September 15, 2007

Bye bye! Tonight is the last performance of Auckland Theatre Company’s The Pillowman...

September 11, 2007

ATC ARTISTIC DIRECTOR INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Auckland Theatre Company warmly invites applications from suitably experienced theatre practitioners for the Company’s inaugural Artistic Director Internship Programme (ADIP)....

September 9, 2007

TOOLS for original composition workshop A weekend workshop [in Wellington] equipping you with the tools and tactics to create original performance work....

September 8, 2007

King Lear. Before everybody goes running off to Auckland [or Wellington] to see this much-awaited version of King Lear, and raises a small mortgage to do so, you might like to read Germaine Greer’s wickedly wonderful account of the Brit season on the Guardian website.  The review is titled “So…...

September 6, 2007

Favourite Theatre? A question for the people who work in theatre or attend theatre: What is your favourite theatre in New Zealand to work in / watch theatre in and why?...

September 6, 2007

Waiata: the new applause? The night I visited Aurelia’s Oratorio at the St James, the performers’ curtain call was interrupted by an entire row of Toi Whakaari students standing up to perform a waiata.  They sang for several minutes...

September 5, 2007

Stoppard dated? More likely our ears… [The Real Thing]. As an audience member who has seen almost all Stoppard to be performed in the greater Auckland region in the past long-while-and-a-bit, it saddens me to read the reviews of Silo Theatre’s recent production...

September 4, 2007

The UNSOLICITED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ACT 2007 comes into effect on 5 September, as many of you will have been advised umpteen times … Theatreview is not joining the rush to email everyone about the legislation – an action which, ironically, is clogging inboxes as effectively as spam itself....

September 1, 2007

Monarchy The Musical is soooooooooooooooo cool...

August 31, 2007

A National Theatre Company. I am the Founding Trustee of the newly established “The FAME Trust”...

August 30, 2007

FOR THOSE HAVING TROUBLE FORMATTING THEIR FORUM COMMENTS: it seems it is a bug with Firefox for Mac …...

August 29, 2007

To all theatreview members with xtra email addresses: I finally got to talk to a human being at the xtra help desk. It seems the switch to ‘yahoo!xtra’ caused a great deal of email to be designated ‘Spam’ and not delivered....

August 27, 2007

Vitriol versus fair comment. Once more unsubstantiated invective is being used as a poor substitute for fair comment...

August 24, 2007

The Seagull. While their King Lear did leave much to be desired (for the record I loved McKellen and Gaunt and Monica Dolan, the rest for me were neither here nor there) “The Seagull” was a triumph...

August 23, 2007

Investment in regional theatres...

August 21, 2007

When Reality and Theatre Butt Heads. I wrote a play based loosely on my brother...

August 21, 2007

YOUR CHANCE TO SEE THE NEXT GENERATION OF AOTEAROA PLAYWRIGHTS Friday 7th September, The Edge, Aotea Centre Six young playwrights who been singled out by Playmarket, New Zealand’s playwright development organisation, in the Ninth New Zealand Young Playwrights Competition will have their work presented to the public in Auckland at…...

August 21, 2007

ADAM PLAYREADING SERIES 2007 Downstage Theatre 26 August – 16 September, Sundays at 3 pm Presented by Playmarket, Downstage Theatre Society and Downstage Theatre with sponsorship from the Adam Foundation. Join us for this introduction to Wellington of four superb New Zealand plays with top-flight Wellington actors and directors....

August 15, 2007

Should criticism be challenged? I say theatre practitioners – and audience members – have every right to challenge criticism....

August 5, 2007

PLAYS, PLAYERS AND PLACES: A SPOTLIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND THEATRE Saturday 13 October 2007, 10am – 4.30pm, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, VUW — Pipitea Campus Presented by Victoria Continuing Education in partnership with the New Zealand Theatre Archive...

August 4, 2007

HAVE YOU DECIDED WHAT YOU’VE BEEN SEEKING ALL YOUR LIFE? Maybe it’s a season at BATS Theatre during the NZ Fringe Festival 2008, 8 February – 2 March? If so…...

August 2, 2007

The tapas approach. “Leaving at half time – the tapas approach to concerts and plays.” This trend was articulated...

July 25, 2007

Theatre Venues. Question; Do people out there think there is a lack of theatre space available in Wellington to stage their work?...