Category: Arts & Culture
Kiwi stars Todd Emerson and Chris Parker are transformed once more into the much-loved 80’s TV sensations Hudson and Halls in Silo Theatre’s production of Hudson & Halls Live! The side-splitting Christmas special was such a success in 2015 that it’s been brought back to life at Q Theatre for two whole weeks of pure […]
Romance fiction grosses more than a billion dollars a year – outselling mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy combined. Yet the millions of voracious women (and sometimes men) who read and write romance novels have remained oddly invisible. Love Between the Covers is an entertaining, empowering and inspiring look into the billion-dollar romance fiction industry and its […]
New Zealand’s very own and well respected award winning screenwriter, poetess, and story writer, Briar Grace-Smith’s play, When Sun and Moon Collide opened last night to her Auckland audience at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. The highly excitable audience, from teen-age years to the ones who have enriched their artistic skills over the decades, were all […]
Returning in 2017 after a hugely successful debut last year, the Pacific Dance Festival will launch an all new programme, running 15–24 June at Mangere Arts Centre in Auckland. Born out of the Pacific Dance Choreographic Laboratory (since 2009), the festival provides an opportunity for Pacific choreographers to create, develop, and perform original dance works […]
In VICELAND’s new series Twiz & Tuck, we tag along as two best friends snake their way from New York to California. Along the route, Twiz, who is gender fluid, and Tuck, a trans man who is soon to be married, stop in the cities that have shaped them, as well as some towns they’ve never seen. They visit family and drop in on former […]
Arts Laureate Award Winner, Briar Grace Smith, brings her award-winning play, When Sun & Moon Collide to life at the ASB Waterfront Theatre this month. Directed by profound Kiwi actor, Rawiri Paratene, and performed by Auckland Theatre Company, the play explores how identity, isolation and abandonment can shape our life experience. express sat down with […]
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in association with The Trusts Community Foundation Opera in Concert present Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in concert for one night only! Manon Lescaut is the story of a beautiful young woman (played by Italian soprano, Serena Farnocchia), who is torn between a life of material luxury and settling for true love. The story […]
When 29-year-old Year of Dragon Xin Ji, born in Lan Zhou China, discovered dancing at just eight years old, he knew he’d found his passion for life. This June, Auckland audiences will get to experience this masterful dancer at The New Zealand Dance Company showcase of Kiss The Sky during the Matariki Festival. After being […]