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![Theatre review: Ithaca](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Ithaca
This spectacular cirque cabaret, starring the stylish acrobats of The Dust Palace, imagines The Odyssey as Star Trek.
![Theatre: Jesus Christ Part II](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre: Jesus Christ Part II
'Tis the season for The Basement to gift us its Christmas production.
![Flashdance musical heading to NZ](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Flashdance musical heading to NZ
Get your leotards, leg-warmers and sweatbands ready, because Flashdance is making a comeback, this time in stage musical form.
![Pep missing in cheeky classic](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Pep missing in cheeky classic
This production, like a couple of other traditional-style Auckland Theatre Company shows this year, falls rather flat - and it's not just the off-key singing.
![Captivating circus Le Noir a crowdpleaser](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Captivating circus Le Noir a crowdpleaser
Soaring, skillful, seductive, sensory, spectacle. There are many words to describe Le Noir, but just one to sum it up: sensational.
![Rocky Horror creator: 'Why I went mad'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Rocky Horror creator: 'Why I went mad'
I lived in my head mostly. Being this transgendered person, I kept the shutters down so I wasn't terribly happy.
![Theatre review: My Own Darling](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: My Own Darling
Performance poet Grace Taylor has created a boldly experimental fusion of theatre and verse that offers a fresh perspective on the sprawling contrasts of Auckland City.
![Stage master](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Stage master
One of our finest acting and directing talents turns his attention to the classic musical Guys and Dolls. By Dionne Christian
![Heartbreaking and uplifting portrayal of slumdog dwellers shines](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Heartbreaking and uplifting portrayal of slumdog dwellers shines
The exuberant vitality of community theatre is abundantly demonstrated as Prayas Theatre launch a wildly ambitious production that condenses the vast sweep of Rohinton Mistry's much-loved novel into....
![All the danger of the circus](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
All the danger of the circus
The wheel of death rolls out for the latest spectacular, writes Dionne Christian.
![How Hello Kitty rules the world](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
How Hello Kitty rules the world
As the Japanese logo is brought to life for a global touring show, Julia Llewellyn Smith discovers the amazingly far-ranging appeal of the squeaky clean "cat".
![Shakespeare's Globe Theatre coming to Auckland](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre coming to Auckland
A full-scale temporary replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is being built in downtown Auckland.
![Theatre review: Manifesto 2083, The Basement](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Manifesto 2083, The Basement
At the start of this intellectually confronting and complex one-man play, Olaf Hojgaard (Edwin Wright) tells us he was watching the 2011 Tour de France telecast when he first heard about Anders Behring Breivik's politically-motivated murder.
![Manifesto 2083: Inspired by a killer](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Manifesto 2083: Inspired by a killer
The play Manifesto 2083 examines the narcissistic world of a Norwegian mass killer.
![St James Theatre back in limelight](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
St James Theatre back in limelight
A new documentary about the initial restoration of Auckland's historic St James Theatre will premiere next month.
![Play filled with unexpected twists](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Play filled with unexpected twists
Playwright Aroha Awarau has created a sensitive and engaging drama out of something that is almost unimaginably tragic - the random death of a young man cut down in his prime as an innocent bystander at a police shooting.
![Theatre review: Tosca, Aotea Centre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Tosca, Aotea Centre
New Zealand Opera's Tosca is more than extraordinarily gripping theatre, marking the huge advances made since the company last presented the opera in 2003.
![80s classic 'dated and stale'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
80s classic 'dated and stale'
The 1980s musical smash Cats returned to Auckland last night. But it hasn't aged gracefully, writes Tess Nichol.
![Sass and tease on show at festival](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Sass and tease on show at festival
From high-school teacher to a professional in the art of burlesque dancing - Natalie Hugill, left, has done it all.
![Theatre review: All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever
Remarkable New Zealand playwright Eli Kent pulls off a difficult conceit: a show within a show, directed by an autocratic talking lightbulb.
![Moving, inventive take on mass shootings](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Moving, inventive take on mass shootings
In a thoughtful response to the horror of mass shootings, acclaimed Scottish playwright David Greig experiments with theatrical forms as he attempts to extract meaning from the carefully calculated....