Theatre

Jerome Cvitanovich returns with this series about pakeha whose work is largely associated with the maori language, education and customs. This week he talks to veteran actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand who… Audio

Dunedin actor Simon O’Connor has the role of a lifetime in his hands - he is Krapp in Samuel Beckett’s favourite play Krapp’s Last Tape. In it a man at the end of his life rekindles his remembered… Audio

The Wellingon theatre troup Everyone Cool Lives Here includes members with and without intellectually disabilities. RNZ features producer Mike Gourley checks out their new production No Post on Sunday… Video, Audio, Gallery

Award-winning Melbourne playwright and screenwriter, London-based Melissa Bubnic's latest script is a socio-political commentary on sexism and power in the world of high finance, inspired by a… Audio

When your former student starts writing plays for you, Art and Life collide. Michele Hine, Artistic Manager of the Actors Programme, stars in Sham, a blistering black comedy about family dysfunction… Audio

In theatre women are still underrepresented in every aspect – on stage, behind the scenes, directing and in management and governance roles. The Hui on Women in Theatre in September brings together… Audio

Auckland theatre group Bits and Pieces Ensemble discuss topics often seen as taboo, from menstruation to women’s perspective of sex, their bodies and childbirth. Audio

Kim Hill talks to neuroscientist Dr Stuart Firestein, Chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences, whose lab studies the vertebrate olfactory system, seeking answers to the… Audio

Australian actor and director, John Waters, talks to Wallace about his upcoming stage-show, Through a Glass Onion, a play set in the last moments of John Lennon's life. Audio

Australian cabaret singer Sheridan Harbridge brings a part of Paris to New Zealand with her show Songs for the Fallen which has been performed in festivals around the world. The show is inspired by… Audio

CEO of Q Theatre in Auckland, James Wilson, gives an insight into life behind the curtain running a theatre, and it’s not all razzle dazzle; and the Matchbox development programme fostering New… Audio

Norway based percussion soloist Jennifer Torrence works at the edge where theatre and music combine. She uses her body like an actor, sometimes armed with drumsticks.  Jennifer is in Wellington to… Video, Audio