Category: Arts & Culture
Stephen Williams appears in Velvet which debuts on 23 September. He runs over what he likes about the show and how he keeps that body looking great! What are you most excited about in your performance for Velvet? I think just getting a new audience to play with every night is pretty fun and exciting. […]
Last Legs is a lethally-funny black comedy about sex, death and politics, with an irresistible appeal to the old and bold of heart. This new play by Roger Hall, produced by Auckland Theatre Company debuts on 12 September in the ASB Waterfront Theatre. News that Bill English is to open a new wing of the […]
The International Cabaret Season shows kick off on 14 September and run until 1 October. Express recently previewed Velvet (and the beautiful Stephen Williams who takes part in this is our Hottie of the month). Here we look at three more shows, starting with O A’u (It’s Me) which stars Spencer Papali’I who appears […]
Zakk d’Larté sat down with Auckland-based Māori designer Ryan Turner ahead of the upcoming New Zealand Fashion Week. Inspired by androgynous European and Japanese styles, Turner’s designs originate from the combination of these two opposing cultures. His label offers unisex clothing and apparel to people of all genders, age and size. “One of my goals […]
Former Creative Director Shane Bosher returns to the Silo theatre directing a throbbing, juicy, modern, comedy that will fuck with your brain. Staging Cock the 2010 Olivier award winning play in New Zealand for the first time feels like a return to form for the Silo theatre brand – the company that taught Auckland what […]
Writer-director Francis Lee, who recently won the Sundance World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for Directing, talks to express about his feature debut, God’s Own Country, a touching story of how sudden romance and first love can change everything. What inspired you to make the film? I grew up on the Pennine Hills in West Yorkshire in the […]
We chat with Vida Gibson and Samuel Austin, two of the brightest lights debuting in the Auckland Theatre Company’s showing of Nell Gwyn, a comedic stage within a stage. Unassuming is a term not usually bracketed with the lights, bluster and dazzle of the theatre stage where song, dance, witticisms and exaggeration create magic. And […]
One of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s largest and most ambitious productions of the year will be performed in Wellington and Auckland in August. French composer, Hector Berlioz’s lavish The Damnation of Faust: Concert Opera boasts four internationally-renowned singers and the Freemasons New Zealand Opera Chorus, alongside the NZSO, under the baton of Music Director, […]