Plays & Stories

Anya Tate-Manning is taking her award winning one woman show to Escape! at the Tauranga Arts Festival. She's here to tell us all about it. Audio

Auckland-based best friends and actors Saraid Cameron and Amelia Reynolds have devised, written and are about to perform a work called Cult Show: The Revitalisation of the New Zealand Women's… Audio

With te Radar and Pinky Agnew. Audio

Could Yorkshire puddings with jam become the latest craze ? Not if the Brits have anything to do with it. Also the journalists, political advisors and lobbyists who ended up stuck in a Beehive lift. Audio

The problem with Apu in The Simpsons –  which comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary about –  is not that a caricature of an Indian immigrant voiced by a white actor is offensive, he says. Video, Audio

The Australian comic duo The Umbilical Brothers met in miming class but found they preferred making noise. Audio

It’s been 45 years since the Rocky Horror Show opened in London – and creator Richard O’Brien is amazed the “bit of fun in the theatre” keeps selling out. Audio

Stalin, Pol Pot and Donald Trump are the inspiration behind Problems, a high energy, high anxiety Kiwi comedy. Written by Joe Musaphia and directed by Gavin Rutherford Problems opens this week at… Audio

Composer Dame Gillian Whitehead has been honoured with an Icon award; the world premiere of a new Kiwi comedy is happening in Wellington and we continue our series on the Cleveland Orchestra at 100.

A world premiere, a national tour of another show, and shooting starting on a film version of acclaimed play Krishnan's Dairy - it's a massive year for one of the country's most successful theatre… Audio, Gallery

It's not just been a bad week for theatre companies in New Zealand this week: on Monday Stuff formerly Fairfax newspapers went tabloid across nine newspapers, including The Press, Waikato Times… Audio

Outrage and tears followed news of the sudden closure of Dunedin's Fortune Theatre last week. Lynn Freeman checks in with a couple of people from the local theatre community. Video, Audio

A lighter look at this past week -a new style of jean that has almost all of the denim removed is being mocked online after going on sale in a Los Angeles fashion outlet; a Melbourne library is shut… Audio

"Go out there and tell people," says Cori Gonzalez-Macuer (7 Days & What We Do in the Shadows) who wants people to open up more about their own life struggles. Cori is taking part in the mental health… Audio

After 400 shows, the theatre is closing effective immediately, leaving 11 staff jobless and the lower South Island without a professional theatre. Video, Audio

Robbie Ellis made his name in New Zealand as a serious composer, including time as the University of Otago's Mozart Fellow - but his latest work shows he's just as adept at writing comedic tongue… Audio

Our comedians delight in some of the lighter stories of the week including the apology cake made for an accidentally tasered firefighter. Audio

Pax Assadi is a first-generation New Zealander who first came on the comedy scene by turning some pretty negative experiences of racism as a young man, into a very funny, but poignant, act. He is all… Audio

Dancer and Choreographer Jandel J a.k.a. Justin Haiu is bringing The Perfect Gift to the New Zealand Comedy Festival - a rare example of a show aimed at children in the festival programme. Audio