Extended Run Announced For THE WYRE LADY OF FLEETWOOD at Wellington Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2022
When his Dad's fishing loft is put on the market, Robbie is drawn back to his Fleetwood home where he is not the only sibling to have his eyes on the prize. Watch as one of Lancashire's famous sons decides whether to continue his career or find redemption in his family's eyes.
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2022
When his Dad's fishing loft is put on the market, Robbie is drawn back to his Fleetwood home where he is not the only sibling to have his eyes on the prize. Watch as one of Lancashire's famous sons decides whether to continue his career or find redemption in his family's eyes.
Final Shows Of WYRE LADY OF FLEETWOOD Announced At Wellington Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2022
THE WYRE LADY OF FLEETWOOD is currently making its New Zealand Debut, and just a few shows remain.
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2022
THE WYRE LADY OF FLEETWOOD is currently making its New Zealand Debut, and just a few shows remain.
BWW Review: GRAND HORIZONS at ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland
by Monica Moore - March 02, 2022
A spell-binding sandwich-making experience? The luncheon paper taking centre stage and the attention of all? I wouldn't have believed it either!. This is just one of the many kiwi moments made into artistry during Auckland Theatre Company's Grand Horizons presented by MINDFOOD.
by Monica Moore - March 02, 2022
A spell-binding sandwich-making experience? The luncheon paper taking centre stage and the attention of all? I wouldn't have believed it either!. This is just one of the many kiwi moments made into artistry during Auckland Theatre Company's Grand Horizons presented by MINDFOOD.
Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts Live Program Cancelled at Circa
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2022
The live performing arts programme for Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts has been cancelled – this includes Pakaru, A Movement of Story, Whare Kōrero, and Pōhutu at Circa Theatre.
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2022
The live performing arts programme for Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts has been cancelled – this includes Pakaru, A Movement of Story, Whare Kōrero, and Pōhutu at Circa Theatre.
BWW Review: THE COUNTRY HOUSE at Dolphin Theatre, Onehunga, Auckland
by Monica Moore - February 21, 2022
Dolphin Theatre Company, Onehunga Auckland delights with the New Zealand Premiere of the Donald Margulies, Chekhovian-inspired multi-generation play full of complicated thespians.
by Monica Moore - February 21, 2022
Dolphin Theatre Company, Onehunga Auckland delights with the New Zealand Premiere of the Donald Margulies, Chekhovian-inspired multi-generation play full of complicated thespians.
WHERE OUR SHADOWS MEET Comes to Circa Theatre This Week
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2022
A daughter sits in an empty bedroom desperately moulding a friend out of bed sheets. A father sits on the floor of his home, holding his baby girl, whispering ‘everything will be fine’. The collision of two worlds, two languages, and the pursuit of meeting in the space between.
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2022
A daughter sits in an empty bedroom desperately moulding a friend out of bed sheets. A father sits on the floor of his home, holding his baby girl, whispering ‘everything will be fine’. The collision of two worlds, two languages, and the pursuit of meeting in the space between.
BWW Review: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA at The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland
by Glenda Pearce - January 31, 2022
Opening night of the second play of the Shoreside's Auckland Shakespeare in the Park - and it's raining. However, spirits undeterred - the actors and the audience move into the auditorium, and the comedy begins. The Two Gentlemen of Verona was probably one of Shakespeare's first comedies alongside The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew. By writing a play about friendship versus love, Shakespeare was challenging more established writers of the time --namely, Chaucer, Lyly and Francis Bacon. The play incorporates many of the themes, stereotypes and ideas of his later works: how appearance and reality might not be the same thing, the use of disguises, mirror plots, and cross gender performances.
by Glenda Pearce - January 31, 2022
Opening night of the second play of the Shoreside's Auckland Shakespeare in the Park - and it's raining. However, spirits undeterred - the actors and the audience move into the auditorium, and the comedy begins. The Two Gentlemen of Verona was probably one of Shakespeare's first comedies alongside The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew. By writing a play about friendship versus love, Shakespeare was challenging more established writers of the time --namely, Chaucer, Lyly and Francis Bacon. The play incorporates many of the themes, stereotypes and ideas of his later works: how appearance and reality might not be the same thing, the use of disguises, mirror plots, and cross gender performances.
BWW Review: SOHO CINDERS at Te Auaha
by Lindsey Rusling - January 30, 2022
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. With music by George Stiles and lyrics by Anthony Drewe and a book by Anthony Drewe and Elliot Davis, Footlights is supporting InsideOUT, a rainbow (LGBTQIA2+) youth organisation by donating 10% of all ticket revenue.
by Lindsey Rusling - January 30, 2022
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. With music by George Stiles and lyrics by Anthony Drewe and a book by Anthony Drewe and Elliot Davis, Footlights is supporting InsideOUT, a rainbow (LGBTQIA2+) youth organisation by donating 10% of all ticket revenue.
