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Tamati to join Seven Sharp?
Is Tamati Coffey about to join Seven Sharp as a full-time host? Souces say yes.

Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson world tour
Check out photos from Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson Immortal world tour show.

Theatre review: Midsummer, The Loft
On-stage chemistry and audience rapport keep the laughs coming during a weekend of adventures.

Theatre review: NZ Ballet gets back to raw essentials
The best thing about the Royal New Zealand Ballet's biennial travelling show is getting up close and personal with performances in smaller venues.

Stage preview: Auckland Theatre Company's Chicago
Does he like peeling onions? Michael Hurst looks bemused by the question - he is eating a home-made salad of piquant appearance - so he pauses, fork in mid-air, and tilts his head.

Theatre review: Wicked fun and frivolity fit for family
The iconic American fairytale with its catalogue of strange symbols and puzzling metaphors proves to be fertile ground for a musical extravaganza.

Theatre review: Gwen in Purgatory, Tapac
This 2010 Australian comedy-drama continues the year's mini-trend of realist, real-time shows, writes Janet McAllister.

Theatre review: Kiss the Fish, Q Theatre
The magic of Indian Ink returns after a period of international touring with a new work that has the shrewdness of fable combined with the sweetness of a pop song.

Theatre preview: Gwen in Purgatory, Tapac
Katherine McRae finally gets to work with her mother Elizabeth on stage - and it's in a role well suited to both.

Theatre review: Lord of the Flies
William Golding's 1954 masterpiece is lodged within the psyche of generations who encountered it as a favoured school text.

Australia: My memorable date with great ape
Meeting great apes is a dream realised, writes Colin Mathura-Jeffree.

Class warfare - in the kitchen
With its Swedish mix of sex, class and mind games, August Strindberg's naturalist (almost real-time) drama Miss Julie has sticking power.

One queen show brings wonderfully quotable Crisp to life
The poetic cynic Quentin Crisp was wonderfully quotable - a latter-day Oscar Wilde, made of more stoic, less squashable stuff.

Comedy for kids
Live television, comedy and doing good come together next Friday night on TV3.