Cirque du Soleil is bringing a version of its Michael Jackson show to NZ; at another there's a Kiwi at the helm, finds Leena Tailor.

Oliver Driver, Rima Te Wiata and a dozen other actors aren't allowed to read this review.

What an inspired idea, devising a staging of The Odyssey with teenagers and children.

Everything from slice-of-life realism through to surrealistic flights of fancy are on display in the second week of the Short+Sweet Festival.

This excellent production is a slug of rich, complex whisky on a dark and stormy night.

My happy place is around the dining table. My parents have a brilliant one - it's kauri and was made by my great-great grandfather in the 1880s and we have had it for as long as I can remember. It was always the centre of our family interactions.

Misfits, murderers, heroes and lovers all troop across the Herald Theatre stage this week in 11 short plays ranging from farce to melodrama.

As part of the BIG little City launch of 453 reasons to love your city via Instagram, Online Entertainment Editor Hugh Sundae shares some of his favourite Auckland venues.

Your latest play Intimacies is about how technology is warping our lives and relationships - how is it affecting you?

Samoan Language Week runs until Samoan Independence Day on June 1, so the season of this bilingual play set about Mau - the non-violent Samoan independence movement - is timed very nicely.

It is never difficult to find contemporary events that point to the relevance of Titus Andronicus, but Shakespeare's reflections on the extremes of human cruelty are given particular poignancy by the recent murder of a young soldier on a London str

Australian actress Maggie Kirkpatrick is looking forward to showing off some of her wicked side to Kiwi audiences.

If you know actress Anna Jullienne only as Shortland Street’s lesbian nurse, Maia, she’s working hard to change that, she tells Greg Dixon.

The director of Ashburton's production of Miss Saigon was seriously injuries when he fell from the stage during a rehearsal days before out from the first show.

Danielle Wright finds Wellington alive with art events, food and popular culture this winter.

Patua means "to hit, kill, subdue, ill-treat", and writer-director Renae Maihi bravely takes on the subject of child abuse in the 75 nicely paced minutes of this, her second play.