CIRCA THEATRE

In 1985 the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. Its Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base. It’s ...

The magical fairy tale Cinderella bursts onto the Circa stage with a modern local twist. Cinderella lives in the basement of a damp, leaky Aro ...

After a rapturous sell-out season in 2016, Penny Ashton’s bonnet is back. Flushed by seven years of success, from Edinburgh to Edmonton to Adelaide, comes ...

Rose (Julie Edwards) is a free-spirited art history student who sleeps with any boy she likes the look of. Her companions are Di (Lara Macgregor), ...

Judy is a picture-perfect ’50s housewife. She spends her days making the perfect devilled eggs, mixing the perfect Screwdrivers and being the perfect homemaker to ...

Join Skipper The Snail, Honey The Bee and all their glittering garden buddies in this truly delightful theatre experience about friendship, nature and being your ...

From Lucy Kirkwood, writer of the highly acclaimed Chimerica and The Children, comes this exciting new work. Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. ...

In 1985 the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. Its Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base. It’s ...

In this brand-new play by acclaimed New Zealand playwright Jo Randerson, two characters attempt to mend their relationship. One of them has a gun. In ...

Celebrating a decade since its sellout debut season, Te Rēhia Theatre Company are proud to present the Wellington premiere of Raising the Titanics by award-winning ...

Dungeoning and Dragoning takes the beloved basement tabletop role-playing game and turns it into a spectator sport, where improvised theatre meets collaborative storytelling meets your ...

After two years of sharing a room in a mental institution Elling and Kjell are allowed out, back into society. It’s not that they’re dangerous, ...

The great white tree was a place where children came to play, to climb amidst its branches, a place where creatures made their homes, the ...

Isaac returns to home from a stint in the armed forces to discover his suburban family engaged in a war of their own. His mother, ...

ndoubtedly our most successful and blazingly popular theatre legend, playwright Roger Hall KNZM, QSO, brings you his latest outstanding comedy. Gen and Barry have made ...

Written by Marcia Vidal Nolte Directed by Subin Kara Ahn Constantine is a photographer turned mortician, who took over his dads position after he died. ...

One year in the life of a family. The Prices are just like me and you. They’re not from the top end of town, but ...

An artist arrives in his paint-spattered studio ready to create a new work. He waits for inspiration. When it finally comes, things don’t proceed quite ...

Mr Red Light is a man who attracts bad luck. So naturally, when he tries to rob a bank he fails miserably and ends up ...

A whirlwind of theatrical delight. Following a hugely successful premiere season at BATS, Wonderful comes to Circa. Napier 1959. Brother Vianney has a calling. To ...

A story of two strays. Set on the salty and smoky coast of Turkey, against the backdrop of one of humanity’s oldest and richest oral ...

Curiouser and Curiouser! Join Alice and our favourite Dame in a madcap adventure down the rabbit hole. Why is Wellington in peril? Is it because ...

Back by popular demand!! 7 shows only! After a sell-out season the smash-hit Cringe Worthy! returns to Circa for one week in December! Enjoy a ...

From the award-winning Kiwi/Samoan playwright of last year’s smash hit At the Wake, comes the world premiere season of Uma Lava. Three strangers – a ...

Hell’s bells. From the award-winning Kiwi/Samoan playwright of last year’s smash hit "At the Wake", comes the world premiere season of Uma Lava. Three strangers ...

Sylvia once travelled the world and visited its famous ballet theatres. Now she spends time alone in her attic, filled with her daughter’s unwanted possessions ...

Sometimes love is worth a good fight John wants out and so he’s taking a break from his needy boyfriend. Free from Mr. Co-Dependent, the ...

He Kura Korero encourages young people to be bold and brave in using Te Reo Maori in everyday life, whether they know a little or ...

Pope Benedict and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio meet at the Castel Goundolfo, the Pope’s Summer Residence in August 2012. We witness their imagined discussion....

A smorgasboard of contagiously cringeworthy songs, served with a huge dollop of cheesy comedy. NZ in the 1970s and the cultural cringe was in full ...

It’s election night and a fledgling new party led by the charismatic and idealistic Aria Robson clinches one seat in Parliament. That same night, an ...

It’s 1998. Otto is twelve but online he’s thirteen and he’s pretty sure he gets away with it. He lives with his mum, dad, and ...

It’s 1995 in the Swiss Alpes where Patricia Highsmith lives, refusing to contact her increasingly desperate publishers who are urging her to write the final ...

From the award-winning Kiwi/Samoan playwright of international festival hit Black Faggot, comes the Wellington premiere season of AT THE WAKE. Chain smoking, booze swilling Joan ...

A multi-award winning collaboration, Rushes is an inter-arts experience like no other. Immerse yourself in this unique experience where live music gig meets art gallery ...

Tom Scott’s play, Joan follows his mother’s life from a humble childhood in Southern Ireland to raising six children in grueling circumstances with an angry ...

In 1916 a multi-national mass of humanity descended on the ancient city of Salonica. Refugees and soldiers created a vast tented city. In the lull ...

Peter Pan the Pantomime returns 2 January! This hugely entertaining panto provides spadesful of fun with outstanding singing and dancing by a tip-top cast. Peter ...

World Premiere A fabulous new musical play starring all-time theatre favourites Geraldine Brophy and Jane Keller. Iris and Rosemary were pen pals when they were ...

Award-winning production returns "Pure magic... together they are magnificent" - The Listener Sylvia used to travel the world and its famous ballet theatres. Now she ...

A cracker Kiwi camping comedy Following a triumphant sell-out season in 2011, The Motor Camp returns. Enjoy the escapades of two couples and two teenagers ...

With special Guests from Barcelona - Cristina Lopez Gomes (cante) and Paul Bosauder (guitar) Haunting song, intense emotions and mesmeric rhythms Desde Sevilla Flamenco Dance ...