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Australia: It's show time in Oz
Hop across the ditch and catch some world-class theatre.

Michele Hewitson interview: Mark Hadlow
What an interesting face actor Mark Hadlow has. It is as though somebody had made a cartoon character by animating one of those giant balls made from rubber bands.

Theatre review: Seed, The Basement
Playwright Elizabeth Easther won the 2014 Adam Play Award with this sophisticated, witty and very contemporary meditation on the timeless processes of procreation.

Theatre review: Once on Chunuk Bair, Maidment Theatre
In this superb Auckland Theatre Company production of the Gallipoli play, twelve angry men fill the stage with presence and charisma, increasing the under-fire excitement of a battlefield tragedy.

Wiggles colour up young patients' day
When The Wiggles visited the Starship hospital, 4-year-old Jaxon Seilala was one of the few children treated to a special high-five.

Cinema IT provider joins queue looking to list
New Zealand software company Vista Entertainment Solutions looks set to join the rush of local technology businesses lining up to list on the sharemarket.

Theatre preview: Annie, The Civic
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.

Fertility: Maybe baby (+audio)
On the eve of the opening of her award-winning play on reproduction, Elisabeth Easther looks at the business of fertility and asks why making babies can be so simple for some and so complex, expensive and heartbreaking.

Theatre Review: The Mother... with the Hat, The Basement
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.

Theatre review: Shadowland, The Civic
There is absolutely no doubt that the artists of American dance theatre company Pilobulus are supreme masters of the ancient art of shadow play.

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

Sydney: Hear that Kiwi roar
Mangere's Nick Afoa is wowing Sydney audiences with his Simba the Lion King.

National Youth Theatre Company: Wiz kids
Danielle Wright visits the National Youth Theatre Company at rehearsal.

Harris witness describes pub incident
An Australian woman says she stopped eating and became a 'shell' of her former self after Rolf Harris assaulted her at a London pub.

12 Questions: Sarah Peirse
It was a rowdy household of seven, musical, bookish, articulate, funny. In Wellington. My father was an economist and political scientist.