Silo Theatre is bring­ing last year’s Auck­land fest­ive hit “Hud­son and Halls” to the Han­nah Play­house. I’ve heard pos­it­ive reviews from my Auck­land friends and I’m so look­ing for­ward to see­ing it when it’s down here. Peter Hud­son and Dav­id Halls were on New Zea­l­and tele­vi­sion from 1976–1986 with a cook­ing show that included camp […]

BATS Theatre cel­eb­rates 21 years of STAB annu­al com­mis­sions with a pro­duc­tion of The Rime of the Mod­ern Mar­iner by The Play­Ground Col­lect­ive. In this adapt­a­tion “the Mar­iner sets out to sea to catch the ulti­mate prize, but when he care­lessly fells an albatross a curse befalls his ship. Stran­ded in the north Pacific Gyre […]

Two shows fea­tur­ing asshole* men. What are the odds? The odds are good and pretty enter­tain­ing. The Biggest by Jam­ie McCaskill Stu has had a ter­rible acci­dent, writ­ing off the car and the boat. His mates – Wal­ter, Pat, and Mick – decide to enter a fish­ing com­pet­i­tion to win him a new boat. Loc­al […]

Two plays on now in Wel­ling­ton – one a story pre-con­­­cep­­tion, the oth­er a story post-death. Both are very good. Review: Lungs A couple are think­ing about hav­ing a child. They’re pretty sure they’re good people but a whole new per­son is a pretty big respons­ib­il­ity. What about cli­mate change? What about their car­bon foot­print? […]

Pla­tonicRo­mantic Fea­tur­ing lead vocal­ist Moana Ete, and accom­pan­ied by the rhythm sec­tion of Slade But­ler and Mar­cus Gurt­ner  A Girl Named Mo deb­uted ‘Mud & Star­dust’ dur­ing Fly my Pret­ties’ August shows. A cool mix of R&B + elec­tron­ic and one of the pret­ti­est songs I’ve listened to for a while. Each per­form­ance will be […]