Theatre

Director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company founded in 2000 to explore text-based theatre and redefine classic works. Their latest production is A Christmas Karel Capek at BATS (to 19… Audio

Award winning UK actor and playwright who is visiting Auckland in partnership with the British Council to present his solo show, I, Peaseblossom, the story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream… Audio

Playwright and actor Carl Bland discusses his new play Te Po. Part of the World Premiere Season at the New Zealand Festival and Auckland Arts Festival 2016, the play uses the opposites love and death… Audio

In 1942, 37 women died in a fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital just north of Dunedin. Until the Ballantynes fire in Christchurch a few years later, it was New Zealand's worst fire disaster. Playwright… Audio

Naomi van den Broek has been to see Mary Poppins at the Court Theatre. Audio

The Elephant Thief, which is set in the future, is written by Jacob Rajan, who for the first time won't be performing in an Indian Ink production. There are many including Krishnan's Dairy, Kiss the… Audio

'Evita' at the Opera House in Wellington. Audio

Auckland's Silo Theatre is putting on a play about the classic cooking duo Hudson and Halls at the Herald Theatre at the moment. Part of the show's run includes a Hudson and Halls dinner experience on… Audio

Playwright Eli Kent's latest work 'Peer Gynt Recycled' premieres this weekend with the Auckland Theatre Company. He talks about his inspiration: Henrik Ibsen. Audio

'All Our Sons' by Witi Ihimaera - currently being performed at Circa Theatre. Audio

RAD Talks is the Barbarian Productions contribution to this year's LitCrawl Festival in Wellington. Director Jo Randerson talks about the idea behind it. Audio

The 2016 Auckland Arts Festival programme is out now. Artistic director Carla van Zon previews some of the highlights from next year's lineup. Audio

Tutus add to the spectacle of classical ballet and are equally as important as the set design. This August, the New Zealand School of Dance launched an appeal to raise $9,000.00 towards the… Audio, Gallery

The Arts Foundation announced this year's group of Laureate Award winners at last night's ceremony at Auckland's Mercury Theatre. Director Sara Brodie is among the recipients, and she tells Clarissa… Audio

Director Nina Nawalowalo has been busy recently. At this year's Christchurch Festival she directed two shows: 'Duck, Death and the Tulip', and 'The White Guitar'. Upbeat roving correspondent Vincent… Audio

Ralph McCubbin Howell and Hannah Smith are travelling the country with three shows, have just opened a play challenging ANZAC mythology, and are working on another production that will premiere at… Audio

Forty years after he first started packing out New Zealand with his plays, Roger Hall has received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement and he's the first playwright to do so. Roger's… Audio

Maggie Roswell is best known for being the voices on The Simpsons of Helen Lovejoy, Maude Flanders, Milhouse's mother Luann, and Lisa's teacher Miss Hoover. She also memorably portrayed Mary Poppins… Audio