Theatre
Scotty Cotter on moving deliberately
Scotty Cotter is one of the busiest theatre directors in the country at the moment with two premieres opening in the next month. Neke is being performed on stage, while MAURI TAU is going to be an… Audio
Werewolves of Wellington
As part of Wellington's midwinter Loemis Festival, we talk to Joel Baxendale, the creator of a new immersive theatre experience. Werewolf feels almost like a game by daylight - but takes on a whole… Audio
Cian Parker's new play inspired by real-life tragedy
The explosion of grief that followed the death of her husband, is channelled into Cian Parker's new play, All I See. It's going to premiere at the 2021 Kia Mau Festival at Wellington's Circa Theatre… Audio
Cian Parker's new play inspired by real-life tragedy
The explosion of grief that followed the death of her husband, is channelled into Cian Parker's new play, All I See. It's going to premiere at the 2021 Kia Mau Festival at Wellington's Circa Theatre… Audio
Circa Theatre at 45
Circa Theatre in Wellington turns 45 this year - we're joined in the studio by Writer and Actor Gavin Rutherford, Director Susan Wilson and Circa co-founder Carolyn Henwood to look back - and to look… Audio
Tainui Tukiwaho - Racists Anonymous
"Racists Anonymous: the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop being racist." Tainui Tukiwaho is the director of Racists Anonymous, a new show at Auckland's Te Pou Theatre, Aotearoa's… Audio
A Boy called Piano
A stage play about the abuse of a boy in state care and the lifelong emotional damage that came from that traumatic time, is about to be broadcast as a radio drama. The bold move is partly due to… Audio, Gallery
Cultural Ambassador - Dance
Our Cultural Ambassador from the world of contemporary dance, director and choreographer Malia Johnston joins us once again. Tonight we catch her during the "pack-in" at the Repertory House in… Video, Audio
Transmission
More than 20 hours of interviews recorded during and since the New Zealand-wide lockdown in March last year, have been distilled into a stage show called Transmission. The key figures for creators… Audio, Gallery
A girl called Lily
"I want to prove that people with Down syndrome can do anything." That's Lily Harper's mission. She's an award winning actor from Palmerston North who's starring in Up Down Girl, directed by Nathan… Audio, Gallery
Solving Auckland's infrastructure issues through theatre
A new play will ask audiences to form a council and solve Auckland's urban development problems. Audio
Exploring the Creation Story from a South Island Perspective
Artistic Director Juanita Hepi join us to talk about a new show Tumahana which tells the South Island's unique creation story combining Toi Maori, circus, theatre, Taonga Puoro, and the Christchurch… Audio
Four famous legends in a future afterlife
A fictional story of four real-life rainbow activists set in an afterlife - in 2079 to be exact - is the idea behind what's believed to be Aotearoa's first all Queer People Of Colour play. The… Audio, Gallery
Actor Juliet Stevenson: Pandemic theatre
British actor Juliet Stevenson narrates Blindness, a major international, socially-distanced theatre experience coming to the Auckland Writers Festival. Blindness is adapted from the novel of the same… Audio
Animalismo Teatro - from Uruguay with love
Ending up in New Zealand when the lockdown hit, two members of a Uruguayan theatre company described their situation as "luckily stranded"! Now they're preparing to show Kiwis their physical theatre… Audio, Gallery
Prize-winning Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan
Shocking, lacerating and wicked - that's how the judges of this year's Adam New Zealand Play Award describe the winning script & Sons by Dunedin writer Emily Duncan. She also took out the award for… Audio
A new play explores the Kiwi-Filipino experience
Filipino-Kiwi playwright Kiya Basabas hopes her upcoming show will encourage more from her community to write their stories for the stage. Audio, Gallery
Patricia Grace's classic Cousins is now a movie
It's been a long held dream - something like 20 years - for novellist Patricia Grace to see her novel Cousins on the big screen. But that dream is about to be realised. Audio, Gallery
The first fruits of the Basement Theatre Co-Pro initiative
A hand-up for 12 live shows that otherwise would almost certainly have been abandoned because of the financial risk is what Auckland's Basement Theatre is can now offer through its new Co-Pro… Audio, Gallery
Calling Home: Sarah Griffiths in Shanghai
Sarah Griffiths has called the Jing'An District in Shanghai home for the past two years, having taken up her role with theatre company Punchdrunk International after lengthy stints with the Australia… Audio