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Style over substance
Director Colin McColl moves Oscar Wilde's satire to contemporary times.

<i>Preview:</i> MetOpera's Carmen at Bridgeway Cinema
New Zealanders are guaranteed a special buzz at the latest MetOpera presentation, opening next week.

NZ Arts Festival: Powhiri sets festival in motion
A 6am powhiri for two hundred international artists kicked off the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival on Wellington's waterfront this morning.

NZ Arts Festival - Celebrating Happenstance
Former festival junkie Mark Amery re-emerges as a critic and commentator for the NZ International Arts Festival opening in Wellington today.

The players
It's called Fresh Produce but it has nothing to do with farmers' markets or the current vogue for home-grown vegetables.

Jude Law, Weisz scoop theatre awards
Jude Law and Rachel Weisz have scooped the acting honours at this year's Whatsonstage.com theatre awards, voted for by the public.

<i>Preview:</i> Nation at Rialto Newmarket
Terry Pratchett's alternate world as seen in the latest National Theatre film offering has a Kiwi tang.

Alert: puppet sex
There's a new musical coming to town and it sounds like it's Sesame Street crossed with Peter Jackson's sordid black comedy Meet the Feebles.

<i>Review:</i> The Lover at Basement Theatre
Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: "Is your lover coming today?"

La bonne vie in the South Island
Just imagine. If the French had colonised the South Island, Christchurch would be chic.

Blessed with rich variety and verve
The Auckland theatre scene has been busier than ever over the past year, but does quantity mean quality?

The boy who never grows old
Master choreographer Russell Kerr's Peter Pan shows no signs of ageing.