Shows

A spoonful of sugar

Irish comedian Ed Byrne makes light of a minor and a major tragedy in his new show Tragedy Plus Time, at The Opera House on the 17^th of August.

Who let the hound out?

Lord Baskerville is dead. Beside his body? The pawprints of a phantom hound, once thought to be nought but local legend. Wellington Repertory Theatre will bring Sherlock Holmes to the stage to solve the mystery in The Hound of the Baskervilles this August.

Catch him if you can

Catch the White Rabbit if you can when KAT Theatre brings Alice – A Musical, a tuneful take on an old classic for all ages, to Khandallah these school holidays.

Heady and heated

WITCH Music Theatre will have you on the knife’s edge of your set for Lizzie the Musical, a punk-rock musical reimagining of the gripping true-crime case of Lizzie Borden.

Shaken and stirred

The world is not enough for MI6’s recently demoted agent Steele. Help her save the world alongside Russian operative Titsa Dynamite in the spy comedy Two Girls One Gun at BATS Theatre from the 23^rd to the 27^th.

Buzzy

Ponder life’s great questions and venture into the depths of your soul with Pure Grime, a show that celebrates the grotesque and explores what it means to be human from the perspective of a fly. Catch it at Vogelmorn Bowling Club on the 5^th of July.

Scrumptious, rambunctious

Sense and Sensibility is a story full of surprises – especially when the staged retelling comes from the brilliant mind of Penny Ashton. Catch this rambunctious ride until the 3^rd of August at Circa Theatre.

Crushed garlic and scrambled eggs

With song and dance, zany costumes, topical humour for the grownups, and side-splitting silliness for the littlies, The Pantoloons’ Puss in Boots is the purrfect school holiday treat.

Can you keep the secret?

With no rehearsals and no director, six actors of a refugee background will arrive at Te Auaha in turn to perform a script they’ve never read before. Welcome to White Rabbit Red Rabbit, the worldwide phenomenon that no one’s allowed to talk about.

Into the swamp

Ready the carriage for Far Far Away – in celebration of the 20^th anniversary of Shrek 2, Ivy Bar and Cabaret will be transformed into a swamp filled with all your fairytale favourites on the 22^nd of June.

Bloody funny

Get ready to cackle. Femme Natale: The Queen Years, an adults-only sketch-comedy play on parenthood, is coming to BATS Theatre from the 28^th of May to the 1^st of June.

Get roasted

Raw Meat Monday cooks up some perfectly roasted jokes and the occasional charred pun at each weekly comedy session. Come chew on a few at The Fringe Bar on the 27^th of May and the 1^st of June.