An Evening Without Kate Bush is very much an evening with Sarah-Louise Young. The multi award winning performer is on stage and in perpetual motion for the full 90 minutes of this entertaining and involving cabaret.
It’s now a musical! The Lord Of The Rings: A Musical Tale opened at Auckland’s Civic Theatre is grand style…a red carpet, fancy gowns and a Hobbit or two ready to greet us.
PETER PAN is back for the school holidays in this new adaptation about the mischievous little boy who flies towards the “second star to the right and straight on ’til morning,” to reach his beloved Neverland.
GIRLS & BOYS is a one-woman show by Dennis Kelly under the direction of Eleanor Bishop. It brings a new level of intensity and grace to the stage, Beatriz Romilly giving us a captivating exploration of human emotion and experience. Originally performed in London and New York, and now here by Auckland Theatre Company, the […]
Scenes From The Climate Era delivered a series of scenarios from past, present and future —short conversations ranging from scientists in Antarctica, at a bioengineering think tank, about alternative ways to cool the planet, ethically deciding to have children, maintaining community during devastating circumstances. It dives deeply into serious and thought-provoking topics but balances its […]
Red, White and Brass is a story that needed to be told, first on film (screenplay by Halaifonua Finau and Damon Fepulea’i, directed by Damon Fepulea’i) and now retold on stage in this wonderful adaption by Leki Jackson-Bourke. It is a story of passion and identity. And how to be a fan.
Nicola Cheeseman is Back is a one-woman show about that one woman’s discovery that time runs as inexorably downhill as her now sagging body — that the big choice to make for anyone of any age, is to make your own choices — and to make them now — and then hang on for dear […]
The Dumb Waiter is a two-character one-act play by Harold Pinter. Last night in Ellerslie, too few people enjoyed a deliciously delivered Pinteresque moment by (potent pause) Productions.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND is a comedic play by Oscar Wilde first performed in London in 1895. A man must stop his wife from finding out that he’s built his entire career on selling out a political secret. The play exposes the problems with high society and deals with complex moral themes in a comic way.
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER is one of those stories that everybody knows, but few have ever heard, and rarely as well delivered as this. It’s a poem, you know, by Coleridge — from the very dawn of the Romantic Era — full of ice and snow and haunting spirits who punish an evil […]