BWW Review: Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE presented by Shoreside Theatre at The Pumphouse, Takapuna.
by Glenda Pearce - January 24, 2022
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. Whether this is your first time or another of many viewings, there is much to surprise, engage and amuse you in the superb and imaginative direction by the director, Trevor Sharpe. Shakespeare meant his audiences to be addressed directly and to feel as if the thoughts being spoken, are being spoken immediately and spontaneously to us. His text is dialogue not poetry.
by Glenda Pearce - January 24, 2022
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. Whether this is your first time or another of many viewings, there is much to surprise, engage and amuse you in the superb and imaginative direction by the director, Trevor Sharpe. Shakespeare meant his audiences to be addressed directly and to feel as if the thoughts being spoken, are being spoken immediately and spontaneously to us. His text is dialogue not poetry.
WHERE OUR SHADOWS MEET Comes to Circa Theatre Next Month
by BWW News Desk - January 19, 2022
A daughter sits in an empty bedroom desperately moulding a friend out of bed sheets. A father sits on the floor of his home, holding his baby girl, whispering ‘everything will be fine’. The collision of two worlds, two languages, and the pursuit of meeting in the space between.
by BWW News Desk - January 19, 2022
A daughter sits in an empty bedroom desperately moulding a friend out of bed sheets. A father sits on the floor of his home, holding his baby girl, whispering ‘everything will be fine’. The collision of two worlds, two languages, and the pursuit of meeting in the space between.
A NATURAL WOMAN Comes to Circa Theatre This Week
by BWW News Desk - January 18, 2022
Hailed as the greatest singer-songwriter when her landmark album “Tapestry” was released in 1971. Fifty years on, it’s timely that we come together and be wowed by the intensity and vigour of Carole King.
by BWW News Desk - January 18, 2022
Hailed as the greatest singer-songwriter when her landmark album “Tapestry” was released in 1971. Fifty years on, it’s timely that we come together and be wowed by the intensity and vigour of Carole King.
BYRON SUPPER CLUB Presents A Star Studded Evening Of Entertainment From 27 January
by BWW News Desk - January 17, 2022
Byron Supper Club returns to the Byron Theatre on Thursday 27, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 January 2022 at 7pm. Bookings are now open. This return season follows the 2020 season that sold out before it opened.
by BWW News Desk - January 17, 2022
Byron Supper Club returns to the Byron Theatre on Thursday 27, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 January 2022 at 7pm. Bookings are now open. This return season follows the 2020 season that sold out before it opened.
SWAN LAKE Will Be Performed by the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2022
by BWW News Desk - December 27, 2021
With Tchaikovsky’s sweeping score – lush, romantic, instantly recognisable – and Kristian Fredrikson’s opulent designs, gorgeously lit by Jon Buswell, Swan Lake transports the audience from palace ballroom to lakeside in wave upon wave of beauty and emotion. You’ll be inexorably drawn into the unfolding tragedy and exalt as the dancers bring every dramatic nuance of their iconic roles to life.
by BWW News Desk - December 27, 2021
With Tchaikovsky’s sweeping score – lush, romantic, instantly recognisable – and Kristian Fredrikson’s opulent designs, gorgeously lit by Jon Buswell, Swan Lake transports the audience from palace ballroom to lakeside in wave upon wave of beauty and emotion. You’ll be inexorably drawn into the unfolding tragedy and exalt as the dancers bring every dramatic nuance of their iconic roles to life.
BWW Review: DOUBLE BILL: AND THEY WERE WRONG/AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC INSTRUCTION at Courtney Creative
by Lindsey Rusling - December 17, 2021
These two plays are a theatrical Double Bill taking place in Courtney Creative on Courtenay Place in Wellington. It is wonderful to see experimental theatre by such young players who had obviously gone to great lengths in order to produce and direct their own plays but it was somewhat surprising not to see this type of theatre welcomed at BATS where the staging and seating would have benefitted the pieces. It was also surprising to discover that although the plays had been described as immersive, there were no conventions of the immersive theatre form except awareness and acknowledgement of the audience at times.
by Lindsey Rusling - December 17, 2021
These two plays are a theatrical Double Bill taking place in Courtney Creative on Courtenay Place in Wellington. It is wonderful to see experimental theatre by such young players who had obviously gone to great lengths in order to produce and direct their own plays but it was somewhat surprising not to see this type of theatre welcomed at BATS where the staging and seating would have benefitted the pieces. It was also surprising to discover that although the plays had been described as immersive, there were no conventions of the immersive theatre form except awareness and acknowledgement of the audience at times.
VENUS RISING Will Be Performed by the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2022
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2021
Three extraordinary works, by inspiring and internationally celebrated choreographers, capture the spirit and power of Venus Rising – brightest of stars, herald of the dusk and of the dawn.
