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Awatea
Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 4:52 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
What is more honourable: the truth that hurts, or the lie that heals? In 1968, George Henare played the role of Matt, the prodigal son, in the premiere of Bruce Mason's AWATEA. Now, 44 years later, Henare has come full circle as he takes on the role ... More >>
Tusk Tusk - Next Big Thing Festival
Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 3:24 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company proudly presents the New Zealand premiere of TUSK TUSK, a new play from award-winning playwright Polly Stenham (That Face), which opens on Friday 6 July, at The Basement, as part of the Next Big Thing Festival, a two-week ... More >>
Checkout Chicks: The Musical
Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 2:52 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company proudly presents the première of CHECKOUT CHICKS - THE MUSICAL, a wickedly funny new work by Rachel Callinan and Julia Truscott, which opens on Friday 6 July, at The Basement, as part of the Next Big Thing Festival, a two-week ... More >>
Eli Kent - The Voice a Generation
Monday, 28 May 2012, 5:05 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company proudly presents BLACK CONFETTI, a new play from award-winning writer Eli Kent (The Intricate Art Of Actually Caring and Thinning) which opens Thursday 28 June, at 8pm, at the Herald Theatre. More >>
Auckland Council Support For Visionary Waterfront Theatre
Friday, 25 May 2012, 4:28 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Council has confirmed its support of the 600-seat waterfront theatre development by maintaining its budget allocation of $10 million in the Long Term Plan. This follows a rigorous review of funding priorities by councillors, who are committed to achieving ... More >>
Councillors Attempt to Sabotage Waterfront Theatre Project
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 11:20 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is dismayed that eight Citizens and Ratepayers and Independent Auckland Councillors plan to move amendments to jeopardise Auckland Council's stake in a new theatre on the waterfront. More >>
The TelstraClear Season of A Shortcut To Happiness
Monday, 21 May 2012, 10:25 am | Auckland Theatre Company
For a little mid-winter romance, Roger Hall's joyous new play A SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS is coming Auckland's SKYCITY Theatre on June 7 before transferring to the Bruce Mason Centre on July 4, and then heading on a wider tour to Hamilton, New Plymouth, Hawkes ... More >>
ASB Community Trust Contributes $5 Million to Theatre
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 10:03 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is delighted to announce ASB Community Trust will contribute $5m to the new theatre proposed for the Wynyard Quarter. More >>
University-Theatre Partnership: Distinct Future for NZ Arts
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 9:11 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company (ATC) and AUT University are pleased to announce New Zealand's first comprehensive theatre and university partnership. The partnership will be focussed on supporting the business of theatre through education. More >>
ASBCT contributes $5million to New Theatre Project
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 9:07 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is delighted to announce ASB Community Trust will contribute $5m to the new theatre proposed for the Wynyard Quarter. More >>
Get to the Bottom of Love in 90 Minutes of Fast, Furious Fun
Monday, 30 April 2012, 5:34 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Raymond Hawthorne, one of NZ's most prestigious theatre actors and directors, will shortly tread the boards Shakespeare's mischievous goblin, Puck, in Auckland Theatre Company's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. More >>
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Get to the Bottom of Love
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 1:02 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Raymond Hawthorne, one of New Zealand's most prestigious theatre actors and directors, will shortly tread the boards as none other than Shakespeare's famously mischievous goblin, Puck, in Auckland Theatre Company's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM which opens ... More >>
Waterfront Theatre Project - The Coming of Age Campaign
Saturday, 10 March 2012, 6:40 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company launched a public fundraising campaign for a new purpose built 600-seat drama theatre on Auckland's waterfront in the Wynyard Quarter. More >>
In the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play)
Monday, 20 February 2012, 4:47 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Colin McColl directs a stellar cast including Anna Jullienne, Toni Potter, Hera Dunleavy, Adam Gardiner and in the acclaimed comedy, IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY). More >>
A comedy of sizzling summer shenanigans
Thursday, 12 January 2012, 3:49 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
The holiday fun continues as Auckland Theatre Company brings summer to the stage with THE MOTOR CAMP, which opens the 2012 Encounter season on February 9, at the Maidment Theatre. More >>
On The Upside-Down of the World
Thursday, 9 June 2011, 10:51 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Suppressed for 150 years, ATC's latest work uncovers the words of a woman who dared to challenge colonial injustice. More >>
A home theatre for Auckland Theatre Company
Friday, 27 May 2011, 3:25 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is delighted Auckland Council's Strategy and Finance Committee voted to approve $10 million towards the $40 million cost of Auckland Theatre Company's proposal for a performing arts complex in Wynyard Quarter, to sit alongside ASB's ... More >>
Turbo-charged bio-drama about famed artist Mark Rothko
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 11:24 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Oliver Driver directs Michael Hurst in Auckland Theatre Company's new production of John Logan's Tony Award winning play, RED, opening at the Maidment Theatre on June 2. More >>
ATC: Which Queen Will Rule the Stage?
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 3:01 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
For a Queen to stand, a Queen must fall. Robyn Malcolm and Elizabeth Hawthorne star in MARY STUART, Friedrich Schiller's thrilling account of the extraordinary relationship between England's Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth's rival ... More >>
Auckland Theatre Company: Christchurch Earthquake Response
Friday, 25 February 2011, 1:15 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company will donate the proceeds from a series of performances and other events to organisations in Christchurch over the coming months. The first dedicated fundraising performance will be this Sunday's (27 Feb at 4pm) performance of WELL ... More >>