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Janet McAllister: Jester can ask questions that everyone is thinking

Wreaking revenge for a foul and most unnatural murder

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.

Long-running Wellington theatre to close doors

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.

Something Wicked

New show a grandiose spectacle, says Barney McDonald.

Janet McAllister: Pacific theatre picks up the pace

Erroll Shand's roles far from bland

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.

A gentleman who lived on his wits

Andrew Lloyd Webber hospitalised

British theatre mogul Andrew Lloyd Webber has been hospitalised in the UK, where he received his "12th general anaesthetic in 8 months".

Theatre review: Motel

Playwright April Phillips has created a finely crafted script that serves up four vignettes.

Language of marriage and murder

Theatre review: Sydney Bridge Upside Down

Taki Rua presents a boldly experimental piece of theatre that is as intriguing and idiosyncratic as the title.