Plays & Stories

Including Radio drama, formation of Downstage Theatre, Pat Evison in 'Happy Days' at Downstage, formation Central Theatre in Auckland, formation of Mercury Theatre in Auckland with Pat Evison, Davina… Audio

Including NZ Players Drama Quartet, Southern Comedy Players, Bruce Mason, 'The Pohutakawa Tree', 'The End of the Golden Weather', James K Baxter, 'Jack Winter's Dream', Globe Theatre in Dunedin with… Audio

Including The New Zealand Players, 'The Tree' by Stella Jones with Ngaio Marsh, Richard Campion, Raymond Boyce, John Gordon, Edith Campion, Elric Hooper, Raymond Hawthorne, Ken Blackburn, George… Audio

Including Maria Dronke, Unity Theatre, 'The Trap' by Kathleen Ross, Community Arts Service, 'Waiting for Godot', Professor James Shelly, Canterbury University Drama Society, Lawrence Olivier and… Audio

Including Alan Wilkie and his Shakespeare company, British Drama League, 'Rabbits', Repertory Theatre with Alan Wilkie, David Carnegie, Howard McNaughton, Glyn Strange, Bruce Mason, Prue Langbein, Eva… Audio

Including 'The Land of the Moa', Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Gold, J C Williamsons, Nellie Stewart, 'Our Nell', Bland Holt, 'The Doll's House' with Peter Sledmere, Peter Downes, John Dryden, Howard… Audio

Sound designer Jason Smith is fighting the battle of Lone Pine - digitally. He's recreating the sound of this epic conflict during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign for Auckland Theatre Company and their… Audio

Clown Ollie Cox gets alienated in his new show about a Martian sent to Earth to figure out life, love and the universe. Audio

'Asian Invasion - Ten Token Tales' by Ensembleimpact Productions is a performance made up of 10 New Zealand plays into an hour long piece touring to secondary schools across the country. Lynda heads… Audio

Leaving Middle Earth and layers of prosthetics behind him, Hobbit actor Peter Hambleton directs a play which puts the Bard in a precarious ethical situation. Audio

Author, playwright and broadcaster who is a regular panelist on the quiz programme QI, and is a guest of the Auckland Writers Festival. Audio

The Week That Was with James Nokise and Pinky Agnew. Audio

Katy Gosset meets Thane Pullan - a rising star in stand up comedy who does his gigs sitting down and makes comic fodder of the fact. Thane uses a wheelchair and voice technology to deliver his… Audio

Following on from the success of Flight Of The Conchords, there are many comedians in New Zealand making music part of their shows – or musicians making comedy part of their shows.

Kirsten Johnstone… Audio

Reginald D. Hunter is one of the comedians performing in Auckland and Wellington as part of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival Audio

Simon London talks about staging a zombie apocalypse play in what was once part of Christchurch's Red Zone. Audio

It's a cliché that every comic has a dark heart but this year's NZ International Comedy Festival might just prove it once and for all. Death, divorce and life changing illness, it's all in there… Audio

Discussing the poems of Alan Brunton, as collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002. Audio

Founder and director of the Greek Theatre of New York, who brings Socrates Now, his interactive production of Plato's classic, to New Zealand this month. Audio

Natalie Haynes is a writer, classicist and comedian, whose first novel, The Amber Fury, has just been published. She also wrote the book, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, has made numerous… Audio