If you think you’ve seen every single possible Christmas story variation, you’re about to have your eyes opened by A Frickin Dangerous Space-mas. Basement Theatre’s annual Christmas show is an outrageously sexy, outer space, holiday spectacular! And that’s just the tip of the spaceship, if you will.
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!
Red Leap Theatre’s production of Janet Frame’s debut novel, Owls Do Cry, immerses the audience deep in the heart of the author’s masterpiece, loses us in the words, the sounds, the terror, the loss, the sweet moments of pure bliss. It literally left me gasping.
Sing It To My Face is an intergenerational production performed by 100 individuals split into four groups, each with their own distinct voice and perspective on life – expressing what they think of each other and how their own unique dreams and difficulties shape the world they live in.
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.
It’s a rare event to attend an entirely NZ-made rock opera – but Chris Williams‘ State Highway 48 opened to a packed house at the Bruce Mason Centre last night.
It’s SAD Hour at the Locket Bar and Karaoke Club. Barkeep/Karaoke Queen (Yvette Parsons) is singing her heart out as patrons (the audience) trickle in. Anna (Natalie Medlock) sits at the bar checking her phone waiting for her Tinder date to arrive. There’s a comfortable vibe to the place – it could be any bar […]
Husband and wife team, Jo Randerson and Thomas LaHood performed a solid hour of comedy at the Q Theatre Loft last night – leaving the audience gasping with laughter at their strangely absurd, but oh-so-accurate dissection of gender in these terribly strange times. OK – sometimes that laughter was a little nervous. At others downright […]
Full disclosure. I never knew, until told upon leaving the theatre on Saturday night, that ‘Once’ was once, was first, a feature film, a budget indie movie turned blockbuster hit. Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, but no, no idea. Another disclosure, I like bands, musicians, more of a gig-goer. As theatregoers go, a […]