Theatre

Including 'Mothers and Fathers', Joe Musaphia, Creation of Circa Theatre, Roger Hall, 'Glide Time', 'Middle Age Spread', Greg McGee, 'Foreskin's Lament', Anthony McCarten, 'Ladies Night' with Joe… Audio

Including Mervyn Thompson, 'First Return', 'Oh Temperance!' Robert Lord,' It Isn't Cricket', Downstage Theatre, Playmarket - it's creation, Nola Millar, first NZ Drama School, Theatre Corporate with… Audio

Including New Zealand Opera Company's 'Porgy and Bess', Inia Te Wiata, Maori Theatre Trust, formation of regional theatres - Four Seasons in Wanganui, Gateway in Tauranga, Court in Christchurch… Audio

Including Radio drama, formation of Downstage Theatre, Pat Evison in 'Happy Days' at Downstage, formation Central Theatre in Auckland, formation of Mercury Theatre in Auckland with Pat Evison, Davina… Audio

Including NZ Players Drama Quartet, Southern Comedy Players, Bruce Mason, 'The Pohutakawa Tree', 'The End of the Golden Weather', James K Baxter, 'Jack Winter's Dream', Globe Theatre in Dunedin with… Audio

Including The New Zealand Players, 'The Tree' by Stella Jones with Ngaio Marsh, Richard Campion, Raymond Boyce, John Gordon, Edith Campion, Elric Hooper, Raymond Hawthorne, Ken Blackburn, George… Audio

Including Maria Dronke, Unity Theatre, 'The Trap' by Kathleen Ross, Community Arts Service, 'Waiting for Godot', Professor James Shelly, Canterbury University Drama Society, Lawrence Olivier and… Audio

Including Alan Wilkie and his Shakespeare company, British Drama League, 'Rabbits', Repertory Theatre with Alan Wilkie, David Carnegie, Howard McNaughton, Glyn Strange, Bruce Mason, Prue Langbein, Eva… Audio

Including 'The Land of the Moa', Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Gold, J C Williamsons, Nellie Stewart, 'Our Nell', Bland Holt, 'The Doll's House' with Peter Sledmere, Peter Downes, John Dryden, Howard… Audio

Sound designer Jason Smith is fighting the battle of Lone Pine - digitally. He's recreating the sound of this epic conflict during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign for Auckland Theatre Company and their… Audio

Clown Ollie Cox gets alienated in his new show about a Martian sent to Earth to figure out life, love and the universe. Audio

'Asian Invasion - Ten Token Tales' by Ensembleimpact Productions is a performance made up of 10 New Zealand plays into an hour long piece touring to secondary schools across the country. Lynda heads… Audio

Leaving Middle Earth and layers of prosthetics behind him, Hobbit actor Peter Hambleton directs a play which puts the Bard in a precarious ethical situation. Audio

Simon London talks about staging a zombie apocalypse play in what was once part of Christchurch's Red Zone. Audio

Discussing the poems of Alan Brunton, as collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002. Audio

Founder and director of the Greek Theatre of New York, who brings Socrates Now, his interactive production of Plato's classic, to New Zealand this month. Audio

Australian stage and screen actor, currently onscreen in television drama series Rake in the lead role of defense barrister Cleaver Greene. Audio

Rochelle Bright crafts a unique piece of musical theatre, telling the story of her parents romance through a series of classic kiwi pop songs arranged and performed by Steph Brown, also known as Lips.

Irish actor Aidan Dooley brings to life the stories of Tom Crean, an unsung Antarctic explorer. Audio

Irish actor Aidan Dooley brings to life the stories of Tom Crean, an unsung Antarctic explorer. Audio