Theatre

Arts Festival Dunedin Director Nicholas McBryde gives Wallace Chapman the rundown of what's on. Audio

Arts Festival Dunedin is back with a new name and a fresh focus. Director Nicholas McBryde talks about the festival's changes and upcoming events. Audio

Sisters in Arms tells the story of two women during WW1, New Zealand surgeon Jessica Scott and Serbian Sergeant Sofia Jovanovic, played by Jessica Latton and Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic. Audio

Human Fruit Bowl tells the true story of Rene Moncharty, muse of French Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. American actor Harmony Stempel, who has real life-modelling experience, plays Rene… Audio

Performer and co-writer of 'Everything is Surrounded By Water', which was originally performed in living rooms during the New Zealand Fringe 2014, and won the Best Solo award. Audio

Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie's latest opera 'This Other Eden' is based on Michelanne Foster's play of the same name, and centres on early New Zealand missionary Thomas Kendall and his interactions… Audio

Young Auckland playwright Daya Czepanski is just 18 and already she's seeing her first play performed on stage, The Cohort Hotel. Several established theatre practitioners believe she's got real… Audio

Scottish actor (Top of the Lake, My Name is Joe) and director (The Magdalene Sisters, Neds), who is visiting New Zealand for the Big Screen Symposium. Audio

The stage musical of 'The Lion King' has just been named the highest-grossing production of all time. It's taken more dollars at the box office than any other stage show, or cinema release. Audio

Should a review of the Toi Whakaari-Victoria University directing course cause concerns for the future - we hear from Christian Penny, Director of Toi Whakaari. Audio

Wild Bees Director and writer of Wild Bees which premiere's at Auckland's Basement Theatre tomorrow. Audio

Founder and director of theatre company Little Dog Barking, whose production of Duck, Death and the Tulip, won an Outstanding Theatre award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Audio

New Zealand playwright who has been living in New York as the third recipient of the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency and is back here for the Auckland Theatre Company's world premiere… Audio

Including Bruce Mason on maori playwriting, Mercury Theatre, 'Mr King Hong'i, Catherine Styles-McLeod, Maori stereotyping, The Depot, 'Michael James Manaia', Taki Rua, 'Waiora', Briar Grace Smith… Audio

South African artist acclaimed worldwide for his combinations of cinema, theatre, drawing, sculpture and music. Audio

Including 'Mothers and Fathers', Joe Musaphia, Creation of Circa Theatre, Roger Hall, 'Glide Time', 'Middle Age Spread', Greg McGee, 'Foreskin's Lament', Anthony McCarten, 'Ladies Night' with Joe… Audio

Including Mervyn Thompson, 'First Return', 'Oh Temperance!' Robert Lord,' It Isn't Cricket', Downstage Theatre, Playmarket - it's creation, Nola Millar, first NZ Drama School, Theatre Corporate with… Audio

Including New Zealand Opera Company's 'Porgy and Bess', Inia Te Wiata, Maori Theatre Trust, formation of regional theatres - Four Seasons in Wanganui, Gateway in Tauranga, Court in Christchurch… Audio

Including Radio drama, formation of Downstage Theatre, Pat Evison in 'Happy Days' at Downstage, formation Central Theatre in Auckland, formation of Mercury Theatre in Auckland with Pat Evison, Davina… Audio

Including NZ Players Drama Quartet, Southern Comedy Players, Bruce Mason, 'The Pohutakawa Tree', 'The End of the Golden Weather', James K Baxter, 'Jack Winter's Dream', Globe Theatre in Dunedin with… Audio