King Kong thunders into Melbourne this June. Rachel Grunwell meets the lead.

Cast members of the internationally acclaimed musical Wicked touched down in style in Auckland yesterday.

The festival offering from playwright Mitch Tawhi Thomas is a taut study of family dysfunction that finds plenty of life and laughter in the explosive quarrelling of estranged brothers.

Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.

With 11 days of fabulous events taking place during a celebration of all things fashionable, there's no excuse not to be involved in the Fashion in the Big Little City festival.

Actor Richard Briers, known for his enduring role in TV sitcom The Good Life, has died at the age of 79.

Does the Russian meteor make the backyard blue-cheese "asteroid" in A Night to Dismember easier to swallow?

If you wish Paul Henry were hosting Seven Sharp, and you like watching 7 Days and Two and a Half Men, then this might be the play for you.

Aucklanders' rates have given a $46 million boost to 10 rescue, safety, arts and cultural groups in the past four years and a further $14 million gift is proposed for the 2013-14 year.

50 Shades! The Musical, which provides a satirical twist on the best-selling novels, has already enjoyed a hit run at Chicago's Apollo Theatre.

British reviewers were scathing about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s "Girl Power" pop group the Spice Girls.

Most of the gags work and Dotcom is great, but MegaChristmas could have done with some editing, writes Paul Simei-Barton.

For Talking Heads, Julia Deans and Jennifer Ward-Lealand met on the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber stage where the production of Brel is set to talk about the words and music of Jacques Brel.

Mary Poppins producers have apologised to two women who were told they would have to buy more expensive tickets for their wheelchair-bound children.