Review: MY YEAR WITH LORRAINE at Pumphouse Theatre, Auckland
Excellent two hander , written and directed by Tanya M.
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Review: HOME, I'M DARLING by Laura Wade at Howick Little Theatre
What did our critic think of HOME, I'M DARLING at Howick Little Theatre? Imaginatively directed with an eye for detail by Carleena Walsh, this award-winning play is thought-provoking and effectively executed by a very talented cast and creative team.
Review: THE HEART BREAK CHOIR at ASB Waterfront Theatre
Auckland Theatre Company has begun its 30th anniversary year with a heartwarming play with all the great elements of top-class entertainment underpinned by deeper more gripping issues of trauma, loss, healing and the strength of community.
Review: 'THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR' BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE at Shoreside Theatre
What did our critic think of 'THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR' BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE at Shoreside Theatre?
Review: ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA at Shoreside Theatre, Pumphouse Theatre
What did our critic think of ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA at Shoreside Theatre, Pumphouse Theatre?
Review: DI AND VIV AND ROSE at The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland
What did our critic think of DI AND VIV AND ROSE at THE PUMPHOUSE Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland?Don't we all hunger for human connection? Love? Support? Laughter? Directed superbly, with exquisite attention to detail, by Stephanie McKellar- Smith, the action of this emotionally-charged play centres
Review: THE MADE at ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland
What did our critic think of THE MADE at ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland?
Review: THE WHALE RIDER at The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland
What did our critic think of THE WHALE RIDER at The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland?
Review: THE CAMPERVAN at The Pumphouse, Takapuna, Auckland
The play boils society down to two sorts of people: the ones who are focused on the accumulation of more, and the self-serving leeches who survive off those who accumulate.
Review: THE WASP at Q Theatre, Auckland
What did our critic think of THE WASP at Q Theatre, Auckland?
Review: SHEPHERD at Howick Little Theatre
What did our critic think of SHEPHERD at HOWICK LITTLE THEATRE?
Review: THE WRITER at Q Theatre
THE WRITER is an emotionally rich, eloquent and engaging play that surprises.
Review: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at Q
The compelling layers within layers of tension that expose the complexity of the human condition are exquisitely unraveled in Auckland Theatre Company's latest production, ''Long Day's Journey into Night' currently playing at Q Theatre.
BWW Review: THE WOMAN IN BLACK at Pumphouse
The audience is robbed of their sense of security; blindsided by anticipation and fear.
BWW Review: DHABA ON DEVON AVENUE at TAPAC
Opening night of a world premiere – and it’s a passionate and eloquent drama of a family polarised by a gamut of emotions: pride, determination, challenge and heritage.
BWW Review: HANNA at Dolphin Theatre, Onehunga, Auckland
Director Jennifer Ward-Lealand's expertise and wisdom of the stage lives and breathes through the performance of Cassandra Woodhouse in Hanna.
BWW Review: BRIDAL SHOP CONFESSIONS at Dolphin Theatre, Onehunga, Auckland
Dolphin Theatre's 'Bridal Shop Confessions' is a world premiere from award-winning New Zealand playwright Lindsey Brown.
BWW Review: GRAND HORIZONS at ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland
A spell-binding sandwich-making experience? The luncheon paper taking centre stage and the attention of all? I wouldn't have believed it either!.
BWW Review: THE COUNTRY HOUSE at Dolphin Theatre, Onehunga, Auckland
Dolphin Theatre Company, Onehunga Auckland delights with the New Zealand Premiere of the Donald Margulies, Chekhovian-inspired multi-generation play full of complicated thespians.
BWW Review: SOHO CINDERS at Te Auaha
Currently at Te Auaha, Wellington Footlights Society is staging the New Zealand Premiere of Soho Cinders, a charming, gender-reversed telling of the original Cinderella story.
BWW Review: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA at The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland
Opening night of the second play of the Shoreside's Auckland Shakespeare in the Park - and it's raining.
BWW Review: Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE presented by Shoreside Theatre at The Pumphouse, Takapuna.
Opening night of the first play of the Shoreside's Auckland Shakespeare in the Park - and it's a clever comedy, its controversy eloquently driven by polarised emotions: friendship, revenge, love, hate, justice, mercy.
BWW Review: DOUBLE BILL: AND THEY WERE WRONG/AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC INSTRUCTION at Courtney Creative
These two plays are a theatrical Double Bill taking place in Courtney Creative on Courtenay Place in Wellington.
BWW Review: 'SPIDER'S WEB' at Dolphin Theatre
This is an intricate plot of murder, police, drug addicts, invisible ink, hidden doorways, secret drawers, dropped clues and engineered plot twists.
BWW Review: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS at Howick Little Theatre
hlt studio offers a dramatized memoir of an advice columnist, who forges a connection of love, support, acceptance and forgiveness with hundreds of strangers by offering them advice from her own personal experience, opening up about her mistakes and flaws.
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