Category: People

When kiwi Olympian Robbie Manson wrote an essay for Outsports about his coming out experience he was shocked to find it made headlines the world over. He talks exclusively to Oliver Hall about coming out to his teammates, family, and future dreams. At 25, Robbie Manson is shaping up to be one of the best […]

Belinda Dunne has been promoting ‘fight nights’ for almost 15 years! This Saturday (29 November) she is staging NZ’s second-ever mixed martial arts (MMA) night with an all-female match line up; known as Princesses of Pain! Oliver Hall caught up with Dunne to find out more. What inspired you to start Princesses of Pain? I […]

You new book is titled Public Sex in Paekakariki. Why this title? Because sex is so public! People dancing/kissing say it, pregnant woman say it. In magazines, beautiful bodies invite thoughts of sex, and tv and film – crammed with it. But also because I wrote a play, Public Sex, which we put on in […]

New Orleans folk-blues and Americana band, Hurray for the Riff Raff, will make their NZ debut at The Great South Pacific Tuning Fork on Friday 21 November. Hurray for the Riff Raff are one of the most exciting bands on the US Americana scene, with the Americana Association having nominated them as an Emerging Artist […]

Hot young playwright Sam Brooks profiles the hot young actor/comedian Chris Parker – a star of TV, Web and Stage that many are touting as the next big thing. It’s only a mild understatement to say that Chris Parker has taken the Auckland theatre scene by storm in the last year. From starring in the […]

Thomas Bradley (bottom) and Bernhard Knauer (top) are two of the gorgeous dancers from Sydney Dance Company who return to NZ this month, for the first time in a decade. Their new show 2 One Another is described as ‘an exultant and sensual study human interaction and relationships’ – choreographed by the equally gorgeous Rafael […]

Writing for outsports.com, New Zealand Olympic rower Robbie Manson has come out as gay.  Manson writes that he decided to come out to his team mates just prior to the 2012 Olympics and now was the time to come out publicly. ‘I have learned so much about myself and what it means to be gay over the […]

Isobel is the sizzling hot star of SEP ARATE is a dance theatre show put together by the combined queer powers of Val Smith and Lydia Zanetti.   Featuring a plethora of Auckland talent, SEP ARATE teases out the conversation around gender and sexuality through a queer gaze. In turn hilarious, challenging and charming, this is […]