Category: Arts & Culture
Green Day’s award-winning American Idiot The Musical opened at Auckland’s Civic Theatre last night – leaving the audience begging for more! The cast – fresh from their sold-out UK tour, captivated the Kiwi audience, drawing the crowd into the performance like nothing ever seen before on stage at the Civic. The mesmerising performance gives a […]
Playwright Antonia Joanna Pearce (known to her peers as simply Joanna) gained notoriety in the community with her Auckland Pride 2016 musical People Like Us. Her work has recently returned to the Auckland stage with Testostrogen, a play so personal, it has lead the playwright to take to the stage herself, to act out her […]
A new music video has been released marking Freddie Mercury’s 73rd birthday, and the work of the Mercury Phoenix Trust, which was set up in the singer’s name to help fight HIV/AIDS. Directed by Esteban Bravo and Beth David, the music video which features an animated video of Mercury’s 1985 track Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow, showcases […]
Local Aussie Queens will soon get their chance to feature on Australia’s very own version of the hit show RuPaul’s Drag Race! According to reports by TV Tonight, ITV Studios Australia has acquired local format rights to the hit show, which first hit screens in the United States back in February 2009. All going to plan, the Australian […]
Sandi Hall finds Auckland Theatre Company’s latest show is packed with wicked humour as it explores our heart’s desires. The American play, Six Degrees of Separation, opened to a packed, expectant audience at the ASB Waterfront Theatre last night (16th August) and delivered on its promise to make us laugh while showing us our heart’s […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Bold Moves opens in Wellington tomorrow night and tours nationally until Sunday 15 September. To celebrate, express caught up with RNZB’s Executive Director Lester McGrath, a ‘bold mover’ in his own right, he helped bring theatre to Auckland’s waterfront and has produced shows all around the world. He talks to Oliver […]
Jane Mulkerrins talks to the cast and crew of the new season of the groundbreaking show Pose – The first fictional series to present trans stories that have been made by trans people, both behind the camera and in front of it. Long before the first episode of Ryan Murphy’s now seminal series Pose ever […]
This month, Artist Gui Taccetti returns with Inferno, a subversive photography exhibition set to heat up Auckland’s Winter. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, artist Gui Taccetti moved to New Zealand a decade ago and last year was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Elam. His practise centres on photography with themes of religion, […]