New Zealand software company Vista Entertainment Solutions looks set to join the rush of local technology businesses lining up to list on the sharemarket.

The cast and crew of Annie are all smiles when we meet them - and, in turn, we are all bowled over by how good the Kiwi girls playing Annie and her fellow orphans are.

Claire McCall talks to an Auckland teen about her starring role as orphan Annie.

This highly entertaining, funny dramedy more than lives up to its actual title which is deemed too rude to print in full: this "mofo" show delivers fruity words with relish.

There is absolutely no doubt that the artists of American dance theatre company Pilobulus are supreme masters of the ancient art of shadow play.

Actor George Henare will be the patron of one of Auckland's newest professional theatre companies, Newmarket Stage Company.

Mangere's Nick Afoa is wowing Sydney audiences with his Simba the Lion King.

Danielle Wright visits the National Youth Theatre Company at rehearsal.

In what is becoming a specialty for Auckland Theatre Company, Colin McColl has discovered another superb piece of contemporary theatre.

Dionne Christian previews May's big fat helping of music for Auckland's children.

I'll say this for the guy in the fourth row at the performance of Socrates Now in the Selwyn College Theatre on Monday morning: he's a young man who knows his own mind.

Lisa Chappell's self-penned, one-woman show is a macabre comedy that takes us a million miles away from the wholesome, girl-next-door persona of McLeod's Daughter.

They are the type of reviews actors pray for: "Exceptional and unmissable" from blogger Suzy Go See and, from the Sydney Morning Herald.

Confirmation that the Rolling Stones are rescheduling their concert in Auckland is not just good news for fans. It is good news for the local economy. Here's how.