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The selection of outstanding plays we have chosen for The Meridian Energy 2016/17 Season give The Court Theatre the opportunity to create some genuinely great theatre and to present our audiences with memories that will be kept alive for a lifetime.

A contemporary, urban staging of Macbeth, Shakespeare's dark tragedy is set to invade The Court with Mark Hadlow in the lead role.

Circa Theatre celebrates its 40th anniversary with a brand new production of Shakespeare's stunning tragedy KING LEAR.

A contemporary, urban staging of Macbeth, Shakespeare's dark tragedy is set to invade The Court with Mark Hadlow in the lead role.

?Sold-out shows have seen Auckland Arts Festival put on additional dates for performances in its 2016 festival line-up.

For this year's Summer Shakespeare Festival, TOP DOG THEATRE follows in the vein of last year's success, following one man.

Blue Man Group will bring audiences around the globe together for an unforgettable, euphoric celebration of life in full color with the launch of a World Tour beginning March 29, 2016 in Singapore.

Prince will bring his Piano & A Microphone tour to Australia and New Zealand this February for 10 exclusive and intimate shows.

Following the closure of the Maidment Theatre, Auckland Arts Festival 2016 is pleased to announce the World Premiere Season of Brass Poppies will now take place at the glorious and much-loved Mercury Theatre.

The two-time Tony Award-winning actress and Broadway Legend Sutton Foster will be performing for one night only this Friday the 29th of January at the Charles Luney Auditorium at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, following two weeks of tutoring and mentoring at the Christchurch International Mu

On the 51st anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, The Court Theatre's production of Winston's Birthday brings together four excessive personalities from this iconic British family at a luncheon to celebrate Winston's 88th birthday in 1962.

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Roger Hall's ROBIN HOOD THE PANTOMIME, directed by Susan Wilson, with music & lyrics by Paul Jenden & Michael Nicholas Williams, musical direction by Jane Keller & Oliver Devlin and choreography by Sacha Copland will run today 21 Nov - 22 Dec 2015 at Circa Theatre.

The first ever New Zealand professional production of Disney's Broadway musical MARY POPPINS comes to the stage at The Court Theatre in time for Christmas.

Love and Information by the acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill opened last night at the Basement Theatre on Queen Street in a very polished new production produced by The Actors' Program and Last Tapes Theatre Company.

Roger Hall's ROBIN HOOD THE PANTOMIME, directed by Susan Wilson, with music & lyrics by Paul Jenden & Michael Nicholas Williams, musical direction by Jane Keller & Oliver Devlin and choreography by Sacha Copland will run 21 Nov - 22 Dec 2015 at Circa Theatre.

The first ever New Zealand professional production of Disney's Broadway musical MARY POPPINS comes to the stage at The Court Theatre in time for Christmas.

A policeman, a priest and a blind man look for clues that will lead them to the missing playwright Bruce Mason, who has left his desk and vanished into the night.

Filmmaker Maisey Mata is invited to Wh?riki Manaw?hine ? Hauraki, a women's safe house, to document its clients and raise awareness of domestic violence.

Brass Poppies, the ground-breaking new chamber opera from Ross Harris and Vincent O'Sullivan (Requiem for the Fallen) continues its World Premiere Season at Auckland Arts Festival 2016.

Andonis Foniadakis's seductive Selon Desir, is inspired by the monumental opening choruses of the St Matthew and St John Passions.

Mark Hadlow excels in his hilarious one-man show MAMIL: Middle Aged Man in Lycra in a sell-out season at Christchurch's Court Theatre.

The Court Theatre presents Exit the King, written by Eugene Ionesco, translated by Neil Armfield & Geoffrey Rush, Directed by Ross Gumbley.