The Basement Theatre's spring season is blossoming with funny and poignant new Kiwi plays.

Sweeney Todd, once described by its composer, Stephen Sondheim, as a movie for the stage, had a dream venue in The Civic.

New Orleans is a hot seething magical land of fried chicken, beignets (puff pastry and sugar) and Oyster Happy Hour.

Auckland's new Waterfront Theatre opens this week. Dionne Christian takes a look at what we can expect to see there in the coming year.

Joel Granger is experiencing the kind of success young perfomers hope for, but are warned is unlikely to happen.

Past principal performers from the West End's Les Miserables will sing at 21 New Zealand venues from Kerikeri to Invercargill.

It's been described as looking like a glass jewel box and it's about to become a jewel in the crown of the Auckland arts scene: it's

Two of NZ theatre's fiercest female voices, Hayley Sproull and Jo Randerson, to be heard in Auckland.

Boys Will Be Boys delivers a searing indictment of how workplace culture can enable and support sexual violence.

Tickets go on sale on Friday for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and West Side Story, two of the world's most popular musicals.

The diversity of theatre offered at the Basement is amply demonstrated in an intriguing work by a contemporary Lithuanian playwright.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is one of our most successful opera singers; now he's coming home to play the lead in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The University of Waikato, home to the Conservatorium of Music, has added a unique new course - the only one of its kind in the country training New Zealand opera stars of the future.

Actor Rob Mokaraka's one-person play, which tells the story of his depression-driven police standoff, to open in Auckland.

Rehearsals are under way at Auckland Theatre Company for the female sidekicks of aspiring ballet dancer Billy Elliot.

As I child, I remember having terrible stage fright. I was terrified of drama class and anything that required me to speak in front

A few words with Elizabeth Whiting, lawyer-turned-costume designer.

This surprising show - by new writer/director Ash Jones - is bonkers in the most wonderful way.

Geoff Allen's snippets-of-life drama is prettily presented by director Amanda Rees and holds attention with some lovely moving moments

When the internationally-renowned Cirque du Soleil blows into town, there's a group of local circus performers they're keen to see. Based

Twelve weeks, two season extensions, 128 mostly sold-out performances attended by 100,000 (including 20,000 school students) and 10

If the title Venus in Fur sounds vaguely familiar you could be thinking of Velvet Underground circa 1967 or the 19th century erotic novel.

As the centenary commemorations of World War I loomed, theatre-maker Geoff Allen wanted to write a play about New Zealand's contribution

There are some similarities in these two provocative tales of sexual tension by talented young New Zealand playwrights.

On a cold Edinburgh night, it's like a slice of a Kiwi summer has come to theatre as Todd Emerson launches into a raucous version of Th' Dudes' Bliss.

A few words with Shona McCullagh.

They say there's a first-time for everything; for Oliver Page and Benjamin Henson that time is now. Already established in their

Melodrama falls a little flat on debut but theatre company shows potential.

COMMENT: I've loved the Harry Potter series and J.K. Rowling for over 10 years, but now, for the first time, I feel disappointed with her - and it hurts.

COMMENT: Dynamotion's fifth comedy-dance show, Mia Blonde in Ice Dagger is a winner.