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Becoming an actor isn’t as easy as tapping your sparkly red slippers together, Wicked star Jay Laga’aia has told a group of aspiring performers. Laga’aia, who plays the Wizard of Oz in the upcoming Auckland season of Wicked, visited Wellington’s Whitireia Performance Centre on Tuesday to give advice to about 100 students who want to break into the theatre industry
Sharon Osbourne reportedly “snapped” at London’s Heathrow airport on Tuesday. The X Factor UK judge happily journeyed through the travel centre until she tried to pass through security
With a title like Journey to the Centre of the Tardis last night’s episode of Doctor Who promised to be epic. We’ve had some really great episodes this season, The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten and Hide, while Cold War left me feeling, well, cold.
REVIEW: A Gala Evening: Bryn Terfel (bass- baritone), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans Michael Fowler Centre, May 3 Bryn Terfel, besides being one of the great bass baritones gracing the opera stages of today, is a larger than life character in all senses of the word.
New Zealand Opera’s production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly opened in Auckland on Thursday and played to an almost full house at the newly refurbished ASB Theatre in the Aotea Centre. You probably know the story – the philandering Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, US Navy, finding himself in Nagasaki, takes a wife, the completely naive and trusting Butterfly.
Stuff music blogger Simon Sweetman will soon find out if he really is the man. The ruthless critic who has given out more hits than Savage, will take centre stage when he interviews Leonard Cohen’s biographer Sylvie Simmons live on stage at the Carterton Events Centre on May 21
Her husband is dead, her children are scattered, her cause crumbling.
Lil’ Wayne is in the hospital again in critical condition, it has been reported.
The veterans of the Olympic Games cede the victory dais to a younger generation of swimmers who tumble records as easily as turns By They are too young to know fear, but already have the work ethic of mature professionals; they have a young person’s hopes and the obsessiveness of those that have perhaps not yet dreamed enough.
Those who knew Canadian folk musician Taylor Mitchell say her passion for her craft was matched by her affinity for nature.