Punk hero Amanda Palmer and boundary-pushing circus cabaret, Limbo Unhinged are the latest shows to be revealed for Auckland Arts Festival 2020. Announced today and on sale from 10.30am they bring candid storytelling and wildly-unhinged playfulness to next year’s festival line-up.
“Mirror mirror on the wall … who is the fairest of them all …” French company Ballet Preljocaj performs its darkly delectable contemporary retelling of the classic fairy tale Snow White in its New Zealand premiere, exclusive to Auckland Arts Festival.
This winter, the Royal New Zealand Ballet invited choreographers from three continents to share New Zealand stages in Bold Moves – a magnificent mixed bill of daring works at Auckland’s ASB Theatre.
As part of the Auckland Arts Festival, indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie took the stage at Auckland’s Civic Theatre, for a night of old and new favourites. There was something for everyone, with the band mixing in their popular hits alongside fresh tracks from their most recent album Thank You for Today.
The grandeur of the Civic Theatre provided the perfect setting for Camille O’Sullivan’s stunning performance last night of the songs of Nick Cave.
Indigenous Canadian duo A Tribe Called Red have been creating some of the most thrilling political work over the last five years and their performance at the Auckland Arts Festival last night was an absolute privilege to witness.
Indian classical and progressive sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar performed compositions from her album Land of Gold at the Festival Playground Music Arena on March 18 2018. Shankar was accompanied by percussionist and Hang player Manu Delago.
It is very rare as an adult to feel childlike wonder. It took the opening night of The Naked Samoans Do Magic at the Civic – as part of the Auckland Arts Festival- for our reviewer to succumb to the childlike joy of 90 minutes of cheers, swears, glee, magic and roaring laughter. The 13th […]
A child victim’s experience of terrorism is well outside the usual theatrical fodder, but Us/Them drops us into the middle of the 2004 Beslan School Siege. The 13th Floor’s Neesha Bremner attended opening night.
More 13th Floor Auckland Arts Festival coverage… here is Yoson An with his take on A O Lang Pho…