Theatre

RAD Talks is the Barbarian Productions contribution to this year's LitCrawl Festival in Wellington. Director Jo Randerson talks about the idea behind it. Audio

The 2016 Auckland Arts Festival programme is out now. Artistic director Carla van Zon previews some of the highlights from next year's lineup. Audio

Tutus add to the spectacle of classical ballet and are equally as important as the set design. This August, the New Zealand School of Dance launched an appeal to raise $9,000.00 towards the… Audio, Gallery

The Arts Foundation announced this year's group of Laureate Award winners at last night's ceremony at Auckland's Mercury Theatre. Director Sara Brodie is among the recipients, and she tells Clarissa… Audio

Director Nina Nawalowalo has been busy recently. At this year's Christchurch Festival she directed two shows: 'Duck, Death and the Tulip', and 'The White Guitar'. Upbeat roving correspondent Vincent… Audio

Ralph McCubbin Howell and Hannah Smith are travelling the country with three shows, have just opened a play challenging ANZAC mythology, and are working on another production that will premiere at… Audio

Forty years after he first started packing out New Zealand with his plays, Roger Hall has received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement and he's the first playwright to do so. Roger's… Audio

Maggie Roswell is best known for being the voices on The Simpsons of Helen Lovejoy, Maude Flanders, Milhouse's mother Luann, and Lisa's teacher Miss Hoover. She also memorably portrayed Mary Poppins… Audio

Wellington's Stagecraft Theatre are mounting a production of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'. Eva speaks to director Josh Hopton-Stewart and actor Rebecca Gumbley about the play, its historical… Audio

Erin Harrington reviews Neil Armfield and Academy Award winning actor Geoffrey Rush adaptation of Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco at Christchurch's The Court Theatre. Audio

Drew James is the Senior Producer for the Performing Arts Network of New Zealand's touring agency. He talks about their first year of operation. Audio

Prayas Theatre company are bringing over 25 cast members - including a former Shortland Street star - to the stage in a dynamic take on the acclaimed best-selling novel A Fine Balance by Rohinton… Audio, Gallery

'Gifted' written by: Patrick Evans, based on the novel of the same name. Audio

Ionesco's 1962 absurdist comedy 'Exit the King' opens in Christchurch's Court Theatre this week. Eva talks to director Ross Gumbley. Audio

Jan Preston has developed her autobiographical theatre piece 'Adventures in Pianoland' along with her sister, Gaylene, who directs it. Audio

Hannah Stappard (formerly Hannah Tatana) talks about her life on-stage during the 1965 New Zealand Opera Performance of Porgy and Bess. Audio