Category: Events
Katy Perry is back in NZ for two nights with her Witness Tour, a show that promises to be a spectacle! There is a giant eye-shaped LED screen that stares back at the audience as it illuminates her stage, a curvy runway that penetrates deep into the standing crowd, numerous elevating stages from a mini […]
Celine comes to our shores in just one week! There are singers, and then there are SINGERS. Celine Dion is the latter. A powerhouse vocalist who’s been making music for three decades and is one of the bestselling artists of all time. In terms of consistent live vocal performances and a voice that has never […]
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The New Zealand International Film Festival kicks off in Auckland on Thursday 19 July and on Friday 27 July in Wellington. Here are express’ top LGBTI picks for the festival. A Kid Like Jake Based Daniel Pearle’s play, helmed by trans director Silas Howard (Transparent) and staring Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons and Homeland’s Claire […]
A children’s charity in Christchurch has unknowingly been linked to an upcoming charity strip show put on by the city’s newly formed gay rugby team. Advertising for the August event shows a line-up of Christchurch Heroes rugby team players in the nude with the banner “Show us your Hero” across their privates. The team had […]
To celebrate the 125th Anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, The Royal New Zealand Ballet is presenting their new production Strength and Grace featuring work from four female choreographers, this August. The choreographers commissioned for Strength and Grace are Sarah Foster-Sproull from New Zealand, Danielle Rowe from Australia, Penny Saunders from the United States […]
Oliver Hall sits down with George Solomon, one of the co-creators and cast members of Oh What A Night! A Musical Tribute To Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Tell us a bit about your background before joining Oh What a Night? I’ve been working professionally in show business since my early teens. I have […]
A new weekend-long Auckland festival will celebrate and support LGBTQI+ Maori. Ahurei Matariki Takatapui is a weekend of events designed specifically by and for LGBTQI+ Mãori, their whãnau, and allies— with Takatãpui being a reclaimed term to embrace all Mãori who identify with diverse sexes, genders and sexualities. Running from July 19-21 with a weekend […]