When most successful actors thank their mums for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.

Dressing actors for Auckland Theatre Company's period piece Mary Stuart doesn't mean slavish adherence to Tudor fashion.

As people relaxed at Easter weekend, Michael Sheen endured incarceration in a police cell, slept rough up a mountain and was crucified, then resurrected in front of hundreds of onlookers.

The Silo Theatre company has spent ten years carving out a niche as one of Auckland's most dynamic artistic collectives. Luke Oram looks behind the curtain at the boutique crew's success.

When it comes to celebrating the music of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, who better to sing his praises - and a number of his fabulous songs - than New Zealander Delia Hannah whose star has soared thanks to his shows?

Kerri Jackson visits Wellywood and finds a film star making a glamorous comeback.

Modern parable on dangers of technology explores the father-son dynamic, writes Stephen Jewell.

New Zealand Film Festival offshoot, the World Cinema Showcase, returns. TimeOut critic Peter Calder casts an eye over the programme and talks to the writer of one of the French highlights, Of Gods and Men.

Link between the plot and Tim Finn's songs is tenuous, but it's a striking piece of theatre.

Poor Boy, the play inspired and soundtracked by Tim Finn's songs, has arrived in Auckland after seasons in Melbourne and Sydney. Dionne Christian goes behind the scenes.

Conor Lovett is a virtuoso actor and widely acclaimed as the best living interpreter of Samuel Becket's work.

Some marvellous images are being created at the Basement this Fringe, writes Janet McAllister

Seven days in the life of the Kiwi actress.

At first, this late-night one-man show from Australia looks like just a vehicle for a Mr Bean impersonator in younger, more alternative clothing.

If you are looking for a show that is funny and uplifting, it is unlikely that you would settle on something that has interminable and suicide in its title.