In reimagining Jesus and the Apostles as a rock band, director Oliver Driver delivers a hot mess; it's sometimes excellent, writes Janet McAllister.

Ten years ago, three artists who met through the Bournemouth music scene piled into a small car and embarked on a micro-tour of London, Newcastle and Edinburgh showcasing their blend of paper....

A one-woman show toured under the auspices of the British Council testifies to live theatre's unrivalled ability to enliven storytelling with a palpable sense of a real human presence.

Acclaimed writer Victor Rodger is the illegitimate son of a teenage mum and his play Sons, which he wrote 20 years ago, is being performed again in Mangere this week.

This cross-cultural family soap opera is a revival of celebrated playwright Victor Rodger's 1995 play about respect and broken promises, written when he was in his mid-twenties.

There is no complacent sitting back comfortably to watch Alexa Wilson's explosive and challenging choreography The Status of Being, made on the company's very new quintet of five impressive young dancers.

It was difficult not to be swept away by Lucia di Lammermoor, a joint production by the Auckland Chamber Orchestra and Auckland Opera Studio.

In the FRESH showcase at Tempo Dance Festival 2014, the communication of ideas through the dancing body is still the primary focus of this new generation of dance artists, but the ways in which that body dances are divergent.

Lesley Garrett, the English soprano, is in town for The Sound of Music in which she is playing the Mother Abbess, and she was over the moon to be here.

Right now The Sound of Music seems even more in tune with the times than when it premiered in 1959 and anticipated all the major themes of the 60s.

Shirley MacLaine has been a star for nearly 60 years. She's been an author for nearly 45.

Michael Hurst, ONZM — actor, director, stage and screen veteran — is starring in Trees Beneath the Lake at Auckland’s Maidment Theatre.

A team of Kiwi musicians, actors and artists are joining forces with marginalised Auckland teenagers to bring their street stories to the stage.

Four months ago, the New Zealand String Quartet enthralled a town hall audience playing Mozart and Brahms quintets with Canadian clarinetist James Campbell.

The fraudulent world of high finance has furnished plenty of high-stakes drama in recent years.

Acting duo open performance to people from other industries to try to find a new perspective on their work.

Allison Williams looks ready to fly in her newly-released first photo as Peter Pan.

A new circus with characters including the 'Half Naked Asian Dude Wearing Pigtails from Japan' will begin touring New Zealand for the first time later this year.

A knock at the door sounds like hammering with an anvil in this Silo Theatre production, but clever, compelling Belleville is really only playing dress-up as a thriller.

The music theatre of Gian Carlo Menotti fits in well with the strengths of Auckland's Opera Factory, as its new production of The Medium revealed.