Theatre
Taking The High Ground
Taking the High Ground tells the stories of the first woman to scale Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1910 - Australian Freda du Faur, and of Kiwi Lydia Bradey who was the first woman to scale Mount Everest solo… Audio, Gallery
Sian and Makyla make art!
Sian's Dublin based company Super Paua creates theatre with a strong social focus for children and teenagers. For the residency though, she's writing a solo show inspired by her Irish and New Zealand… Audio
Le Moana at the Measina Festival
The fourth Measina Festival includes Le Moana's Watercress Tuna & the Children of Champion Street a multi-media show based on a children's story by Patricia Grace, and a series of dances based on the… Audio
Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin celebrate their theatre scenes
What do the award nominations tell us about what's hot and what's not in theatre. Are these three main centres producing very different work or is there a lot of crossover? Audio, Gallery
Mimedian Trygve Wakenshaw
This comic and mime artist is one of three New Zealand artists taking part in the Sydney Festival in January. Audio
John Collins - In Hemingway's Words
John Collins founded the New York-based experimental theatre company Elevator Repair Service 26 years ago and next year the ensemble brings the show The Select to Aotearoa. The play is a dramatisation… Audio
Actor Ken Blackburn’s Lifetime Achievement
Equity New Zealand has announced the recipient of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award - the great Ken Blackburn. The previous ones were Dame Kate Harcourt and Elizabeth MaCrae. It's hard not to spool… Audio
Ginette McDonald and Kate McGill - Playing Joan Scott
Long-serving New Zealand actor Ginette McDonald and her daughter, Kate McGill, also an actor, team up to perform Tom Scott's play, Joan, which tells the story of his mother. It's a special project for… Audio
A Piece Of You
What do you sound like? Greg Sinclair is a Scottish cellist and performance artist who specialises in children’s theatre. In A Piece For You Greg takes participants through a questionnaire, and… Audio, Gallery
Renée - Life story told in patches
At the age of 50, Otaki author Renée (Scots/Ngati Kahungungu) started to write plays - Wednesday to Come was her best loved. She has written eight novels and more than 20 plays and she often focuses… Audio
Theatre Critic - Genevieve McClean
Genevieve McClean reviews Auckland Theatre Company's production, Red Speedo Audio
Accidental Ushering - The Tale of Curtains of a Candle
An unusual tale of accidental ushering. Shaun D Wilson berates his flatmate, NZ Fashion Week Miromoda Emerging Designer winner Jacob Coutie, after Jacob’s stunningly poor texting leads to Shaun… Audio, Gallery
Body Double: Julia Croft and Karin McCracken
Long before the hashtag #MeToo began and the dark underbelly of abuse of women in Hollywood came to light, two New Zealand women were exploring, for a theatre piece, women's sexuality in both negative… Video, Audio
Ahi Karunaharan - Tea
Tea is a new play from British-born, New Zealand-raised Sri Lankan playwright Ahi Karunaharan and it premieres at the Auckland Arts Festival in March 2018. Karunaharan is an actor, writer and director… Audio
Roger Hall on NZ Theatre Month
Playwright Roger Hall recently announced plans to hold a New Zealand Theatre Month next year... to celebrate the role and importance of theatre everywhere, from the grandest theatres, to basements and… Audio
Fasitua Amosa and David Fane - The Mountaintop
The Mountaintop is an award-winning play by African American playwright Katori Hall, based on a fictional account of Martin Luther King's last night on earth at the Lorraine Motel Room in Memphis… Audio
The Shells We Wear
Salvador Dali is the inspiration behind the new dance-theatre work, Lobsters, opening at Wellington's Circa Theatre this week. Director Miranda Manasiadis and musician and composer Lucien Johnson are… Audio
Theatre Critic Pinky Agnew
Pinky talks about a new play at Wellington's Circa Theatre, Lobsters Audio
Modern dating in musical form
What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on? Just imagine that, but a lot worse, and on stage in front of hundreds of people. Dating, in particular through the app Tinder, is the inspiration behind the… Audio
Theatre taonga Rawiri Paratene on his latest project
Rawiri Paratene is a New Zealand acting taonga who's appeared in everything from Playschool to Whalerider, Hamlet to fully Te Reo spoken Purapura-whetu. Rawiri's again, stepping out starring in the… Audio
