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Diwali: Dancing away the darkness

Irish director has figured out Figaro

Out of the drawer and on to the stage

Janet McAllister: Canvas that can breathe and move on its own

Theatre Preview: School holiday theatre

Dance Review: Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One

Atamira Dance Company's's beautifully crafted new <i>Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One</i> draws on intricately connected layers of dance, video imagery and narrated text to share poignant ancestral stories from the Ngai Tuhoe lineage.

Veges diced, sliced in feast of humour

Te Urewera - from the beginning

Rebecca Kamm looks at a dramatic work paying homage to the eviction of the Tuhoe people.

Theatre Preview: Calendar Girls, Civic Theatre

Dancers show ingenuity and flair

Jeremy Wells' NZSO doco to screen this Sunday

The unlikely documentary that paired the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with famed satirist Jeremy Wells makes it to the small screen this Sunday.

Circus Incognitus: Clowning around

Scott Kara talks to Circus Incognitus star Jamie Adkins, who insists he's just an average guy.

Saltimbanco: Power of balance

Jacqueline Smith reports from behind the scenes of Cirque's Saltimbanco, which is swinging into New Zealand for the first time.

Raising the bar: Soap - The Show

Acrobatics on a bathtub? Dionne Christian talks to one of the stars of Soap - The Show, set to wash over New Zealand audiences.

Theatre Preview: School holiday theatre

Tracey Barnett: Repeat after me - being gay is okay

Stir caused by opera character's sexual identity shows society still mired in paranoia.