Plays & Stories

Our Cultural Ambassador from the world of contemporary dance, director and choreographer Malia Johnston joins us once again. Tonight we catch her during the "pack-in" at the Repertory House in… Video, Audio

More than 20 hours of interviews recorded during and since the New Zealand-wide lockdown in March last year, have been distilled into a stage show called Transmission. The key figures for creators… Audio, Gallery

"I want to prove that people with Down syndrome can do anything." That's Lily Harper's mission. She's an award winning actor from Palmerston North who's starring in Up Down Girl, directed by Nathan… Audio, Gallery

Comedian Guy Williams is returning to our screens with the second season of his show 'NZ Today'! He's popping in to the Auckland studio to tell us what he's been up to and whether he has discoverd a… Audio

 In her new book, This Book Could Fix Your Life: The Science of Self Help, science journalist Helen Thomson debunks the fads and explores the real science of self-help to discover how we can… Audio

A new play will ask audiences to form a council and solve Auckland's urban development problems.  Audio

Artistic Director Juanita Hepi join us to talk about a new show Tumahana which tells the South Island's unique creation story combining Toi Maori, circus, theatre, Taonga Puoro, and the Christchurch… Audio

A fictional story of four real-life rainbow activists set in an afterlife - in 2079 to be exact - is the idea behind what's believed to be Aotearoa's first all Queer People Of Colour play. The… Audio, Gallery

British actor Juliet Stevenson narrates Blindness, a major international, socially-distanced theatre experience coming to the Auckland Writers Festival. Blindness is adapted from the novel of the same… Audio

Ending up in New Zealand when the lockdown hit, two members of a Uruguayan theatre company described their situation as "luckily stranded"! Now they're preparing to show Kiwis their physical theatre… Audio, Gallery

Shocking, lacerating and wicked - that's how the judges of this year's Adam New Zealand Play Award describe the winning script & Sons by Dunedin writer Emily Duncan. She also took out the award for… Audio

Filipino-Kiwi playwright Kiya Basabas hopes her upcoming show will encourage more from her community to write their stories for the stage. Audio, Gallery

It's been a long held dream - something like 20 years - for novellist Patricia Grace to see her novel Cousins on the big screen. But that dream is about to be realised. Audio, Gallery

The short but stellar career of the late comedian John Belushi is celebrated in a new documentary featuring previously unseen footage from those nearest and dearest to him. Born and raised in Chicago… Audio, Gallery

Stand up comedy is a scene that boasts that anyone is welcome, but that isn't always the case and people have to fight to get in. Frida DeGuise is Australia's only Muslim, hijab wearing comedian, as… Audio

Comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court are along with a few laughs. Audio

A hand-up for 12 live shows that otherwise would almost certainly have been abandoned because of the financial risk is what Auckland's Basement Theatre is can now offer through its new Co-Pro… Audio, Gallery

Sarah Griffiths has called the Jing'An District in Shanghai home for the past two years, having taken up her role with theatre company Punchdrunk International after lengthy stints with the Australia… Audio