Category: Arts & Culture
The Wild Blue Yonder is a gay-themed NZ play written in the late 90s that will finally make it’s stage debut this Pride at Garnet Station’s Tiny Theatre. Just in time for our proudest month of the year, comes a kiwi play whose gay protagonist, Martin, has been bitten by the Dusty (Springfield) bug. Set […]
Fiendishly naughty actor and playwright Patrick Graham is taking on the role of Bottom (for the second time) in Michael Hurst’s take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream at this year’s Auckland Summer Shakespeare. express probes his passive role. So this is the second time you’ll be a Bottom? I guess that makes me vers then. […]
Stutterpop-star and Metro Magazine’s ‘Most Exciting Playwright’ Sam Brooks takes us through the theatre he can’t wait to see at Wellington’s Fringe Festival and Auckland’s Pride! The Wellington Fringe Festival is a highlight of the theatrical year, as hundreds of theatre makers descend on the capital, with their shows filling everything from BATs to Circa […]
In 2009, a year before Humans of New York (HONY) exploded and made street photography the hottest thing out, Auckland-based artist Paul Stevens was attempting to photograph strangers on our streets. “I wasn’t internet-focussed (unlike HONY), I just wanted to capture a whole range of different people, but often they were rude or didn’t want […]
Set in the house of Mrs Wilberforce, a team of undercover wannabe criminals plan a convoluted bank heist from within her home. Mrs. Wilberforce is played by one of New Zealand’s most respected actresses, Annie Whittle (best known as Barb Heywood on Shortland Street). Supporting her are Carl Bland (Rude Awakenings), Andrew Grainger (The Dark […]
Lucinda Bennett Looks at the exhibitions taking the Auckland Art World by storm this month. Implicated and Immune Michael Lett Gallery (until 28 February) If you’re looking for big names, Michael Lett has them, but that’s not the only reason this will be one of the best exhibitions on offer this Pride. Implicated and Immune […]
Samuel Te Kani emerses himself in this superior French film. Folies Bergere plays out like a French film that knows it’s a French film, it’s most conspicuous departure from reflexive French-ness being the rural setting where stories of its ilk normally never breach the gilded pavements of a perennially 1920’s Paris (ironically the title references […]
Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies is back with three new groundbreaking series. Cucumber, Banana and Tofu will be broadcast in the UK starting Thursday 22 January on three different channels as an adult show, teen-focused standalone stories and a net based web series, respectively. Cucumber follows 46-year-old Henry and his long-term boyfriend Lance […]