Plays & Stories

Puppeteer Peter Wilson talks about his children's theatre company Little Dog Barking which is in demand across the world. He works with composers using music as a key to provide emotional depth. Peter… Audio

Since opening in February, over 80,000 tickets have been sold at the Pop-up Globe theatre in Auckland. That number is set to rise as two additional weeks of Shakespeare will take the season through…

Director and producer Joel Baxendale and Karin McCracken have devised a semi-improvised court room drama to be staged at Wellington's Bats Theatre next week investigating the debate over TVNZ's… Audio, Gallery

By the 1930's lyricist, dramatist, writer, painter and wit Sir Noel Coward was supposedly the highest earning author in the western world. Opera New Zealand General Manager Stuart Maunder will be… Audio

Actor Alice Canton explores the her dual identities in a solo show called White/Other and looks at what it means to be Chinese and Pakeha. Audio

Rhys Darby is a busy man; as well as winning praise for his latest big-screen role in Taika Waititi's 'Hunt For the Wilderpeople' he's also headlining the International Comedy Festival. He speaks to… Audio

Juliette Sivertsen goes behind the scenes at the Founders Theatre to discover how its closure has impacted the musical theatre and artistic communities in the Waikato. Audio

Laurel Devenie and Kelly Johnson from Company of Giants talk about Rangitahua: the Stopping Off Place. The Whangarei based theatre collective created the work to complement the exhibition Kermadec… Audio

'You can always hand them back' by Roger Hall. Audio

To say Taika Waititi's new film Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a hit is putting it mildly.  It's broken the record for an opening weekend in New Zealand - a record previously held by Taika's own Boy. … Audio

For Generation X - Bill Oddie will forever be known as a Goodie - one of the three madcap comedians that took UK television by storm. Since those halcyon days, Bill Oddie has turned to the art of… Audio

One of Australia's best known and best loved comedians, Peter Helliar joins Wallace ahead of his International Comedy Festival appearance in Auckland. They talk about the similarities of 'Strayan and… Audio

With Te Radar and Elizabeth Easther Audio

John Smythe has trained and worked professionally in Australia and New Zealand as a writer, screenwriting teacher, actor, director and theatre critic. Audio

Stepping into the spotlight are Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin Howell the brains behind the theatre company Trick of the Light. The company are presenting the show Beards! Beards! Beards! at Bats… Audio

Chances are that if you've seen a play in Wellington in the last few years Paul Waggott was in it, often as a member of his collective My Accomplice. He's performing in a physically demanding, one man… Audio

Christchurch playwright Carl Nixon's new comedy Matthew, Mark, Luke and Joanne explores the tendency to listen to people who tell us how to think. Matthew's wife and best friend struggle to deal with… Audio

With James Elliot and Elizabeth Easther. Audio