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Watching a filmed recording of a Broadway show is actually piracy - and just really bad manners.

Arts-lovers, take your marks… The annual Auckland Arts Festival (AAF) kicks off tomorrow, Wednesday 8 March.

Auckland Theatre Company's third show in the brand-new ASB Waterfront Theatre is Sir Peter Shaffer's awarding winning, psychological-thriller, Amadeus, presented by ASB.

I found Kennar's work and the performance so engaging that time became timeless as I feasted on the enthralling piece that unfolded before me.

This musical show ticks all the boxes.

After taking Broadway and the West End by storm, the celebrated theatrical adaptation of Mark Haddon's award-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is heading to The Court Theatre's stage.

ARTIMUS is a modern dance theatre work from some of New Zealand's top Commercial dancers.

Mea Tau.

Circa Theatre is proud to curate and host WTF! Women's Theatre Festival, celebrating women's voices and following on from 2016's hugely successful Women in Theatre Hui.

A festival of films devoted to the bicycle and all who ride is gearing up to be the torque of Wellington from 28 March to 8 April 2017.

In 2017, for the first time, Auckland Arts Festival is producing Whanui - five large-scale, community-based projects that will widen the Festival's embrace from Otara to Northcote, Henderson to Glenn Innes and Flat Bush.

This multi-disciplinary work features in the visual art programme of the upcoming Auckland Arts Festival and will be installed at The Basement Theatre.

Pop-up Globe® is a multi-award winning New Zealand company that produces spectacular Jacobean theatre, particularly the works of Shakespeare, in the world's first full scale temporary working replica of the second Globe.

Jean Batten's 1936 flight from England to New Zealand in a single engine plane made of wood and fabric navigating with just a compass and a watch is one of the extraordinary feats of the last century.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA opens next Wednesday 8th February at Mona Vale Gardens, Christchurch.

The Rebel Alliance is returning to Wellington with their award winning production Manifesto 2083 as part of the Wellington Fringe Festival.

The Court Theatre is ready to take the kids of Christchurch on an exciting adventure this summer in Jack and the Beanstalk.

Christchurch audiences are about to be treated to the world premiere season of the new comic-thriller, Ropable at The Court Theatre.

It's been a year of firsts for rock icon, Jimmy Barnes.

Every Summer Top Dog Theatre hosts a season of Summer Shakespeare at Mona Vale.

On December 10 The Court Theatre celebrates five years since opening The Shed, its temporary theatre in Addington, with one of its busiest weekends of the year.

After a string of triumphant 2015 dates across North America, BEN HARPER and the Innocent Criminals will embark on a headline tour of Australia and New Zealand early next year, marking their first national headline tour in more than eight years.

New Zealand's most loved culinary festival, Taste of Auckland in partnership with Electrolux is back for 2016! Unfolding across 17-20 November, at Western Springs, Auckland.

Traditional Panto with humour for all the family! Bookings are open for the fabulous pantomime Red Riding Hood & the Three Pigs, playing from 22 November to 3 December.

Avenue Q is a multi-faceted, clever piece of theatre that requires complex and expertly delivered theatre techniques that would challenge the most knowledgeable and experienced theatre practitioners.