BWW Review: THE WOMAN IN BLACK at Pumphouse
The audience is robbed of their sense of security; blindsided by anticipation and fear.
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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.
BWW Review: THE MOUSETRAP at The Pumphouse, Takapuna
What would you expect from a classic murder mystery, written in 1952 that ran in London's West End continuously until 16 March 2020? And even then the stage performances were only discontinued due to the COVID-19 pandemic! Aren't you just a little curious about this phenomenon?
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES at Wainuiomata Little Theatre
Boubil and Schoenberg's musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo is a beast.
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at Te Auaha
Audiences in Wellington were holding their breath to see if, much-anticipated, WITCH Music Theatre's version of Sondheim's musical thriller, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
BWW Review: THE VIEWING ROOM at Howick Little Theatre
“Why did we wait a lifetime to speak?”
BWW Review: AN APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH at Langley Theatre, Auckland
An all-female cast of clever young women delivered an intriguing and highly entertaining performance.
BWW Review: WONDERFUL at Basement Theatre
This one-man show portrays a professional clergyman-educator with a deep passion for film and theatre.
BWW Review: THE REVIVAL at Dolphin Theatre
The Revival focuses on a group of bickering actors who slowly begin to realize their show is haunted.
BWW Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Hamilton Musical Theatre
Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum has burst into life with gusto on the Hamilton Musical Theatre.
BWW Review: THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN at Howick Little Theatre
Set in a suburban town in England in present time, 'THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN' is a contemporary and complex psycho-thriller, a 'whodunnit' with twists and turns, anticipations and numerous attempts to guess just who is guilty and who is not.
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Centrestage Youth Theatre
An impressive cast assembled by Centrestage Youth Theatre incited a standing ovation on their final performance of Legally Blonde.
BWW Review: SHORTLAND STREET: THE MUSICAL at Gryphon Theatre
Shortland Street is an iconic Kiwi soap opera based around the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital.
BWW Review: BLACKADDER ... IN LOVE at Playhouse Theatre Inc
I was invited along to opening night of Playhouse Theatre's production of Blackadder .
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