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.

One of Auckland's busiest theatres is closed indefinitely because it has been deemed an earthquake risk.

The Massive Company Trust says cash will help young artists.

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

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.

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.

Performance poet Grace Taylor has created a boldly experimental fusion of theatre and verse that offers a fresh perspective on the sprawling contrasts of Auckland City.

One of our finest acting and directing talents turns his attention to the classic musical Guys and Dolls. By Dionne Christian

The exuberant vitality of community theatre is abundantly demonstrated as Prayas Theatre launch a wildly ambitious production that condenses the vast sweep of Rohinton Mistry's much-loved novel into....

The wheel of death rolls out for the latest spectacular, writes Dionne Christian.

As the Japanese logo is brought to life for a global touring show, Julia Llewellyn Smith discovers the amazingly far-ranging appeal of the squeaky clean "cat".

A full-scale temporary replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is being built in downtown Auckland.

What Olaf Hojgaard finds - and what he becomes - is wide open to interpretation: are all the views misleading or odious or only some?

At the start of this intellectually confronting and complex one-man play, Olaf Hojgaard (Edwin Wright) tells us he was watching the 2011 Tour de France telecast when he first heard about Anders Behring Breivik's politically-motivated murder.