Award-winning show coming
Award-winning show coming
A critically acclaimed and award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre show will be performed at Settler Theatre in Oamaru this week.
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Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage
Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage
Pupils from 11 Otago high schools yesterday took part in the Regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival at the King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre.
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Fruitful digressions
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Fruitful digressions
Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet Nathan Joe is looking forward to bringing his sell-out Dirty Passports show to Wānaka.
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Worlds apart but voices in unison
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Worlds apart but voices in unison
Like Batman and Robin, Abbott and Costello or Tom and Jerry, Alex Wright and Phil Grainger, of Orpheus and The Gods, The Gods, The Gods have always come as a duo — until now.
Spreading the Sexwise message through theatre
Spreading the Sexwise message through theatre
It's an out-of-the-box way to connect with teenagers about the sensitive topics of sex and relationships.
An immersive experience
An immersive experience
Company is a performance of a 1979 novella by Samuel Beckett and it is the first time a theatrical adaptation has ever made its way to New Zealand.
Never have white men been so lambasted
Never have white men been so lambasted
White MenAllen Hall TheatreWednesday, March 20 Blaming, patronising, and throwing a full-blown tantrum — the cast of White Men excel in all the worst ways.
‘Yellow Hut’ great start to the Globe’s year
‘Yellow Hut’ great start to the Globe’s year
The yellow hut looks like a typical tramping hut: minimally furnished, with bunks, a table, various bits and pieces and some leafy debris.
Women play men in caricature of toxic masculinity
Women play men in caricature of toxic masculinity
Five Dunedin women are tackling toxic masculinity by stepping into the shoes of white men.
Ambitious mix of science, theatre
Ambitious mix of science, theatre
Butterfly Flutters/January BurnsAllen Hall TheatreTuesday, March 19 Butterfly Flutters/January Burns aims to meld science with physical theatre.
Prehistoric production a night of ridiculous fun
Prehistoric production a night of ridiculous fun
Firebringer, Musical Theatre Dunedin, Saturday March 16.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ not all gloom for travelling troupe
‘Romeo and Juliet’ not all gloom for travelling troupe
A travelling troupe of troubadours are putting a fresh twist on a tragic tale.
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Humour appears in oblivion
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Humour appears in oblivion
Emma Lange nearly lost everything to brain cancer but in the recovery process discovered she still had her creativity and sense of humour. Rebecca Fox talks to Lange about her upcoming...
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Pair ‘couldn’t pass it up’
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Pair ‘couldn’t pass it up’
There could be nothing more suited to the Dunedin Fringe Festival — a play written by a local, performed by locals and watched by locals.
Therapeutic musical comedy takes on ‘heavy’ themes
Therapeutic musical comedy takes on ‘heavy’ themes
A Dunedin artist is inviting the public to her own private therapy session — and hopes they will have a few laughs along the way.
Group needs new clowns
Group needs new clowns
Would you like to spend your weekends dressed up as a clown? A group of singing comedians want to hear from you.
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Connecting generations
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Connecting generations
It all began with simple curiosity about her family history for Nadia Freeman.
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The immigrant experience, writ large
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The immigrant experience, writ large
Romina Meneses has first-hand experience of being a new country where she does not speak the language.
Broadway comes to town
Broadway comes to town
Some of the world’s favourite show tunes will ring out in Oamaru’s Opera House this weekend.
Providing a theatrical leg-up
Providing a theatrical leg-up
A pair of Dunedin performers have created their own amateur theatre based on the principle that anyone should get a chance.