Plays & Stories

Theatre, music, visual arts and film are at the core of the Putahi Festival which encourages emerging Maori and Pacific artists to explore indigenous stories. The Wellington festival opens on… Audio

The national kapahaka festival Te Matatini begins on 23 February. In the lead-up, Te Ahi Kaa discusses mōteatea (chants) with Dr Wayne Ngata and waiata-a-ringa (action songs) with the late Matiu… Audio

He co-wrote the hit play Ladies Night; worked on the screenplay for the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; has a critically acclaimed novel and a feature film to his name; Metro described him as "New… Audio

The 2017 season of Wellington Summer Shakespeare has kicked off with a performance of All's Well That Ends Well and a book has been published to commemorate 34 years of this event in the capital. Kim… Audio

How do you tell a story that’s based in the dark through light? That’s exactly what lighting expert Duncan Milne has been tasked to do for acclaimed New Zealand playwright Stephen Sinclair’s new piece… Audio

Just imagine floating on water while taking in a show. That’s the idea behind designer/director Stephen Bain’s Floating Theatre, which brings the indoors out. The 30 seat theatre, which floats on… Audio

Australian writer Ben Law has explored the problems of growing up gay and Asian in Queensland in the ‘90s in a new TV show. He talks with Wallace Chapman. Audio

Carl Bland is an acclaimed actor, playwright and painter, and the son of another renown New Zealand actor Peter Bland. He was a core cast member shows such as Rude Awakenings, and hit drama Street… Audio

It’s hard enough having one show in the Fringe festival, but how about two. Wellington based Eliza Sanders brings two solo show – Castles, and Pedal - to the Basement Theatre in Auckland, in late… Audio

The links between Rapa Nui and New Zealand are brought to the fore in a new NZ Fringe Festival show. Audio

There's speed dating, online dating, and now Onstage Dating.

Award-winning Australian performer Bron Batten is a Tinderella, a serial dater... and she does it all in front of an audience.

Bron's… Audio

A devised theatre show called deVine has taken as its subject the tensions around a family dealing and not dealing with mental health issues.

RECollective Theatre Company wants to tackle this issue… Audio

It’s a fact of life, we all die. Death is theme of Once There Was A Woman created and performed by Beth Kayes. Grief, memory, vulnerability, caring for the elderly and death, along with race… Audio

Swedish born, Amsterdam-based playwright Jakob Ahlbom is bringing his theatrical work Horror to the Auckland Arts Festival in March. Audio