Shows
A gateway to the present
Perfectly pitched family drama and the Lochburns will bring love, laughter, loss, and live music into the light at Circa Theatre from the 5th of October to the 2nd of November. We caught up with playwright William Duignan ahead of the premiere season.
Catch, gut, release
We caught up with director and stage and screen veteran Jim Moriarty about Unreel, a play by Helen Pearse-Otene that tells the compelling story of a community affected by gambling.
Bi and beautiful
Drag, burlesque, comedy, and more unite in Bi Bi Bi: A Bisexual Pride Cabaret, an Ivy Bar and Cabaret show celebrating Bisexual Awareness Week on the 21st of September.
The truth is far stranger
Tom and Suzanne Denborough are in search of a tasteful terracotta townhouse on the outskirts of Antarctica. At least, they think they are…
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 17th 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 23rd to the 27th.
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 5th 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 3rd 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.