Plays & Stories

Lyttleton's Loons circo-theatre company is going back to school, a primary school that is. Loons Founder, Mike Friend, and producer Darryl Cribb having been making shows together since 2006 but Loons… Audio

It's taken twenty years but the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes finally has its own venue solely for the arts. Te Oro Glen Innes Music and Arts Centre wants to bring young people together to, in their… Audio

Jacob Rajan's Krishnan's Dairy was a surprise theatrical hit back in the early 1990s and his theatre company, Indian Ink, has continued to tour one man shows internationally since then. His latest… Audio

Upbeat broadcasts from Queenstown's Michael Hill International Violin Competition, before Eva speaks to playwright Jamie McCaskill and American Wagnerian soprano Christine Goerke. Audio

With comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink. Audio

Director of Taki Rua's Nga Pou Wahine at Auckland's Te Ahi Kaa Festival Audio

A Gilded-age millionaire saved some of the greatest works by William Shakespeare from oblivion. Henry Folger obsessively collected the works of Shakespeare. The great playwright left no manuscripts… Audio

Jamie McCaskill is the writer and director of 'Not in Our Neighbourhood', an up-close look at domestic violence, reflecting the time he spent on the staff of the Hauraki Women's Refuge. Audio

This years joint winners of this year's Playmarket B4 25 competition Cassandra Tse and Nathan Joe for their works Long Ago, Long Ago and Hippolytus Veiled. Audio

Australian playwright Declan Greene has made quite an impact on the world's stages, and his new show 'Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography' is about to debut at Auckland's Silo theatre. Audio

With Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

Actress and writer Angelica Page is the daughter of Geraldine Page and Rip Torn. Angelica's new play at Circa Theatre, Turning Page, is an account of her mother's life. When she died at the age of 62… Audio

New Zealand's distressing child murder and abuse record is investigated in a new play, Days Like Today. Inspired in part by the Chris Kahui trial, Auckland playwright Laurence Dolan wrote a script… Audio

With comedians Te Radar and Pinky Agnew. Audio

Simon Morris reviews the alleged spy spoof comedy Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham. Video, Audio

Patrick Spottiswoode is the founding director of Globe Education, and he's here as an assessor for the Shakespeare Globe Centre of New Zealand-University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival. Audio

The Mooncake and the Kūmura is a debut play from award winning new playwright Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen. It first performed at the Loft, Q Theatre as part of the Auckland Arts Festival earlier this year… Audio

Not that long ago the idea of a New Zealand standup comedian making it in America would once have been a particularly big stretch. But that's the premise of Success - a tale of plagiarism, the price… Audio