Theatre

What can happen to the talented child of a famous parent when they struggle for recognition is explored in a play to be staged in Arrowtown.

Actress Cathy Downes brings The Case of Katherine Mansfield to life in Queenstown tomorrow, 90 years after the celebrated New Zealand author died in France.

A free-entry play set in the rubble of a main street building dominated the 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards last night.

One of the actors in musical theatre production Home need only think back to his own family history to channel the gamut of emotions felt by historical immigrants to New Zealand.

The 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards will enlist the power of 1000 minds.

The Middlemarch Singles Ball has all the ingredients for a great play, playwright Karen Trebilcock says.

People of Chinese descent are wanted by organisers of the Chinese Village Theatre, to be staged as part of the Arrowtown 150 celebrations this Labour Weekend.

Audiences will be required to suspend disbelief and engage their imaginations a little more than usual when the Remarkable Theatre stages its new series of plays without costumes, props, or even a stage.

A play first performed in the playwright's bedroom in front of 15 friends and relatives arrives in the Lakes district later this month as part of a national tour.

Wakatipu audiences will be kicking off their Sunday shoes this week as more than 65 Wakatipu High School pupils take to the stage, performing Footloose.