December 6, 2007

WHEN MARK TWAIN MEETS THE TUATARAS Playwright and author David Geary has been announced as the 2008 Writer in Residence with the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington....

December 5, 2007

Unpublished ‘classics’ of the NZ stage. I had great fun this year helping to publish the first two books in the New Zealand Play Series....

December 5, 2007

2007 NZ COMEDY GUILD AWARD NOMINEES From record crowds and television ratings in New Zealand to cult status and Hollywood offers in the US, 2007 has been a huge year for New Zealand comedy. Annually, the members of the New Zealand Comedy Guild vote on those they believe are the…...

December 4, 2007

Congratulations all! Congrats to last nights winners of the Chappy’s...

December 3, 2007

Downstage online. Just a quick post to let you know, that Downstage has a couple of new web tools...

December 3, 2007

CHAPMAN TRIPP THEATRE AWARDS 2007 Chapman Tripp are delighted to announce the results of the 16th annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. Nominees have been selected from over 80 professional New Zealand productions performed in Wellington, by a panel of theatre critics from the following publications: New Zealand Listener, The Dominion…...

November 29, 2007

FRINGE FRIDAYS The New Zealand Fringe Festival presents Fringe Fridays, an informal, informational socialising and networking opportunity for Wellington’s arts and culture community....

November 28, 2007

CHAPMAN TRIPP NOMINEE TAKES ON NEW ROLE Simon Vincent, 2007 Chapman Tripp Nominee for best Supporting Actor, has taken on a new role… as writer....

November 28, 2007

The Manawatu (New Zealand) INTERNATIONAL ONE-ACT PLAYWRITING COMPETITION 2008 … The theme of the 2008 festival is ‘New World’ and we are looking for writing that explores this theme experimentally and in a theatrically challenging manner....

November 25, 2007

Zarathustra Said, Happy! 25-27/11 2030. Just in case none of the professional theatre writer types didn’t make it down to Happy! for the first night of the Wellington Performing Arts Centre’s Graduates energetic and dynamic version of Alan Brunton’s masterwerk meditation on endstage human’s predicament. I’d like to make sure…...

November 22, 2007

2007 ARTS FOUNDATION LAUREATE AWARDS, PRESENTED BY FORSYTH BARR Five of New Zealand’s distinguished artists have been honoured for their artistic achievements and for excellence in their chosen practice at the eighth annual Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards. The Awards, presented by Principal Sponsor Forsyth Barr, were held…...

November 21, 2007

NEW ZEALAND’S LOST LITERATURE GOES TO PRINT Some of New Zealand’s finest writing of the last 15 years is now in print. Five of our most classic works for the theatre from two leading playwrights – works that have changed the way we look at ourselves – are now available…...

November 20, 2007

B-Side Wellington forum report. Congratulations to everyone involved in each step of this process....

November 19, 2007

New Zealand International Arts Festival. Thought I would start a topic about the New Zealand International Arts Festival to garner the thoughts of “Theatreviewers”....

November 19, 2007

Report of B-SIDE : Wellington Independent Theatre Practitioners Forum 15/9/07. Earlier this year members of the BATS board initiated a forum for independent theatre practitioners as a response to the growing call for meeting and discussion amongst theatre practitioners,...

November 18, 2007

Fringe funding. “Kakano funding has been allocated …”...

November 17, 2007

SOAP STAR WINS NZ’S NATIONAL PLAYWRITING AWARD Best known as Dr Chris Warner of Shortland Street medical practice, Michael Galvin has been recognised as an outstanding emerging playwright, with the award of New Zealand’s most significant national theatre award, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award....

November 16, 2007

MICHAEL GALVIN WINS THE BRUCE MASON PLAYWRITING AWARD The winner of the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award 2007 is Michael Galvin whose plays include New Gold Dream, The Ocean Star and Station to Station....

November 15, 2007

Chapman Tripp awards. Many congratulations to all those nominated for Chapman Tripp awards, it is fantastic to see our industry recognised and celebrated....

November 15, 2007

CASH FOR FRINGE SCANDAL: ANSWERS WANTED New Zealand’s arts and culture community is demanding answers from the 2008 New Zealand Fringe Festival, following the revelation that tens of thousands of dollars of public money was given to artists for Fringe 08....

November 14, 2007

Settling – the headphones. The question is: do the headphones in Settling (the BATS/STAB show) intensify the state in which we engage with live theatre, add a whole new dimension or rob it of an essential component?...

November 14, 2007

CHAPMAN TRIPP THEATRE AWARD NOMINEES Chapman Tripp are delighted to announce the nominees for the 16th annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. Two New Zealand plays, Homeland by Gary Henderson and The Hollow Men by Dean Parker have topped the nomination list for 2007 …...

November 12, 2007

Wellington Independent Theatre Practitioner Support Programme. From now until July 2008 I will be piloting a support programme for Wellington’s independent theatre practitioners....