A skilful storyteller
Actor and director Martine Baanvinger takes centre stage in Lyttelton next month in a new one-woman play ‘Aperture.’ DramaLAB founder Baanvinger, who wrote and starred in the award-winning play Solitude, showcases the life and work of Ans Westra, a New Zealand Arts Foundation Icon photographer. In 1957, Westra emigrated from the Netherlands to […]
It’s getting hot in here! The Court Theatre
A Christchurch institution for 50 years, The Court Theatre continues presenting world-class entertainment this May with the classic Kiwi comedy Ladies Night. The story follows Barry and his friends, who are down on their luck after getting kicked out of a nightclub on a Saturday night. When they find out male strippers are […]
A fairy tale Christmas: Isaac Theatre Royal
Grab your godmother and touch up your tiara – Cinderella is coming to town! Magical transformations, heaps of hilarity, sparkling song and spectacular scenery is set to fill the stage of the Isaac Theatre Royal for nine shows this festive season. From December 15 to 20, the fairy godmother of all pantomimes, Cinderella, will […]
Parenting Unfiltered
Book a babysitter, because a hilarious, unfiltered and acclaimed play about raising children is coming to town. Based on the hugely popular book of the same name by blogger Emily Writes, Rants in the Dark is running at The Court Theatre this September. The show takes aim at the pressures on modern mothers […]
The musical of all musicals!
Showbiz Christchurch is set to raise the curtain on its first show for 2020, a stunning new production of the stage show described as the “musical of all musicals” My Fair Lady. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is that rare musical by which all others are measured. Pompous linguistics […]
Amazing Grace
It was always in his mind to cast an actress as young as possible in the role of Juliet because Shakespeare’s Juliet, of Romeo and Juliet, was a 13-year-old girl. Derek Doddington, Founder and Director of Top Dog Theatre, stands firmly by his ground-breaking decision. “With casting such a young cast, I’ll either fall on […]
Thrilling theatrical magic
It’s a fantastical lead up to Christmas as the curtain rises on The Court Theatre’s spectacular summer season of The Wind in the Willows, which was last performed there in 1995. Director Ross Gumbley says audiences can expect thrilling theatrical magic, whether they’ve seen the show before or not. “Our approach is not to […]