Category: Events

Aussie duo The Naked Magicians are set to return to Auckland, promising the world’s naughtiest and funniest magic show. Fresh from packing out theatres around the world, the sexy pair will take the stage at Auckland Town Hall’s Comedy Chamber from 1 – 5 May as part of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Starring […]

  Oliver Hall runs through upcoming events and shows not already highlighted in express for this month. The Grammy Guys Ed Sheeran returns to Auckland for two dates (Mt Smart, 24 and 25 March) and Dunedin for three (Forsyth Barr, 29 March – 1 April) with his Divide world tour. It’s his third time back in NZ in […]

20,000 people poured into Western Springs on Saturday 3 March for the second iteration of Auckland City Limits. Rapper JessB and her hype girl Half.Queen, backed by producer P Money on the decks, took to the stage early in the day and while much of the punters hadn’t arrived yet, they lay it down like […]

Ballet teacher and former assistant to Candy Lane, Georgette Jackson, is wowed by the English National Ballet’s edgy new interpretation of a beloved classic. I was rather sour and disappointed, almost unimpressed when I heard that Giselle had been re-invented for our modern-day era. But as time went by, and more snippets were teased by […]

Legacy Project – now in its fifth year – is a theatre development programme created by producer Bruce Brown to support emerging theatre creators within our LGBT+ and queer community. David Butler and Ciarin Smith talk through their play Three and the complexities of polyamory. David’s take on Three: Three is a very personal story to us, […]

express talks with Mike Hadreas – the Seattle-based solo artist known as Perfume Genius – is a breath of fresh air. His deeply personal music is unapologetically queer and he’s never held back – the video for his early single Hood, features well known gay porn star Arpad Miklos sensually covering him in makeup. He […]

express talked to members of Wellington’s GAG Collective. Traditionally, drag has valued a performer’s ability to “pass” as either male or female and has focused on binary understandings of gender, reinforcing these social constructs rather than subverting them. It is a dynamic that some performers have been tirelessly challenging for years but only recently has […]

Oliver Hall runs through upcoming events and shows not already highlighted in express for this month. Always Loving Whitney Forget what you think you know about tribute acts! UK audiences recently voted Belinda Davids, star of The Greatest Love of All – The Whitney Houston Show (Bruce Mason Centre – 10 Feb) ‘Better Than the Real Thing’. […]