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Theatre preview: What Have You Done To Me?

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

Girls star becomes Peter Pan

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

Sexy circus heads to NZ

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.

Theatre review: Belleville, Herald Theatre

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

Classical review: The Medium, Opera Factory

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

Preview: The Sound of Music

Living travelled to Singapore to see The Sound of Music ahead of the show opening in Wellington and Auckland.

Janet McAllister: Let down by 'lazy stereotypes'

Theatre review: Earnest, Q Theatre

The party fun starts even before you enter the theatre for this Importance of Being Earnest, fabulously reimagined as an all-male dandy revel.

Shavaughn: Out of the blue

Good fortune, rather than good management, has seen Shavaughn Ruakere snare top TV roles. Now, on the eve of her theatre debut, she talks to Alan Perrott about image, her new health kick, and rubbing shoulderswith Dame Judi Dench.

Cumberbatch's Hamlet tickets in hot demand

Theatre preview: Hairspray, SkyCity Theatre

The ebullient Lavina Williams - one-third of the singing trio Ma-V-Elle, former Australian Idol contestant and musical theatre star - embarks on another entertaining tale.

Hairspray: Strap on those heels and high hair

Many will remember Russell Dixon as TV3’s affable, clean-cut weather presenter from the mid-2000s who dabbled in theatre.

Climb ev'ry mountain

Writer chooses drama over drink

After her parents acrimoniously divorced, scriptwriter Jess Sayer thought there were two ways of coping.

Digital Winds blow fierce but too long

With a cast of 25, a live band, dancers and video projections, The Tautai of Digital Winds presents a truly epic piece of community-based theatre.

Theatre review: An Unseasonable Fall of Snow, The Basement

The twist in Gary Henderson's short 1998 mystery is just the right level of difficult: it's solvable but hard enough that you'll feel pleased you got it, with the help of some cleverly-spaced clues.