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Comedy, satire take centre stage
Actor Stephen Papps gets great joy from finding ironic moments and the comedy in his work.
Theatre
Birthday shows to help revive ailing Playhouse
Birthday shows to help revive ailing Playhouse
Cold and leaky, the 150-year-old Dunedin theatre is putting on milestone birthday shows in a bid to raise money for much-needed renovations.
Hearing, access upgrades at Regent
Hearing, access upgrades at Regent
For people with hearing difficulties, keeping up with all the action in a stage show can be frustrating.
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Fair Verona goes country
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Fair Verona goes country
Celebrating 65 years with its inaugural play, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet being re-staged, Dunedin’s Globe Theatre is paying tribute to its roots and its future, finds Rebecca Fox.
Grumpily wry role beautifully played
Grumpily wry role beautifully played
A full house at Te Whare o Rukutia was delighted last Friday by Roger Hall’s latest play End of Summertime.
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Mayor makes Bayfield production opening in vogue
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Mayor makes Bayfield production opening in vogue
The cast had a special guest to celebrate the opening night of Bayfield High School’s production of Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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Back where it all began
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Back where it all began
Peter Hayden has unfinished business with Roger Hall’s plays. So the Dunedin actor is staging End of Summertime in Dunedin, he tells Rebecca Fox.
Building may soon get new lease of life
Building may soon get new lease of life
Eight years after a professional theatre company closed and vacated a prominent Dunedin heritage building, the city council might put the property on the market.
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Is this a lightsaber which I see before me?
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Is this a lightsaber which I see before me?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, three Sith lords descend on Macbeth on a Dunedin Shakespeare festival’s main stage.
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Audience helps refine ‘slightly raw draft’
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Audience helps refine ‘slightly raw draft’
Playwright Carl Bland is putting his "words" where his mouth is by performing his own work in a theatrical reading of theatre company Nightsong’s latest work-in-development, Burning House.
Send-up of a favourite guilty pleasure
Send-up of a favourite guilty pleasure
CoroNew Athenaeum TheatreFriday, March 20
Rockumentary singalong packs theatre
Rockumentary singalong packs theatre
27 ClubRegent TheatreSaturday, March 21
Story from someone who’s been there
Story from someone who’s been there
After Elsa Couvreur made her video of The Sensemaker temporarily available online, a clip from the show started to turn up in some of the less savoury corners of the internet.
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Circus show inspired by ADHD diagnosis
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Circus show inspired by ADHD diagnosis
If it was not for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Nicole Maisey would not be an award-winning aerial acrobat, swinging from the roof by her hair.
Feeling ambition not met
Feeling ambition not met
Pas de TroisAllen Hall TheatreThursday, March 19Set in 1860s Paris, Pas de Trois depicts three ballerinas — Aurelie, Sylvie and Colette — at loggerheads over who will be selected as their...
Horror that’s all too familiar
Horror that’s all too familiar
CasketcaseGlobe TheatreWednesday, March 18The Globe Theatre was packed for Casketcase; A Podcast Style Horror, written, produced and directed by Chelsea McRae with Mario Sadra-De Jong ...
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Meeting of creative minds
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Meeting of creative minds
Finding herself a little bored with traditional theatre practice, Australian actress Megan Dury began searching for something else.
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Hope horror play will empower
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Hope horror play will empower
A Dunedin artist is taking her honours dissertation to the stage with a feminist horror play she hopes will empower people to speak up about violence and abuse towards women.
Surprising hilarity of volcanology, insects
Surprising hilarity of volcanology, insects
A good sized crowd at the New Athenaeum Theatre listened to softly spoken comedian Ben Miller with quiet amusement.
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Tabletop adventuring takes to the stage
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Tabletop adventuring takes to the stage
A group of Dunedin actors are taking their Dungeons & Dragons games to the next level with a series of live events financially backed by the city council.