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Theatre Critic: Lexie Matheson
13 Oct 2016Lexie attended Monday night's preview of The Auckland Theatre Company's production of Billy Elliot The Musical. It opens tonight at Auckland's new ASB Waterfront Theatre. Audio
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British actor Christopher Eccleston and The A Word
British actor Christopher Eccleston famously abandoned the coveted lead role in Dr Who after just one series, despite it being a hugely popular reboot of the scifi show. Christopher may be fussy about… Audio
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Retro resurgence
7 Oct 2016Four short plays by American playwright Tennessee Williams will be on stage at the Basement in Auckland later this month. These rarely done early works share a common theme with Williams’ later famous… Audio
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The Week That Was with Te Radar and Irene Pink
7 Oct 2016Radar and Pinky Agnew discuss what makes people think you're 'creepy', clown sightings spreading, and Australia is slighty off on maps. Audio
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Vanilla Miraka by Hayley Sproull
6 Oct 2016A mix of standup comedy, song and monologue. Hayley Sproull delivers a self-deprecating view of her struggles to address her part-Maori heritage from a foundation of cultural clue-lessness. Audio
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Theatre Critic: Raewyn Whyte
6 Oct 2016This week we're talking dance with the associate editor of the New Zealand performing arts online review archive, theatreview.org.nz, Raewyn Whyte. Audio
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The Show Did Go On
In 1992 a sudden financial crisis forced the Mercury theatre to close in dramatic fashion. Auckland Theatre Company rose from its ashes. Actor/director Simon Prast was there and recalls the upheaval… Audio
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John Cleese anti-Scots rant
4 Oct 2016Comedian John Cleese may have run out of fans in Scotland after Twitter rant. Audio
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The Great Fire of London inspires a musical 350 years later
2 Oct 2016350 years in the making, a new Kiwi musical called Fire on the River is set to re-ignite interest in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Auckland writer-composer Graeme John Webber was inspired by a… Audio
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Shakespeare's Shylock - villain, victim or both?
2 Oct 2016Shylock remains one of the most problematic of all Shakespeare's hundreds of characters.It's not just that the Jewish stereotype he represents is offensive. People remain divided over whether Shylock… Audio
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Shakespeare with David Lawrence: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1 Oct 2016Kim Hill talks to David Lawrence is research and development consultant for the Popup Globe, and director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company he founded in 2000 to explore text-based… Audio
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The week that was with Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood
30 Sep 2016Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood on the lengths people will go to avoiding paying for plastic bags, the solving of the mysterious missing bus shelter - and why asking police to help you find a lost… Audio
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Theatre Critic: Maraea Rakuraku
29 Sep 2016Maraea Rakuraku reviews VANILLA MIRAKA by Hayley Sproull. Audio
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Teddy Tahu Rhodes is Sweeney Todd
NZ Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd which is on at the moment. The story was originally published as a penny dreadful in 1846 that morphed over the years into a play and then the Broadway show, that… Audio
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The unlikely existence of Angels In America
27 Sep 2016Tony Kushner’s Tony winner Angels in America is considered a classic of American theatre, a two part epic clashing together themes of religion, politics, and sexuality. Kushner went on to pen the… Audio
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Gender inequality in New Zealand theatre
A hui this week held on Suffrage Day brought together around a hundred people to kick around some ideas. Lynn Freeman talks to two of the speakers, Kate JasonSmith and Hannah Banks. Audio
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Celebrating grandma through cabaret
The Auckland Live International Cabaret Season is about to begin its third year featuring a suite of critically-acclaimed cabaret shows from across the globe and closer to home. The Basement theatre… Audio
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Theatre Critic: Michael Hooper
22 Sep 2016Michael reviews the New Zealand Opera co-production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, currently playing in Auckland with short seasons next month in Wellington and Christchurch Audio
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South Auckland theatre remodels Shakespeare through Pasifika
19 Sep 2016A theatre group in South Auckland is using classic English literature to break down negative stereotypes surrounding Maori and Pasifika people. Video, Audio
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Sweeney Todd reviewed
Peter Hoar reviews New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd. It stars Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Sweeney Todd and Australian soprano Antoinette… Audio, Gallery
