Nestled in a central city car park in Tāmaki Makaurau, Basement Theatre has changed the face of independent theatre in Aotearoa and is home to a mixtape of unique local voices: theatre makers, dancers, visual artists, poets, musicians, comedians, and everyone in between. The Shared Camaraderie of Weirdoes is an oral history telling the story of the Basement’s birth and its evolution over the past decade.
In an anonymous industrial building in Avondale, Lucy Lawless and her producer Husband, Rob Tapert, present Pleasuredome, a musical extravaganza set in the disco era in New York. Behind the razzle dazzle? Hopes that Auckland will be a fruitful testing ground for global ambitions.
Polite, warm, but generally anxious, comedian and Billy T nominee Angella Dravid is still searching for the punchlines in her upcoming solo show. Luckily, the search is part of the charm.
Sometimes described as the voice of his generation, 28-year-old playwright Eli Kent adapts a theatrical masterpiece for Auckland Arts Festival — and almost loses himself in the process.
Actor James Rolleston spent five weeks in a coma last year after a serious car crash. Now, sometimes struggling for words, he’s combining a slow-but-steady recovery with a national road trip to promote his latest movie.
Ahead of the world premiere of Hudson & Halls Live!, we look back on the story of Peter Hudson and David Halls, two iconic TV personalities from the 80s whose lives were inextricably intertwined.
Richard Dean Anderson was made famous by MacGyver and has been haunted by him ever since. Rosabel Tan headed to Armageddon to watch him talking with ghosts.
Silo Theatre is renowned for it's slick, sexy, contemporary shows, but this wasn't always the case. We take a look back at the thirteen years Shane Bosher spent building the company from the ground up.
Ollie is a Martian is a wonderfully silly and unexpectedly poignant one-man show, devised by Oliver Cox and his uncle Barnie Duncan. Ahead of their opening, Rosabel Tan chats to them about clown school, being an alien, and giant moas.
They call it the play nobody's allowed to talk about - with good reason. On the back of Silo Theatre's recent season of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, Rosabel talks to Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour about his work.
When you're writing a novel about your life, how do you choose what's worth retelling? Rosabel Tan talks to Aorewa McLeod about the relationship between memory and fiction.
Pip Adam: 2011 winner of the Best First Book Award for Fiction, and now officially one of the New Generation. Rosabel Tan talks to her about winning the award, her influences, and the story she holds dearest to her heart.
It had all the makings of a bad end: three unlikely friends brought together by circumstance, a little-known institute investigating unorthodox memory transplantation techniques, and an email that warned “cell phones rarely work out here.”
In 2003, Duncan Greive wrote a damning review of Opensouls which resulted in "The Critic", a song that passionately slates him and asks, “What’s with all the criticism?” Nine years on, Chip Matthews and The Critic himself discuss the review, the song, and how they feel about it now.
