Entertainment

Backstage Pass is a new initiative which allows high school students to observe theatre professionals at work, remotely from their classroom before viewing the actual show.

Three by Ekman, a programme of animated and witty contemporary dance works by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company intrigued and entertained an appreciative audience.

Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan’s common love of mask, determination and creativity has seen their Indian Ink theatre company thrive for 20 years. Lewis talks to Rebecca Fox about celebrating the milestone with a national tour of "The Pickle King''.

An unpredicted hit musical won six Tonys at the awards show, alongside a long list of other stage shows, scripts and actors.

Dunedin-based singer Jason Henderson is the first New Zealander to be accepted to attend the St Louis Cabaret Conference.

Never the Sinner is a play that looks into the 1920s Chicago killing of a 14-year-old boy by two young men.Dunedin director Lewis Ablett-Kerr says there's a lot more to it than first appears.

TAKE a child to see Mary Poppins — that’s the advice of the show’s producer and director, Douglas Kamo. It was after taking his then 4-year-old daughter to see the extravagant production in Auckland a few years ago that the veteran Dunedin producer knew he wanted to put the show on in Dunedin.