Category: Review
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 […]
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 […]
Antoin’e Ogilvie reviews former One Direction star Niall Horan’s show at Auckland’s Spark Arena It seems like only yesterday that One Direction were making headlines, topping charts, centrefold in any relevant magazine and carving a return for the boyband niche. Almost a decade later, the heart-throbs have since split, each on a different musical tangent; […]
Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crow drew an adoring capacity crown to Auckland’s Trust Arena An 80% female crowd gathered for a night of rock royalty as Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge delivered the hit filled sets that Etheridge had promised express they would. The delightful Crow kicked off the night warming up the crowd with […]
The Vanishing Act by Jen Shieff The author Jen Shieff, is gay and lives in Turangi with her partner. She is a former English teacher, AUT lecturer, Govt analyst and owner of a fly-fishing lodge. Jen is now a full-time crime writer. In her second book The Vanishing Act she writes a spicy tale of intrigue […]
This is a tale of a young gay Scottish man who moves to countries unspecified in Asia and finds he is being persecuted, he claims, because of a Facebook message he uttered about a leader “He is an elected dictator”. The primary problem with this book, which is presumably published by the author himself, is […]
Sarah Murphy attends the AAF concert on 15 March of Jazz Sensation Cécile McLorin Salvant. Cécile McLorin Salvant specialises in forgotten numbers, far from the standards we all know and listen to on repeat. It made for an evening of surprises, jumping between genres, showing the incredible range of her voice. I couldn’t help but feel […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s original adaptation of iconic New Zealand movie, The Piano, leaves Georgette Jackson struggling to admire the new work. My love affair with the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) began as a young dancer. I attended their workshops at the Wellington School of Dance, and as an adult I have undeniable […]