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The Trip of Life Time. The Comedy of the Year
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 12:40 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company brings New Zealand’s best-loved playwright, Roger Hall new play FOUR FLAT WHITES IN ITALY to audience across the North Island this June and July More >>
ATC Oliver! boys’ roles open auditions
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 5:26 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is looking for talented boys to play Oliver, the Artful Dodger and Fagin’s Gang in their end of year musical OLIVER! directed by Raymond Hawthorne. The season plays at SKYCITY Theatre from October 29. More >>
Hatch, or The Plight of the Penguins
Monday, 23 February 2009, 1:42 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Geoff Chapple’s rollicking Hatch or The Plight of the Penguins introduces a fascinating character from New Zealand’s rich history – Joseph Hatch. One man, three million penguins and an obsession with oil – one of the most bizarre chapters of New Zealand ... More >>
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Saturday, 17 January 2009, 2:33 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Lisa Chappell and Mike Edward star in THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, the hilarious whodunit thriller and quick-change comedy adaptation of John Buchan’s classic spy novel which opens Auckland Theatre Company’s 2009 season at the Maidment Theatre on February ... More >>
Where We Once Belonged
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 10:43 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company’s adaptation and production of Sia Figiel’s ground breaking novel WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED won the “Absolutely Positively Outstanding New New Zealand Play of the Year” award at the 2008 Chapman Tripp theatre awards announced ... More >>
Swotting Up At The Theatre
Friday, 21 November 2008, 10:27 am | Auckland Theatre Company
This Monday and Tuesday secondary school drama students will sit their NCEA drama exam, whilst many students have swotted nervously over text books in preparation, thousands more students will have prepared for their upcoming exam, by going to the ... More >>
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 3:31 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as six deliciously geeky, philologically industrious twelve-year-olds from across the county take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events ... More >>
Literary Manager Appointed
Monday, 29 September 2008, 9:53 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is delighted to announce the appointment of Philippa Campbell, one of New Zealand’s leading feature film producers, to the position of Literary Manager. Philippa will take up the role on October 6 in conjunction with Auckland ... More >>
Meet The Spellers
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 11:51 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is delighted to announce the full cast for The New Zealand Post season of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. More >>
The Next Stage Festival Of New New Zealand Plays
Friday, 22 August 2008, 2:29 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company Literary Unit announces the line-up for this year’s developmental workshops, celebrating 7 years of actively supporting New Zealand playwrights. More >>
Blackbird: Michael Hurst and Liesha Ward Knox
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 10:56 am | Auckland Theatre Company
Michael Hurst and Liesha Ward Knox star in Auckland Theatre Company’s BLACKBIRD, David Harrower’s electrifying and explosive new play opening at the Maidment Theatre on September 4. More >>
The New Zealand Post season of Ship Songs
Friday, 18 July 2008, 3:58 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
SHIP SONGS traverses the symbolic connection between the sea, the human capacity for love and everyone’s quest to reach the shore. More >>
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Monday, 16 June 2008, 2:28 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Big Daddy is dying; the vultures are circling. Maggie the Cat saunters onto the Maidment Theatre stage on July 10 in Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece of secrets and lies, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. More >>
The Media - On Stage
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 5:06 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Journalist and playwright Simon Cunliffe’s sharp new comedy, THE TRUTH GAME, will be performed as a semi-staged reading by Auckland Theatre Company on Wednesday 12 June 2008 at the Art Lounge. More >>
Elizabeth Hawthorne in International Hit Comedy
Monday, 7 April 2008, 3:38 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Elizabeth Hawthorne stars in THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, Joanna Murray-Smith’s monstrously up front comedy inspired by Germaine Greer’s infamous brush with a crazed and confused young female student, which opens at the Maidment Theatre on ... More >>
Media Alerts March 2008
Monday, 3 March 2008, 4:08 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Brooke Williams has been cast in the role of Molly Rivers in Joanna Murray-Smith’s hilarious comedy, FEMALE OF THE SPECIES. In a scenario inspired by a real life incident endured by Germaine Greer, Molly bursts into the fashionably famous feminist author ... More >>
Where We Once Belonged
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 11:08 am | Auckland Theatre Company
WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED is a co-commission between New Zealand International Arts Festival and Auckland Theatre Company. More >>
Design For Living by Noël Coward
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 3:29 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Lisa Chappell stars in DESIGN FOR LIVING, Noël Coward's sparkling comedy of manners about an impossible ménage à trois which opens Auckland Theatre Company's 2008 season at the Maidment Theatre on February 14 More >>
Shrew’d young things prove knockout performers
Friday, 18 January 2008, 12:54 am | Auckland Theatre Company
The talented winners of OpenCall 07 take to the stage this summer in a dynamic production inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. OpenCall 07 was a NZ Post and Auckland Theatre Company initiative, hundreds of aspiring actors from around the country went online ... More >>
Would You Please Welcome To The Stage¦
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 2:09 pm | Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company and New Zealand Post are delighted to announce the winners of Opencall 07 More >>