinking of Velvet Underground circa 1967 or the 19th century erotic novel.

As the centenary commemorations of World War I loomed, theatre-maker Geoff Allen wanted to write a play about New Zealand's contribution

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