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.
Theatre Review
The Music Man – Aotea Centre: October 12, 2023 (Musical Theatre Review)
The Music Man is back! The big-band musical premiere on Broadway way back in 1957 and now it is playing for four nights at Auckland’s Aotea Centre. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda was there.
DIVAS – ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland: Wednesday 11 October 2023
DIVAS is so much more than a tribute act show: it’s high level cabaret, showcasing the incredible talent of Australian Bernadette Robinson and the songs of ten diverse divas, alongside insights into their characters.
ÉMILIE – Directed By Sophie Lindsay: Q Theatre, 19-23 September
ÉMILIE is an ambitious music-drama telling the tale, or trying to, of the woman who brought Isaac Newton’s Latin prose to the people, and so first popularised –and extended – his ground-breaking scientific achievements.
Boom Shankar – Q Theatre Loft. Sept 6, 2023 Directed by Ahi Karunaharan.
Boom Shankar is billed as “an explosive comedy about life, love, and bomb defusal.” But our bomb is just a plot device (ahem) to get the jokes going — and too many of them fail to go off.
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.
Waiting for Waiting for Godot – Q Theatre Loft
Waiting For Godot: There’s a simple principle when making cocktails: that the resulting cocktail must be better than the ingredients. If you have a fine, aged, bottle of whiskey, for example, then if you can’t make it better then just take your whiskey neat.
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Pumphouse Theatre, Jan 24, 2023
The Merry Wives of Windsor from William Shakespeare, a comedy of social mores and sexual innuendo is given a ribald and riotous treatment by the Shoreside Theatre troupe.
The Art Of Black Grace 1/5 – Karanga Plaza: Nov. 20, 2022
The Art Of Black Grace 1/5, presented by Neil Iremia and Black Grace opened on November 20th. The 13th Floor’s Carin Newbould was there. Here is her report.
A Traveller’s Guide To Turkish Dogs – Q Theatre: Oct 18, 2022
A Traveller’s Guide to Turkish Dogs is a hilarious shaggy dog story whilst also being a tall tale of Homeric proportions. Made even more engaging by the fact that the narrative is from the true adventures of Kiwi Barnaby’s backpack global wandering.