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Alert: puppet sex

There's a new musical coming to town and it sounds like it's <i>Sesame Street</i> crossed with Peter Jackson's sordid black comedy <i>Meet the Feebles</i>.

<i>Review:</i> The Lover at Basement Theatre

Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: "Is your lover coming today?"

<i>Preview:</i> Le Sud at the Maidment Theatre

<i>Michele Hewitson Interview:</i> George Henare

A cute little heart breaker

Touching operatic allegory parallels lives of man and beast.

<i>Review:</i> Short+Sweet at Herald Theatre

La bonne vie in the South Island

Just imagine. If the French had colonised the South Island, Christchurch would be chic.

<i>New Year Honours:</i> Restlessness in opera led to busy life as actor

Christmas cheer with a difference

What's On This Week

Rhys Darby is everywhere - from feature films, to the radio waves, to big budget commercials, to TV shows in Rwanda.

Producers seek Mary Poppins

Don't leave town till you've seen the world

Theatre fans are in for a treat.

<i>Review</i>: Flintlock Musket at Aotea Centre

Silo gets off the white sofa and into the dirt

Jennifer Ward-Lealand plays a "beautiful monster" addicted to booze, pills and her son.

Driver makes most of unique double act to sell arts to PM

Playwright gives voice to hidden histories

Musket wars are the setting for a drama of race and power.