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New Zealand's Downstage Presents Blues Legend Paul Ubana Jones, 8/29 by BWW
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- August 29, 2010 Blues guitar legend Paul Ubana Jones plays at Downstage this month with a spine tingling solo concert.
Of Nigerian and English ancestry, Paul was classically trained in cello and guitar but brings a global perspective to his music, combining highly original interpretations of classic songs such as 'The House of the Rising Sun' with originals. He crosses genres of blues, soul, groove and folk, with Indian tunings and an impressive finger-picking technique.
BATS Theatre Closes Katydid Runs August 28 by BWW News Desk
- August 28, 2010 Katydid plays The Pit Bar. The show is by Lucy O'Brien and presented by The Playground Collective
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Top Dog Theatre Presents POPCORN, 8/27 by BWW
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- August 27, 2010 Ben Elton, famous for stand up comedy, writing Blackadder amongst other great things, also wrote Popcorn, the Best Selling book, before turning it into a tremendously successful award winning play.
EROS Premieres at Court Theatre, 8/27-9/25 by BWW
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- August 27, 2010 In EROS, the new play by Caroline Lark making its world première at The Forge at The Court Theatre, the world of polyamory - participation in multiple simultaneous loving or sexual relationships - is explored in a play director Yvonne Martin describes as 'a comedy of contemporary manners with an intriguing twist'.
DON'T MENTION CASABLANCA Premieres at Court Theatre, 9/11 by Nicole Rosky
- August 26, 2010 DON'T MENTION CASABLANCA is playwright Michelanne Forster's powerful true story of the explosive love affair between her Jewish grandmother and her famous grandfather Michael Curtiz, the director of Casablanca and many other Hollywood classics.
fortyfivedownstairs Announces Their Upcoming Events and Shows by Gabrielle Sierra
- August 25, 2010 Since 2002 fortyfivedownstairs, a not-for-profit organisation, has offered an evocative urban space and a personalised service to an eclectic mix of artists for theatre, visual arts, forum, music and dance.
Footnote Dance Presents Forte 2010, 10/7 by Molly Hagan
- August 20, 2010 What do we know about the environment we find ourselves in? With six brand-new works, six of New Zealand's most exciting choreographers declare their responses to that question with the 2010 season of Footnote Forte.
Fortune Theatre Presents DING DONG, 8/20-9/11 by BWW
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- August 20, 2010 Ding Dong, from Sexe et Jalousie by Marc Camoletti, translated by Tudor Gates and directed by Amanda Rees, featuring Clare Adams, Sophia Elisabeth, John Glass, Anna Henare, Elizabeth McGlinn and Tim Raby, will play The Fortune Theatre in its NZ Premiere from August 20th - September 11th 2010.
New Zealand's Downstage Presents Blues Legend Paul Ubana Jones, 8/29 by Michelle Wong
- August 16, 2010 Blues guitar legend Paul Ubana Jones plays at Downstage this month with a spine tingling solo concert.
Of Nigerian and English ancestry, Paul was classically trained in cello and guitar but brings a global perspective to his music, combining highly original interpretations of classic songs such as 'The House of the Rising Sun' with originals. He crosses genres of blues, soul, groove and folk, with Indian tunings and an impressive finger-picking technique.
BATS Theatre Presents Katydid Runs August 18-28 by Gabrielle Sierra
- August 16, 2010 Katydid plays The Pit Bar. The show is by Lucy O'Brien and presented by The Playground Collective
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Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Plays BATS Through Aug 14 by BWW News Desk
- August 14, 2010 The dog is dead, the boy is sad, his sister is a goth, his blanket-toting best buddy's a pot-head and the rest of the gang are an assortment of sex-crazed, homophobic, narcissistic, hard-partying, institutionalised and down-right typical teenagers.
Downstage Theatre Presents THE DECEMBER BROTHER Aug 14-Sept 11 by BWW News Desk
- August 14, 2010 SEEyD Return to Downstage - In her thirties, Rebecca is told she was adopted. She decides to track down her birth family but what she finds are murdered relatives, a sibling in jail, two sides to a story and no idea who to believe.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Plays BATS Aug 3-14 by BWW News Desk
- August 14, 2010 The dog is dead, the boy is sad, his sister is a goth, his blanket-toting best buddy's a pot-head and the rest of the gang are an assortment of sex-crazed, homophobic, narcissistic, hard-partying, institutionalised and down-right typical teenagers.
THE PERFUMED GARDEN Plays the Forge, 7/16-8/14 by BWW News Desk
- August 14, 2010 The author of 2008's highly successful BAGHDAD, BABY! visits a world of desire and danger in THE PERFUMED GARDEN, exploring romance, humour and memory amid the history of a land that has endured innumerable invasions.
EROS Premieres at Court Theatre, 8/27-9/25 by Nicole Rosky
- August 11, 2010 In EROS, the new play by Caroline Lark making its world première at The Forge at The Court Theatre, the world of polyamory - participation in multiple simultaneous loving or sexual relationships - is explored in a play director Yvonne Martin describes as 'a comedy of contemporary manners with an intriguing twist'.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Plays BATS Through Aug 14 by Gabrielle Sierra
- August 09, 2010 The dog is dead, the boy is sad, his sister is a goth, his blanket-toting best buddy's a pot-head and the rest of the gang are an assortment of sex-crazed, homophobic, narcissistic, hard-partying, institutionalised and down-right typical teenagers.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Plays BATS Aug 3-14 by BWW
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- August 03, 2010 The dog is dead, the boy is sad, his sister is a goth, his blanket-toting best buddy's a pot-head and the rest of the gang are an assortment of sex-crazed, homophobic, narcissistic, hard-partying, institutionalised and down-right typical teenagers.
fortyfivedownstairs Announces Their Upcoming Shows and Events by Gabrielle Sierra
- July 28, 2010 Since 2002 fortyfivedownstairs, a not-for-profit organisation, has offered an evocative urban space and a personalised service to an eclectic mix of artists for theatre, visual arts, forum, music and dance.
Fortune Theatre Presents DING DONG, 8/20-9/11 by Nicolas Coburn
- July 27, 2010 Ding Dong, from Sexe et Jalousie by Marc Camoletti, translated by Tudor Gates and directed by Amanda Rees, featuring Clare Adams, Sophia Elisabeth, John Glass, Anna Henare, Elizabeth McGlinn and Tim Raby, will play The Fortune Theatre in its NZ Premiere from August 20th - September 11th 2010.
Downstage Theatre Presents THE DECEMBER BROTHER Aug 14-Sept 11 by Gabrielle Sierra
- July 27, 2010 SEEyD Return to Downstage - In her thirties, Rebecca is told she was adopted. She decides to track down her birth family but what she finds are murdered relatives, a sibling in jail, two sides to a story and no idea who to believe.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Plays BATS Aug 3-14 by Gabrielle Sierra
- July 26, 2010 The dog is dead, the boy is sad, his sister is a goth, his blanket-toting best buddy's a pot-head and the rest of the gang are an assortment of sex-crazed, homophobic, narcissistic, hard-partying, institutionalised and down-right typical teenagers.