Category: Review
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 […]
In the midst of the Pride Parade and Proud Party, a musical event fit for a Queen rocked Spark Arena. Auckland Pride’s condensed two week festival assured if you wanted to experience everything the festival had to offer you were going to be very busy. For me, Saturday night was the most packed of all, […]
Sam Brooks delivers a touching gay love story to fill your heart with Pride. It’s hard not to over-hype the work of multi-award winning playwright Sam Brooks. One of his previous works Wine Lips is the only play I have ever watched that felt so real, for a brief moment I actually forgot I was […]
It’s no Misery Business as Hayley and the gang return to NZ with an effervescent set. Spark Arena had been transformed into an intimate half-moon shape for the former-emo rockers return to NZ in four years. Paramore didn’t come empty handed bringing with them American support act The Bleachers, a band fronted by producer de jour Jack Antonoff […]
The 2018 Legacy Project features a great selection of young theatre artists, in the wonderful intimacy of the upper Q Theatre. It’s a beautiful youth voice; that gorgeous age between teenage angst and having it all together, when things are still swirly, raw and faced with trepidation. When youth have that sleek, gangling self-confidence – […]
express talked to hilarious cabaret star Jason Chasland last year on the eve of his one-man show Imposter, in its fifth international season, developed especially for Pride. Roll on to 2018, and we were amped to catch this rising star in his return to New Zealand with his latest show, Leather Lungs: Son of a […]
Oliver Hall visits Auckland’s Laneway Festival. It’s no wonder the Big Day Out’s resurrection crumbled quickly after the Laneway festival was formed. Sure the festivals catered to different tastes, but Laneway set the bar in what a festival could offer from a line up that presented female artists as something more than a token gesture, […]
The undertones of love and desire in Call Me By Your Name. Call Me By Your Name is one of those movies you won’t forget. Not only because it is a beautiful coming-of-age love story, with impeccable cinematography, but because the characters in this film will take you on a marvellous journey in search of idyllic […]