Sophie Roberts News

THE WRITER is an emotionally rich, eloquent and engaging play that surprises. This is an adult play that addresses creativity, gender inequalities and power, particularly in the theatre setting: 'You get to make the world and I get to live in it.'

After a year of surprises which forced the company to shut its doors and suspend their programme, Silo Theatre is looking forward and embracing a time of newfound opportunity with their innovative programme for 2021.

The Young Vic and LIFT Festival today announces that two-time Olivier award-winner, Golden Globe winner, and Tony and BAFTA nominated actress Ruth Wilson will star in the UK Premiere of The Second Woman. Nat Randall and Anna Breckon's internationally acclaimed show sits at the intersection of performance, video and film, as 100 different men are invited to appear opposite Ruth Wilson as 'Virginia' who performs the exact same scene again and again, for a full 24 hours. In their first collaboration since 2014, this Young Vic and LIFT co-production brings an exciting new version of this internationally acclaimed epic feat of endurance theatre and live cinema to London as part of LIFT 2020.

Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah has announced the Programme for 2020.

In case you weren't excited enough for your yearly live music pilgrimage to Brisbane's Fortitude Valley Live Music Precinct for a sensory overload of music, BIGSOUND Festival has shown all its cards, dropping all the tools you need today to choose your own sonic adventure. 

Christchurch will be served a riotous feast of slapstick, nostalgia, laughter and love when 80s Kiwi cooking show duo Peter Hudson and David Halls are celebrated in Hudson & Halls Live!

The stars are all set to shine on tonight's red carpet - check out the first batch of arrivals below!

Torn from the silver screen, simple8 brings one of the darkest and most influential films of all time spinning onto the stage in this fast and frenzied fairground sideshow performance. A box office smash on its 1920 cinematic release, silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has come to define cinematic expressionism and inspire film noir.

Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp. Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, shifts from 1958 to the present and back again in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion.

Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp. Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, shifts from 1958 to the present and back again in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion.

The 2009 production of Hello, Dolly! won three Laurence Olivier Awards at this year's ceremony, taking awards for Best Musical Revival, Best Actress in a Musical (Samantha Spiro) and Best Theatre Choreography (Stephen Mear).

FRINGE 2010: Pirates vs Ninjas by Anya Tate-Manning will close on February 15 at Bats Theatre.

Long Cloud Youth Theatre in association with Downstage, W.P.A.C and Young and Hungry present the New Zealand premiere of Vernon God Little, the controversial Booker Prize winning novel by DBC Pierre. The show plays its final performance on February 13, 2010.

Long Cloud Youth Theatre in association with Downstage, W.P.A.C and Young and Hungry present the New Zealand premiere of Vernon God Little, the controversial Booker Prize winning novel by DBC Pierre.

FRINGE 2010: Pirates vs Ninjas by Anya Tate-Manning opens February 2, 2010 at Bats Theatre.

FRINGE 2010: Pirates vs Ninjas by Anya Tate-Manning opens February 2, 2010 at Bats Theatre.

Long Cloud Youth Theatre in association with Downstage, W.P.A.C and Young and Hungry present the New Zealand premiere of Vernon God Little, the controversial Booker Prize winning novel by DBC Pierre.

Germany, 1942. Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina. Instead, at 22 years old she became Adolf Hitler's personal secretary.

The winners of the 18th annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards were named last night, with Auckland-based Wellingtonian Arthur Meek scooping the major prizes for his production Collapsing Creation.