The Dry House, by Eugene O’Hare – Basement Theatre: 4-15 November
The Dry House is confronting. We’re greeted with a small suburban lounge, a house full of debris, a selection of empty bottles, and Alison Bruce with a bad case of the shakes.
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William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar – Basement Theatre: July 22-26 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar sometimes seems like it has a cast of thousands. Last time we saw it in Auckland it had at least twenty. Last night, at the Basement Theatre with two actors and one effective sound and lighting manager, it had a cast of two. It was remarkable.
The Ballad Of Briar Grant – Basement Theatre: July 15, 2025 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
The Ballad of Briar Grant is a slightly surreal mystery with a story about personal change. It’s an ambitious piece of writing with some vignettes of brilliance, delivered confidently by director Lia Kelly and a theatre team who know what they’re about. And it does have a real ballad.
MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS by Heartbreaker Productions. Basement Theatre, 20-24 August.
Midnight Confessions is a pajama-party confessional revelling in the joy, naivety and confusion of teenage friendship and growing up. A love story to girlhood and a more innocent (physical) age.
Chairs! – Basement Theatre: November 14, 2023
CHAIRS! starts off like a long-lost episode of the The Twilight Zone, yet unfortunately doesn’t really know how to finish.
How To Throw A Chinese Funeral – Basement Theatre: October 3, 2023 (Theatre Review)
How to Throw a Chinese Funeral is an immigrant story that asks if the migrant can ever really go home. Told through the travails of one family’s three generations gathering for a funeral, it dives dangerously close to melodrama before emerging as a commentary on the enduring strength of family and women’s place in a […]
An Imposter – Basement Theatre: August 29, 2023
An Imposter is a song cycle and melodrama by Ron Gallipoli, at the Basement Theatre. It may begin as melodrama, but ends as something entirely more penetrating.
Theatre Review: First World Problems 3.0 at Basement Theatre, 13 April 2021
It’s a large, vibrant and predominantly young ensemble cast that present this version of First World Problems, with scripts written during the strange and ominous year of pandemic and lockdown. Exuberance and humour sit next to heartbreak and remorse. Along with the bleeding out of identity and personality.
Basement Theatre Presents Digging to Cambodia
Multi-Award winning writer and actor Sarita Keo Kossamak So will be shaking up the floors of Auckland in March at Basement Theatre with her latest show Digging to Cambodia. Smashing together text, movement, AV and karaoke, this contemporary performance finally makes it’s Auckland premiere following from it’s critically acclaimed sell out season at Kia Mau […]
2021 Pride & Fringe at Basement Theatre
Basement Theatre kicks off 2021 with an exciting Auckland Pride Festival and Auckland Fringe Festival programme full of hilarious, heartfelt and experimental works. Oh, and a whole lotta cake.