Welcome to Le Basement XXXmas Cabaret! It’s The Basement Theatre’s biggest fundraiser of the year, and I would like to report that they staged a full on banger of an extravaganza for us. However, what with Covid-19 and no bums on seats, it’s dire times…
Basement Theatre returns in September after the longest closure in the theatre’s history with their Reunited Season – a season filled with an amalgamation of shows from the cancelled Summer and Winter seasons, a few rescheduled shows from the second lockdown, some new shows, and even some past hits. Including climate warriors, magical extravaganzas, workshops, […]
Does colourism exist? Yes, yes it does. But ask someone if they have ever been guilty of it and the answer may not be so clear cut. Perfect Shade is a provocative one-person show exploring our conflicted obsession with the colour of our skin.
Bing-Bong. Welcome aboard Queer Air… Sarah Kidd went along for one wild and bumpy ride on opening night full of laugh-out-loud moments and deeply personal exposes of the world seen through queer eyes.
A brand new decade at Basement Theatre begins this week with an absolutely packed Pride, Fringe and Summer 2020 programme of groundbreaking, vital and exhilarating live performance.
The Actors’ Program stages an ambitious production of Moira Buffini’s acclaimed Welcome to Thebes at the Basement Theatre.
If you’ve ever wanted to feel empowered, heartbroken, and loved all at once, then Olivia Hall and Carrie Rudzinski‘s How We Survive is the show for you!
Take a stunning cast of over a dozen South Asians of all ages and genders, throw in handfuls of song, dance, colour and exuberant tenacity across seventeen beautifully curated short theatre pieces and you have the spectacular First World Problems 2.0.
NEW VOICES. NEW PROBLEMS. AND ABSOLUTELY NO SOLUTIONS. Twenty something fun and rowdy South Asian artists will be shaking up Basement Theatre, with First World Problems 2.0 coming to Auckland this October.
Lift Women’s Voices. Burn The Patriarchy Down. How We Survive is a feminist spoken word performance featuring internationally acclaimed poets Olivia Hall and Carrie Rudzinski. This two woman show presents a powerful and honest narrative on what it is to be a woman living and surviving in 2019.