Students from Manukau Institute of Technology will put a South Auckland spin on the much-loved musical West Side Story.

The world's first Pacific musical is inspired by our nation's immigrants who each made sacrifices for a chance in New Zealand.

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

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

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

Ten short plays by emerging actors take a conservative look at human relationships.

Pink Floyd's The Wall will be playing at Vector Arena this week, brought to life by former bassist-singer Roger Waters.

Having toured successfully and extensively through New Zealand, Australia and Asia, theatre company Indian Ink is the first from this country to be signed by American artists' representative David Lieberman.

A "tuakana" is a mentor (literally "older sibling") to a "teina", and this $20 double bill includes Strong Hands, a contemporary drama by Michael Rewiri-Thorsen and Te Awarua, a tragicomic melange of history and myth by tuakana Albert Belz.

Silo Theatre's ambitious season opening is an all-too-rare opportunity to see the work of an African-American playwright on the Auckland stage.

Triple bills are the best - and another innovation of choreographer Diaghilev and composer Stravinsky, in the Ballet Russes.