He's best known for his roles on television as a funny guy, but Tainui Tukiwaho is serious about a long-term career in arts management.

The latest instalment of the multi-million-dollar Harry Potter franchise launches in London in July, not a film but a stage show.

Audience member pulled up on stage at Cirque du Soleil's Quidam show describes ordeal as "tasteless and very awkward".

Transgender actress Lexie Matheson appears in an all-women version of Shakespeare's Henry V at Auckland's Pop Up Globe Theatre this month.

An Italian actor died after a scene in an experimental play by hanging himself.

Chris Crowe takes Dionne Christian behind the scenes of theatre production.

Chris Crowe takes Dionne Christian behind the scenes of theatre production.

Chris Parker achieves a fine balance between poignancy and humour in his autobiographical tale about a boy's passion for dance and his journey of self-discovery.

For performer Ian Michael, the story of Australia's Stolen Generations - Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their families - is personal.

Festival-goers will be treated to the work of a pioneer of modern movement, writes Bernadette Rae.

Kiwis are culture vultures and we love the Bard, so the world's first full-scale working replica of the second Globe Theatre might stay open for longer than initially planned.

Comic mix of stage and home movies sad at heart, writes Dionne Christian.

For many authors, the prospect of having their books adapted for the stage or screen can be daunting.

Shakespeare will be celebrated in events around the globe in 2016, 400 years since his death, writes Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron.

The Pumphouse celebrates 20 years of presenting Shakespeare with an ambitious double-header that traverses the extreme poles of the Bard's art.

After 20 years of running Shakespeare in the Park, there isn't a lot that surprises the event founders - and Shoreside Theatre stalwarts Carol and Allan Dumbleton.

J.K. Rowling has said she "loves" the fact that Hermione Granger will be played by a black actress in the highly anticipated new Harry Potter play.

Boutique theatre company's opening Kiwi musical Daffodils is to be made into a movie

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child has cast its lead actors.

The steaks were high, but Silo theatre's home-grown comedy Hudson and Halls Live! has turned out to be anything but a turkey.

This spectacular cirque cabaret, starring the stylish acrobats of The Dust Palace, imagines The Odyssey as Star Trek.

'Tis the season for The Basement to gift us its Christmas production.

Get your leotards, leg-warmers and sweatbands ready, because Flashdance is making a comeback, this time in stage musical form.

This production, like a couple of other traditional-style Auckland Theatre Company shows this year, falls rather flat - and it's not just the off-key singing.

Soaring, skillful, seductive, sensory, spectacle. There are many words to describe Le Noir, but just one to sum it up: sensational.

I lived in my head mostly. Being this transgendered person, I kept the shutters down so I wasn't terribly happy.