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2021
Three extraordinary works, by inspiring and internationally celebrated choreographers, capture the spirit and power of Venus Rising – brightest of stars, herald of the dusk and of the dawn.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is Now Streaming From the Royal New Zealand Ballet
by BWW News Desk - December 06, 2021
A specially-filmed broadcast of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) Ryman Healthcare Season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will welcome the Christmas season and deliver a touch of magic as the curtains close on 2021.
by BWW News Desk - December 06, 2021
A specially-filmed broadcast of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) Ryman Healthcare Season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will welcome the Christmas season and deliver a touch of magic as the curtains close on 2021.
COME FROM AWAY is Coming to Auckland and Wellington in 2022
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2021
The Tony Award-winning musical Come From Away will be making its way to New Zealand in 2022! The show will be presented at the Civic Theatre on April 20, and at the St James in Wellington on May 20.
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2021
The Tony Award-winning musical Come From Away will be making its way to New Zealand in 2022! The show will be presented at the Civic Theatre on April 20, and at the St James in Wellington on May 20.
New Zealand Ballet Will Stream A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM After Cancelling Tour
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2021
After high demand and a successful Wellington run of socially distanced performances, the Royal New Zealand Ballet will bring The Ryman Healthcare Season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for purchase and viewing Live in your Living Room!
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2021
After high demand and a successful Wellington run of socially distanced performances, the Royal New Zealand Ballet will bring The Ryman Healthcare Season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for purchase and viewing Live in your Living Room!
THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF... Comes to the Court Theatre Next Month
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2021
Aotearoa’s history books are packed full of unsung heroes and hidden tales that our Court Youth Company are exploring in this brand-new, devised production. Creating theatre based around their favourite Kiwi figures, our 21 young creatives will perform the completely unauthorised and completely compelling history of...
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2021
Aotearoa’s history books are packed full of unsung heroes and hidden tales that our Court Youth Company are exploring in this brand-new, devised production. Creating theatre based around their favourite Kiwi figures, our 21 young creatives will perform the completely unauthorised and completely compelling history of...
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Will Be Performed at The Court Theatre This Month
by BWW News Desk - November 12, 2021
Based on the film originally released in 1960 and immortalised on film in the iconic 1986 movie, Little Shop of Horrors has also been captivating theatre audiences across the globe for decades.
by BWW News Desk - November 12, 2021
Based on the film originally released in 1960 and immortalised on film in the iconic 1986 movie, Little Shop of Horrors has also been captivating theatre audiences across the globe for decades.
VENUS RISING Will Be Performed by Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2022
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2021
Three extraordinary works, by inspiring and internationally celebrated choreographers, capture the spirit and power of Venus Rising – brightest of stars, herald of the dusk and of the dawn.
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2021
Three extraordinary works, by inspiring and internationally celebrated choreographers, capture the spirit and power of Venus Rising – brightest of stars, herald of the dusk and of the dawn.
Daniele Bongiovanni Will Bring His Work to New Zealand Next Month
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2021
From Italy, Bongiovanni's works travelled globally though participation in many international and contemporary art events; including the prestigious Venice Biennale, which Bongiovanni has been repeatedly invited.
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2021
From Italy, Bongiovanni's works travelled globally though participation in many international and contemporary art events; including the prestigious Venice Biennale, which Bongiovanni has been repeatedly invited.
Royal New Zealand Ballet Cancels Performances and Makes Changes to Auditorium
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2021
With a little Kiwi ingenuity, Wellington’s Opera House has made a swift pivot for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) Ryman Healthcare season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening 28 October.
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2021
With a little Kiwi ingenuity, Wellington’s Opera House has made a swift pivot for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) Ryman Healthcare season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening 28 October.
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Comes to the Court Theatre This Month
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2021
Let Ara Institute of Canterbury’s National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA) transport you back to the heady Prohibition days of late 1920s America in this loving send-up of the era’s frivolous musicals. A story within a story, The Drowsy Chaperone pokes fun at the many common tropes of old-fashioned musicals.
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2021
Let Ara Institute of Canterbury’s National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA) transport you back to the heady Prohibition days of late 1920s America in this loving send-up of the era’s frivolous musicals. A story within a story, The Drowsy Chaperone pokes fun at the many common tropes of old-fashioned musicals.
The Jesters Youth Company Introduces Their Debut Show PAST OUR BEDTIME at The Court Theatre
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2021
The Jesters Youth Company is The Court Theatre’s new youth initiative. Launched at the beginning of 2021, the programme is led by Court Jester, Millie Hanford, as their lead tutor.
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2021
The Jesters Youth Company is The Court Theatre’s new youth initiative. Launched at the beginning of 2021, the programme is led by Court Jester, Millie Hanford, as their lead tutor.
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