Category: Arts & Culture

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 […]

Stephen Fry has announced a one off Auckland show. The acclaimed comedian and actor is promising an evening of fun and frivolity on his stage show, titled Telling Tales, which he will bring to Auckland for one night only on December 2 at The Civic. Fry is openly gay and has been a long time […]

Acclaimed director and playwright Benjamin Henson, will direct 2016’s Summer Shakespeare play The Tempest. The Auckland production of The Tempest will “take a fresh look at the music and merriment of this stormy tale of love and loss, forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment.” the AUSA Summer Shakespeare Trust says in a statement. Henson, who is openly […]

Sandi Hall reviews Benjamin Henson’s new play, Not Psycho. Every second day of the year, a child is admitted to a New Zealand hospital suffering from the injuries of assault, of neglect, or other maltreatment. Fifty percent of those children are under 5. Ordeals survived by such children cause them to juggle with sanity. For […]

The Wallace Arts Trust has announced the finalists for the 24th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2015. The Wallace Arts Trust has announced 85 finalists for its Annual Wallace Art Awards. There were 531 entries for the awards. ‘The Annual Wallace Art Awards aim to support, promote and expose New Zealand contemporary art and artists.’ Sir […]