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Your ultimate guide to Auckland’s must-see events this weekend
There are plenty of activities to keep you and the family/whānau busy.

An aerial spectacular that will take your breath away
Belle: A Performance of Air transports you to a different world

The biggest laughs: What to expect from NZ International Comedy Festival 2025
More than 600 performances from over 150 acts will take place in Auckland and Wellington.

‘Tribute to my mother’: TikTok star’s poignant new play at Basement
Shakes' TikTok has 1.8 million followers and 190 million likes for his skits.

‘Time to move on’: Kiwi writer’s moving play tackles silence around Sri Lanka’s past
An old mixtape rewinds history as a family is torn apart by civil war.

A Mixtape for Maladies
Seventeen songs on an old mixtape tell the story in Ahilan Karunaharan's moving play . Video / Auckland Theatre company

From £5 budget to the Civic stage: Six co-creator and cast on hit musical’s epic journey
The pop spectacle about the six wives of Henry VIII is turning heads in Auckland.

Live at the St James: Auckland Council approves funding for iconic venue
Downtown Auckland's St James Theatre has finally been given a new lease of life.

‘My life as a CODA’: What it’s like growing up as the family’s only hearing person
Jodee Mundy's new solo show Personal bridges the world of sound and the world of silence.

She was 26, he was 73: Hollywood legend Gene Kelly’s widow on their unlikely love story
Patricia Kelly is heading to the Auckland Arts Festival with her intimate stage show.

Final curtain call for much-loved theatre stalwart killed in Kaipara crash
Michael Craig Collins (Mike) died in a single-vehicle crash at Kaipara this month.

‘Empowering and therapeutic’: Award-winning musical set for Hastings
'Therapy: The Musical' will play in Hastings on March 5 and 6.

This Paris theatre gave free tickets to hundreds of migrants. Now they won’t leave
Parisian cultural centre is on verge of bankruptcy due to occupation.

My Secret Auckland: Singer Calla shares her favourite spots in the city
Every week, we ask a well-known Aucklander for their favourite spots in the city.

‘Quite unbelievable’: Dargaville Little Theatre to take global stage in Monaco
The cast of Out of Mind will travel to Monaco in August to represent Theatre New Zealand.

Actor Laura Hill on playing an 'abomination of nature' and the cost for freedom
The former Shorty star on motherhood, marriage, and women who forge their own path.

Making the show tick over - 57 years behind the scenes honoured
A star of theatre is acknowledged in the New Year 2025 Honours.

An audience with the queen: Rocky Horror’s Richard O’Brien on the monster behind his new show
'I might get weepy from time to time, darling. Forgive me.'

On in Tairāwhiti this weekend; Latin party, monthly market and photo exhibition
On in Tairāwhiti this weekend; Latin party, monthly market and photo exhibition

Theatre legend Tim Bray on cancer, chemo and the man who's holding him together
'Within myself, I still completely feel me.'

Tim Bray: The Sense of an Ending
A legend of children's theatre on cancer, chemo and keeping the magic alive. Video / Michael Craig