March 19, 2024

Comment on review of “Lost Lear” – An insightfully expressed alignment of Shakespeare’s text and intent...

March 17, 2024

Comment on review of “Lost Lear” – creativity but the vocal projection was sadly poor...

March 11, 2024

Comment on review of “Only the Stars Know Where I’ve Been” – The recent five night showing has been met by audiences with a gentle astonishment for the other worldly androgynously pitched duet…...

February 11, 2024

Comment on review of “Heartbreak House” – Shaw always seemed more head than heart to me....

November 13, 2023

Comments on review of “A Streetcar Named Desire” – Emilie Hope’s review of the National Theatre Live at Home production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” is a remarkable piece of writing....

September 15, 2023

Comment on review of “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche”...

September 2, 2023

Comment on review of “Play With Your Food 2010: Café Theatre”...

August 15, 2023

Comment on review of “No Freedom Without You”...

June 18, 2023

Comment on review of “Sax Appeal”...

May 29, 2023

Comment on review of “Romeo and Juliet 2023”...

May 19, 2023

Comments on review of “Maria Williams – ADHD – The Musical”...

May 18, 2023

Comment on review of “Guy Montgomery – My Brain is Blowing Me Crazy”...

May 9, 2023

Comment on review of “Kōpū”...

April 19, 2023

Comment on review of “The Unruly Tourists”...

March 20, 2023

Comment on review of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”...

March 8, 2023

Comment on review of “Watch Out Gay Panda”...

February 22, 2023

Comment on review of “Magic in the Air”...

February 13, 2023

Comment on review of “Sense and Sensibility”...

December 23, 2022

CNZ decision to defund Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand. A top Auckland University English Professor has written a highly-critical letter to the chief executive of a government agency that cut funding to a school Shakespeare festival on the basis it represents a “canon of imperialism”....

December 1, 2022

LIVING WITH THE ARTS ‘NO-STRATEGY STRATEGY’ Lucy Marinkovich on being rejected as an artist despite your excellence A fact of life: no one likes being rejected. As a professional artist, it’s inevitable you will cultivate an intimate relationship with rejection. I recently received an email that translated as the ultimate…...

September 1, 2022

Phillip Mann MNZM died on Thursday 1 September 2022...

September 1, 2022

WRITER AND THEATRE DIRECTOR PHILLIP MANN DIES Writer and director Phillip Mann MNZM died on Thursday 1 September in Wellington. A major contributor to the development of New Zealand theatre, Mann was the founding teacher at the country’s first University drama department, at Victoria University Te Herenga Waka in 1970.…...

May 21, 2022

Biographical Plays? Can anyone recommend a ‘biographical play text’ – a play written about someone’s life in New Zealand?...