Theatre

Australian choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell has a huge body of work in film and theatre, including the 1992 break-through hit Strictly Ballroom; Moulin Rouge, Shall We Dance? and The Great… Audio

Playwright previews the Basement Theatre season of his Hauraki Horror. Audio

The annual Auckland Theatre Awards were founded five years ago to celebrate the performing arts in the country's biggest city. But this year there's a difference - for the first time, there will be… Audio

The winner of the 2014 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, $10,000 prize, is Ralph McCubbin-Howell, one of the founders of playful Wellington theatre company Trick of the Light. Audio

'At the Wake' is a new black comedy by Victor Rodger, with Taofia Pelesasa playing the playwright himself. Audio

He gets strange looks when he hands over his passport with Clown as his profession, but Thomas LaHood is taking the performance art in new directions. Thomas and his wife Jo Randerson have created a… Audio

It is a Wellington theatrical institution, carving out the early careers of many successful New Zealand actors, including Cliff Curtis and Kerry Fox. Audio

Upbeat Melbourne correspondent visits Christchurch for the reopening of the Isaac Theatre Royal and speaks to the major players and punters. Audio

Key moments in our history: a selection of Murray's reviews, eyewitness accounts, interviews and letters reflecting on New Zealand poetry and drama from the 1970s onwards. Then It Was Now Again is the… Audio

BATS has been the home of much of the most exciting theatre seen in Wellington for almost quarter of a century. It closed the doors on its Kent Terrace building almost two years ago for a… Audio

Film-maker Toa Fraser is returning to the theatre, 16 years after his the breakout season of his play 'Bare'. He tells Eva about what connects 'Bare' with his newest offering: 'Pure and Deep'. Audio

Writer and actor preview 'Famous Flora' play about 1940's Auckland brothel Madame. Audio

Alison Quigan, the former Artistic Director of Palmerston North's Centrepoint Theatre reflects on the theatre's 40th, which has been marked with the launch of a book about its history written by Peter… Audio

Circa Theatre's production of 'Isaac's Eye' by Lucas Hnath. Audio

Rodger writes abrasive plays that have changed the face of Pasifika Theatre. Audio

Adura Onashile is the co-creator and performer of HeLa, a solo show about the woman whose cancer cell sample, taken without her permission, was used as the raw material for some of the most important… Audio

Homer's Odyssey without words - with The Paper Cinema's artistic director and puppeteer Nicholas Rawling. Audio

UK based puppeteers for Paper Cinema's production of The Odyssey at Arts Festival Dunedin. Audio

Renee Lyons talks to Walllace about her one-woman show based on the story of Dunedin man Nick Chisholm who, at the age of 27, had a rugby accident, suffered a stroke and was left with a medical… Audio

Sisters in Arms tells the stories of Sofija Jovanovic, who posed as a man to join the Serbian army and fight in the First World War, and Dr Jessie Scott, among New Zealand's first women surgeons, who… Audio