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.

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

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!.

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

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.

If you know anyone who thinks the arts festival isn't for blokes take them to see BLAM! - a 75-minute blast of testosterone-driven mayhem with amped-up, gaming style SFX and a heavy-metal soundtrack.

Playing the human star of the Walking With Dinosaurs live show is a dream role for Actor Andrew Blackman. He talks to Rachel Bache.

Attending one or both of these two new plays by the prolific Renee Liang would be a great way to start a Lantern Festival visit this weekend.

When actor-singer Robbie Tripe lost his long-running battle with depression last November, grieving family and friends wanted to ensure the death of the 41-year-old would not be in vain.

Pip Hall, the daughter of playwright Roger Hall, is a playwright herself, as well as a scriptwriter, actor and producer. Eight years ago she started synchronised swimming troupe Wet Hot Beauties.

Auckland Theatre Company's season-opening comedy this year is a black slapstick that crowds in some favourite old gags - you know before they begin how they're going to turn out, but the comfortable....

A day after seeing Thriller Live at Auckland's Civic Theatre, I'm still trying to work out what exactly it is.