Category: Arts & Culture

Academy cinema continues showcasing some of the world’s best GLBT films this month. November’s offering is the compelling Gayby Baby Gayby Baby premiered in Australia at the Sydney Film Festival in June to widespread critical acclaim, with reviewers praising the candidness of the film. Gayby Baby is undoubtedly motivated by the director’s support for marriage […]

Levi Joule chats with Liz Roberts and Alison Mau about First Lady, a book that tells the story of New Zealand’s sex change pioneer. Liz Roberts’ story is pretty remarkable. First Lady tells that story – warts and all, from her upbringing in a conservative Christchurch family, the father who despised her, the abusive marriage […]

Legacy Project is set to return for a third year during next year’s Auckland Pride festival. Legacy Project will once again be returning to Q Theatre Loft as their 2016 performance venue. “Legacy Project 3 will provide an opportunity for any emerging writer to have their new work performed on stage as part of the […]

HUDSON & HALLS LIVE! is Silo Theatre’s final show for the year, and is set to be a stunner. Premiering at Auckland Live’s Herald Theatre from November 5 – December 5, HUDSON & HALLS LIVE! offers a glimpse into the remarkable journey and terrible behaviour of two incredible personalities that were New Zealand’s original great […]

The Opening Night of Puccini’s Tosca at the Aotea Centre on Thursday 17 September featured a feast for the aural, visual and olfactory palette and concluded dramatically and far too quickly for an evening that was most enjoyable. Tosca is a pacey story of love, jealousy, dishonesty, intrigue, torture, duplicity, attempted rape, murder and suicide. […]

Sandi Hall reviews The Black All creative people experience depression to a greater or lesser degree, the pundits say. The Black, opening at the Basement Theatre last night, gives a voice as clear as a ring of bells to that enveloping condition. This is the first play from Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu, who we know previously as […]

Mika Haka and Zakk d’Larté with their NZ Fashion Week wrap up. Fashion is alive, kicking and making mega economic benefits again at NZFW. But this global fashion season began for us with TOM* – Toronto Men’s Fashion week, where emerging leader Siche Zhang’s “Swimming With Sharks” mixtape screamed down the runway for the Keniya-X […]

Following on for their successful 2015 season as part of Auckland Pride and Auckland Fringe 2015, LEGACY PROJECT returns for a third year. Are you a queer writer with a passion for theatre but not sure how to get your work onto stage? Or are you a director who’s looking for that next exciting script […]