Plays & Stories

With comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court. Audio

With comedians Te Radar and Pinky Agnew. Audio

Bill Burr is one of America's most sought after comedians and he's coming to New Zealand for the first time. Apart from comedy he's turned his hand to acting, playing Kuby on the cult TV show… Audio

Comedians Radar and Elisabeth Easther take a light hearted look at The Week that Was. Audio

Research by two leading Australian heart specialists, published in the International Journal of Cadiology, has found that the funnier a comedian is, the more likely he is to die. Audio

Australian choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell has a huge body of work in film and theatre, including the 1992 break-through hit Strictly Ballroom; Moulin Rouge, Shall We Dance? and The Great… Audio

Playwright previews the Basement Theatre season of his Hauraki Horror. Audio

The annual Auckland Theatre Awards were founded five years ago to celebrate the performing arts in the country's biggest city. But this year there's a difference - for the first time, there will be… Audio

The winner of the 2014 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, $10,000 prize, is Ralph McCubbin-Howell, one of the founders of playful Wellington theatre company Trick of the Light. Audio

Turkish Canadian balance artist who performs two acts in the touring Spiegelworld tent show Empire, a blend of comedy, acrobatics, vaudeville and burlesque. Audio

With comedians Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

'At the Wake' is a new black comedy by Victor Rodger, with Taofia Pelesasa playing the playwright himself. Audio

Comedian and actor Russell Brand expands on an fiery interview on BBC's Newsnight a year ago, in which he took on legendary interviewer Jeremy Paxman. In it, Brand lamented the state of the world and… Audio

He gets strange looks when he hands over his passport with Clown as his profession, but Thomas LaHood is taking the performance art in new directions. Thomas and his wife Jo Randerson have created a… Audio

It is a Wellington theatrical institution, carving out the early careers of many successful New Zealand actors, including Cliff Curtis and Kerry Fox. Audio

Upbeat Melbourne correspondent visits Christchurch for the reopening of the Isaac Theatre Royal and speaks to the major players and punters. Audio

Key moments in our history: a selection of Murray's reviews, eyewitness accounts, interviews and letters reflecting on New Zealand poetry and drama from the 1970s onwards. Then It Was Now Again is the… Audio

BATS has been the home of much of the most exciting theatre seen in Wellington for almost quarter of a century. It closed the doors on its Kent Terrace building almost two years ago for a… Audio

Comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink Audio

Film-maker Toa Fraser is returning to the theatre, 16 years after his the breakout season of his play 'Bare'. He tells Eva about what connects 'Bare' with his newest offering: 'Pure and Deep'. Audio