The Thrilling Adventure Hour takes a little longer than that. It's actually about 80 to 85 minutes on stage, says Ben Blacker, laughing.

The publicity photos shock. George Henare, an avuncular gentleman with a twinkle in his eye, is bound, gagged and has a gun to his head held by a determined but nevertheless vulnerable-looking and slightly built Tatiana Hotere.

Learning lines, frumpy clothes, and getting naked … Kiwi fashion queen Denise L’Estrange-Corbet talks to Suzanne McFadden about her very revealing stage debut.

Emily Perkins' A Doll's House is to Henrik Ibsen's original what Clueless is to Jane Austen's Emma: it's a wonderfully assured adaptation, writes Janet McAllister.

Laurel Devenie is tackling her biggest acting challenge yet - working with 1000 toy pandas.

A raincoat isn't what you'd normally wear to a theatre show - but if you've got front row tickets at the Civic tonight, get set for the wet.

With Singin' in the Rain splashing down in Auckland next week, Lydia Jenkin talks to the show's leading man.

The opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.

William Shakespeare's famous Globe theatre is heading to Auckland next year, as the world marks 400 years since the playwright's death.

A claustrophobic city slice of intriguing, aggressive and hyper-articulate characters whose vulnerability (and self-obsession) makes them rough each other up.

The fact that Shakespeare wrote a play called Love's Labours Won is beyond dispute, though no copy has been found.

This simple, measured, gentle charmer can be found inside a soft white cube inside the black box studio of Q Loft.

Two cooks, high drama and hypnotic rhythms - yet this illustrated drumming show from South India is emphatically not some relaxed mix of My Kitchen Rules and Stomp!.

Silo Theatre brings flair to the stage adaptation of a delightful modern fable by Dutch writer Guus Kuijer.

Chicago-based hip-hop crew the Q Brothers bring plenty of verve to their remix of Shakespeare's cross-cultural tragedy Othello.

Remix a modern take on classic play about jealousy and racism.

The It company from New York City boasts 14 of the best dancers that the money of its founder and funder Wal-Mart heiress, Nancy Laurie, can buy and what those 14 fabulously honed and interestingly diverse beings can do is certainly superb.