Daring drama brings curtain down on Maori playwright's festival, hopefully not for last time

For once, a play's tagline is accurate: this drama-on-ice is pitched as "a woman, a man and a penguin" - and they're not kidding.

Go Girls' mum Bronwyn Bradley tackles a killer role in the hit musical Assassins, about the people who set their sights on the US presidents. By Michelle Coursey.

Simon Prast is a man on a mission.

School holiday theatre shows are all over town, writes Dionne Christian.

Two favourites and one new work are on show in the Young and Hungry line-up, writes Dionne Christian.

This one-man show engages the audience with an intimate conversational tone.

A homage to the Maori showbands of the 1960s, the Titanics have all the harmonies, musicality, glamour and humour of their heroes.

A Narnia extra gives audiences a peek into the world of a big-budget movie, says Dionne Christian.

The inaugural Maori Playwright's Festival has made an inspired choice by opening with a beautifully crafted revival of Briar Grace Smith's Purapurawhetu.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Douglas Hodge and Sir Alan Ayckbourn were among the winners at Sunday night's Tony Awards.

Shifting from his hard rock group to a play about the good old days of the Maori showband wasn't that much of a leap for Francis Kora.

The Maori New Year festival Matariki gets bigger every year. This year Taonga Whakaari: The Inaugural Maori Playwrights Festival has been added to the calendar of events in Auckland and Papakura.

Seizing the dark heart of the show Ross Girven captures the haunted nature of Sweeney Todd's psychosis.

Solo performer Gareth Williams takes us on a delightfully whimsical journey inside his head.

NBR New Zealand Opera's The Marriage of Figaro is as engrossing a night of theatre as one could wish for.