Category: Events
Few others could rival the 6 April opening night in Auckland of the three year old African Film Festival. In the roomy foyer of the Newmarket Rialto, hand drums beat irresistibly while high pings of the Nigerian m’bira (thumb organ) fluttered and resonant bass notes boomed happily from a shakr’a (gourd bass). Weaving through all […]
We chat with Eli Matthewson, the little gay rock star of New Zealand comedy, ahead of his show in the 2017 New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Firstly, how did you come up with that magnificent title, The Year of Magical Fucking? I read a bunch of stupid articles about how millennials are having less sex […]
The celebration of Richard O’Brien’s 75th birthday, 75 Years of Frock N Roll, raising thousands of dollars for Starship Hospital, was a glam spectacular worthy of the man who revolutionised musicals with his Rocky Horror Show, which still packs out theatres worldwide more than 40 years after it was first penned! The audience dazzled in sequins, feathers […]
She’s one of the best ballet dancers in the world. So is he. Together, they are a Russian power couple – both having met while dancing Giselle and her probably being the one to have been able to bring him back into the folds of the Royal Ballet. He’s the bad boy, she’s the poster […]
There’s no question that Adele’s New Zealand debut was a special event. It’s not every day that more than 45,000 Kiwis rush to Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on a Thursday night. But then again, last night was anything but ordinary, as multi-Grammy-award winner Adele made sure that we were treated to a show that, while staged in […]
Wellington Pride threw their first youth ball on March 18, which saw around 200 youths attend, ready to dance their rainbow socks off! Youth leader, Bella Simpson, organised the event and said people had come from as far as Otaki and the Wairarapa to attend the event. The theme of the ball was ‘Fantasy Forest’ […]
One can’t help but envy Richard O’Brien, a man that not only lived through London’s gritty glory days of the ’60s and ’70s, but in part, created them with his explosive, addictive stage production, musical, and then movie, the iconic cult classic, The Rocky Horror Show. It evokes a time of black and white nostalgia, […]
Prudes and people with weak constitutions should not come to this. Though, let’s be honest, the fact that all the publicity material comments on how it’s “delicious, deviant and delirious” should be enough to deter those who prefer their acts tame and fully-clothed. La Soirée is a variety circus-burlesque-cabaret show, which basically means you take […]