Hotel room acts as stage for clever, introspective production
REVIEW: Jean Cocteau’s carefully spun drama evolves via a one-sided-conversation.
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'Peaky Blinders' actress Helen McCrory dies at 52
'Peaky Blinders' actress Helen McCrory dies at 52
Helen McCrory, the British actress known for playing steely female characters on stage and screen, has died of cancer at 52.
Frame’s work leaps to new heights of creativity on stage
Frame’s work leaps to new heights of creativity on stage
REVIEW: Janet Frame and Red Leap Theatre are a match made in arts heaven.
Where the place? Upon the stage
Where the place? Upon the stage
Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand Otago regional representative Debbie Vercoe said about 100 pupils from seven Otago secondary schools took part in the University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival.
Where the place? Upon the stage
Where the place? Upon the stage
Actors (from left) Laura Cowles, Sersha Forde and Ruby Hart (all 16), all from Logan Park High School, inhabit the three witches in Macbeth during the University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare...
Music with funk and much feeling
Music with funk and much feeling
REVIEW: Carnivorous Plant Society are billed as playing psychedelic jazz, but that doesn’t cover quite what they do, while Silver Stone Wood Bone offered a beautiful way to start the day, writes Nigel Zega.
Have dog, will travel a basis for play
Have dog, will travel a basis for play
When the "Kerikeri old girls network" hooked Barnaby Olson up with a job in Turkey, little did he know it would provide him with a perfect traveller’s tale.
Up close and personal
Up close and personal
The chance to work on an opera she loves was enough to send Fiona McAndrew back to bed, reports Rebecca Fox.
Baxter’s Cardrona poem reimagined
Baxter’s Cardrona poem reimagined
REVIEW: Nigel Zega enjoys a diverse day at the Festival of Colour in Wanaka.
Playhouse upgrade probably too much for Repertory
Playhouse upgrade probably too much for Repertory
The cost of upgrading the Playhouse Theatre is likely to be beyond the means of the Dunedin Repertory Society, its president Jemma Adams says.
Confronting Samoan identity
Confronting Samoan identity
REVIEW: Fierce, colourful, loud and explosive, Wild Dogs under My Skirt mercilessly attacks the “Pacific princess’’ image.
Touring ‘Owls Do Cry’ show ‘poetic, engaging’ theatre
Touring ‘Owls Do Cry’ show ‘poetic, engaging’ theatre
More than a year after it was created in the South, the theatre show Owls Do Cry is on tour again, this time including a performance in the city.
Audience as entertaining as performers in production for babies
Audience as entertaining as performers in production for babies
REVIEW: It would be wonderful to see more special, sensitive productions like Up & Away, writes Barbara Frame.
Exploration of Chinese identity and experience
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Exploration of Chinese identity and experience
A documentary theatre project coming to Dunedin will bring into focus the many forms of cultural misrepresentation, discrimination and invisibility that exists around Chinese identity.
A burning desire to perform
A burning desire to perform
Performer Lizzie Tollemache stumbled into circus performing and became addicted to fire-eating.
Play inspired by sacred harp
Play inspired by sacred harp
Music is known for assisting people with dementia, so for playwright Ro Bright and director Kitan Petkovski bringing the two together in their latest work to premiere in Wanaka was a given.
Welcome return to Dunedin for award-winning show
Welcome return to Dunedin for award-winning show
"An unapologetic, sometimes humorous, sometimes confronting feast for the eyes, ears and soul."
Lies and ill will
Lies and ill will
A new play to debut at the Dunedin Arts Festival is not about telling the truth, but might have truths to tell, writes Tom McKinlay.
Dispatches from the fringes
Dispatches from the fringes
Someone made a week for me last week. Well, it was more like some LOTS - the organisers, volunteers, actors, directors, costumers... everyone who came together to make Dunedin Fringe Festival, writes Liz Breslin.
Review: Feelings and felting entertain audience
Feelings and felting entertain audience
The stage is brightly lit and there’s a table with many brightly-coloured tufts of some kind of yarn or fibre.