Category: Events

Express talks to 2015 Auckland Pride Parade Director Richard Taki (aka Bumpa) to find out more about the 2015 Pride Parade. How many entries were there last year? If we include our wonderful volunteers who gathered everyone up at the end then 47! Are you expecting an increase this year? We are expecting an increase […]

As gorgeous and tall as he is talented, director Oliver Driver hopes his new musical will make us all drop to our knees and worship HIM. The only production of Jesus Christ Superstar  I have seen was a high-pitched, prudish interpretation put on by an all boys Catholic school. At intermission, I walked out, declaring […]

GLBTI athletes and culture lovers will be heading to Wellington in late January next year for the Rainbow Sport and Culture Weekend. One of the co-ordinators, Martin Kaulback, says the aim of the gathering (Friday 23 to Sunday 25 January 2015) is for an informal and friendly GLBTI weekend of fun and competition. “We want […]

2015’s exciting commercial line-up of classical music looks set to be the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra’s biggest selling season ever. From Holst’s The Planets which will launch the season on Thursday 19 February, to Elgar’s Enigma Variations on Thursday 18 June and Film Classics on Thursday 22 October, which will feature Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Tchaikovsky’s […]

POP Singing Patty Boy has just announced the release of his new EP. Titled, ‘Introspective Illusions’, it will be released exclusively on iTunes on October 1st, 2014. Introspective Illusions will be PattyBoy’s first official release with Eleanor Records, this follows a long list of very popular releases from him as an independent artist. The list […]

Mozart’s Don Giovanni opened in Auckland on 18 September, again to a full house. Sung in Italian, this is the story of legendary lethario Don Juan who sports over 1000 conquests in Spain alone! First performed in Prague in 1787, the setting is completely updated with run down Havana type props and nightclub! You are […]

S.A.L.I.G.I.A., Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia is the third install from from the Orthodox Calendar series (#OC2015).”S.A.L.I.G.I.A.” pays tribute to social tolerance. The story takes place on the right bank of the Moskva River south of Moscow, where some priests believe that same-sex unions are NOT a sign of the coming apocalypse, contrary to what […]

Among its gritty urban settings, a nightclub pole dancer, a blow-up doll served with cornflakes, and a rather hot ending (!), NZ Opera’s latest action-packed production, Don Giovanni leads to one conclusion: the world’s greatest lover is gay. English leading man Mark Stone is a trim, fit figure as Don Giovanni, but his character fails […]