Theatre

One of Shakespeare's most famous plays is being given a make-over. Regan Taylor, the co-director of Te Rehia Theatre Company uses specially carved 'Maori performance masks' to re-work the Elizabethan… Audio

Upbeat Australian correspondent Vincent O'Donnell is on this side of the Tasman at the moment, visiting the Christchurch Arts Festival. He talks about some of the Festival highlights. Audio

The Christchurch Arts Festival and Free Theatre present The Mauricio Kagel Project this week, exploring the work and ideas of the Argentinian composer. Conductor Hamish McKeich and composer-pianist… Audio

A new play called The Black opens this week at Auckland's Basement Theatre. It's playwright Josephine Stewart Tewhiu's take on depression and uses acting, animation and live illustration to tell the… Video, Audio

A play inspired by the crowning of Moana Whaanga as the first Maori Miss New Zealand back in 1962 is among the new work that's part of a festival that's been revived after a 25-year hiatus. Auckland's… Audio

Playwright David Greig was born in Scotland but grew up in Nigeria. His award winning play The Events - opened at Auckland's Silo Theatre this week. The play features a different Auckland choir each… Audio

In this week's episode: Eva speaks to Australian conductor Simone Young about her passion for Bruckner Symphonies, before speaking to director Amanda Rees and her sister, actor Donogh Rees about their… Audio

Playwright talks about his new work All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever. Audio

The Travelling Squirrel is a play written by NZ playwright, the late Robert Lord, who's best known for his works Joyful and Triumphant and Well Hung. But this play, which he wrote while living in New… Audio

Katherine Hebley talks about a play called The Toys In Chouchou's Corner on at the Storylines Festival in Auckland. Set to the music of Debussy's Children's Corner Suite the production features a… Audio

Hamilton theatre manager Jeremy Bell directs a visionary play from the 1920's: Rossum's Universal Robots, the play that brought the word 'robot' into the language and almost invented the genre of… Audio

In 1865 during the heady gold rush years the wild west township of Dunedin officially became a city. This year, the Edinburgh of the South celebrates 150 years since the event. Many of the city's… Audio

Once a hot bed of creativity, the port town of Lyttelton has been making do, ever since the Christchurch earthquakes destroyed most of its theatres and live venues. Audio

NZ actor starring in the Court Theatre production of The Ladykillers. Audio

Frankenstein fans are in for a double treat next month. New Zealand gets its premiere of a London National Theatre production of the horror story, and a film starring James MacAvoy is coming out… Audio

From fashion to costume design; filmmaking, art installation, music videos, and more. The Design for Stage and Screen course at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School is now in its tenth year and producing an… Audio, Gallery

South Island theatre director of a new production of Once on Chunuk Bair by Maurice Shadbolt, which is being staged at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch, to coincide with the 100-year anniversary… Audio

New Long Cloud Youth Theatre Artistic Director Brett Adam was previously the Head of Directing at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, and prior moving to Aotearoa he was a Director for Melbourne Theatre… Audio

Actor, and director of Mt Zion Tearepa Kahi, is about to stage William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in te reo, to mark Matariki. He joins Wallace to talk about the challenges of translating the… Audio

Director of Basement Theatre's The Mourning After produced by Prayas Theatre Company. Audio