(Nov. 15 11:23 AM) - Titirangi Theatre Presents The Sleeper - by Catherine Butterfield The New York Twin Towers have fallen. A sheltered suburban housewife, deeply worried by the new security threats, both imagined and real, finds herself drawn to her son's tutor, a young and handsome man with politics very different from her own. Her life, as she knows it, is about to change forever.
(Nov. 13 10:48 AM) - On November 20, 1964, Downstage Theatre opened its Cambridge Terrace doors for the first time with Edward Albee's The Zoo Story starring Peter Bland and Martyn Sanderson.
(Nov. 8 12:30 AM) - The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will tour Australia and New Zealand in a new concert tour, beginning in October.
(Nov. 6 12:30 AM) - The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will tour Australia and New Zealand in a new concert tour, beginning in October.
(Nov. 5 11:10 PM) - One of the world's greatest musical comedies is going full steam ahead at The Court Theatre, with ANYTHING GOES opening on November 21st. The production will run through February 13, 2010.
(Nov. 5 4:11 PM) - Germany, 1942. Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina. Instead, at 22 years old she became Adolf Hitler's personal secretary.
(Nov. 4 11:04 AM) - There comes a time when you just want to sit back and enjoy a show and Divine Divas had promise, a lavish, full-scale show which pays tribute to all the great Diva's of the past several decades. It described itself as a Las Vegas style show. It described itself as a grand night out. It described itself as an Un-Boy-lievable experience. I describe it as self indulgent fun for the performers not the audience and shouldn't the audience be the ones having just as much fun as the ones on stage?
(Nov. 3 5:44 PM) - And so we have it, the final scripted performance for The Forge in 2009. Backstage is the performance which puts actors on a stage and lets the be as big, brash, bolshy and over the top as they possibly can be and what a treat it is.
(Nov. 2 12:30 AM) - The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will tour Australia and New Zealand in a new concert tour, beginning in October.
(Oct. 31 2:30 AM) - Live at Six is a newsroom thriller, examining the intense rivalry between New Zealand's two major television news programmes. When a scandalous video of one TV News anchor is leaked online, the competing stations use the same footage to create two vastly different news stories, each pushing their individual agendas and racing towards that 6pm deadline - all in real time and live on stage.
(Oct. 31 2:00 AM) - The Young & Hungry Arts Trust, in partnership with Auckland Theatre Company, announced that submissions for their 2010 Playwright's initiative are now open. The theme for 2010 is: FRESH. Submissions close at 5 pm October 31st 2009.
(Oct. 31 2:00 AM) - Live at Six is a newsroom thriller, examining the intense rivalry between New Zealand's two major television news programmes. When a scandalous video of one TV News anchor is leaked online, the competing stations use the same footage to create two vastly different news stories, each pushing their individual agendas and racing towards that 6pm deadline - all in real time and live on stage.
(Oct. 31 12:30 AM) - The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will tour Australia and New Zealand in a new concert tour, beginning in October.
(Oct. 30 1:30 AM) - The Forge at The Court Theatre is thrilled to present the world première of the latest play by Roy Smiles: the fast-paced farcical comedy BACKSTAGE.
(Oct. 30 12:30 AM) - The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will tour Australia and New Zealand in a new concert tour, beginning in October.