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Crow's Feet - Dance Collective
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 3:22 pm | Downstage Theatre
Ten years ago director Jan Bolwell, at the age of 48, was recovering from two bouts of breast cancer. She decided to start dancing again to aid her recovery. A group of women about her age saw Gaylene Preston’s film about breast cancer ‘Titless ... More >>
Strike Soundsystem: Big beats and good times
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:34 pm | Downstage Theatre
Strike Percussion are back at Downstage for one very special show. Showcasing live favourites and tracks from their brand new album, Strike Soundsystem brings the exhilaration of four live percussionists who beat, bang, hammer and cajole a range of traditional ... More >>
The SEEyD Theatre Company presents: Turbine
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:32 am | Downstage Theatre
With the controversial issue of wind farming SEEyD “blows another gust of fresh air through Wellington theatre” (Laurie Atkinson, The Dominion Post). What happens when a company that’s doing everything it can to save the environment can’t reconcile ... More >>
NZ Fringe Festival: Adam Page Solo
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:29 am | Downstage Theatre
A one-man-does-all musical extravaganza with 15 instruments, 1 vegetable and so many possibilities! More >>
Downstage Season One Showcase 2009
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:20 am | Downstage Theatre
Downstage Theatre is excited to announce its programme for the first half of 2009. After a very successful year with seven Chapman Tripp Awards for productions staged at Downstage, the 2009 Season One Showcase “Get your blood pumping!” offers another ... More >>
A glamorous and cosmopolitan night of song
Friday, 3 October 2008, 9:57 am | Downstage Theatre
Following the success of her Marlene Dietrich cabaret Falling In Love Again, Jennifer Ward-Lealand takes centre stage again with THE LOOK OF LOVE – EVOCATIVE/PROVOCATIVE - a new cabaret show celebrating love in all its guises More >>
The Little Dog Laughed - from 7 Nov
Friday, 3 October 2008, 9:53 am | Downstage Theatre
Friends, Lovers, Enemies, Agents - Acquire a taste of Hollywood at Downstage! Downstage Theatre presents THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED by Douglas Carter Beane More >>
BARE by Toa Fraser @ Downstage Theatre
Friday, 19 September 2008, 12:14 am | Downstage Theatre
Toa Fraser's New Zealand comedy BARE is a hilarious matrix of urban poetry and streetwise lip. Two actors rap and riff on body image, films, takeaway food, graffiti, multiplexes and English literature. More >>
On the Conditions... @ Downstage Sept 12 - 20
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 11:18 am | Downstage Theatre
Join our overeducated free-market Casanova (Billy T Award Nominee Arthur Meek) as he charges through the pop-cultural slipstream to prove his amorous point : that by taking him as her gentle knight prior to the 2008 general election, Helen Clark ... More >>
Downstage dares to be different
Monday, 9 June 2008, 2:25 pm | Downstage Theatre
Downstage, New Zealand’s longest running professional theatre, will keep its doors open. The recent Creative New Zealand (CNZ) Arts Board meeting on 26 May confirmed the company would receive funding until the end of the year. CNZ also acknowledged ... More >>
Blazing energy and virtuosity warms Downstage
Friday, 16 May 2008, 3:48 pm | Downstage Theatre
Downstage Theatre is proud to present the Wellington premiere season of acclaimed percussion group Strike’s brand new stage show Elemental. At its world premiere at the Erupt Festival in Taupo in May audiences responded with standing ovations ... More >>
Ginette McDonald returns to Downstage Theatre
Monday, 14 April 2008, 1:50 pm | Downstage Theatre
See Ginette McDonald starring in Downstage’s newest production My Brilliant Divorce, a hilarious one-woman tour de force. Wittily observant, achingly funny and heart-wrenchingly real, this comedy explores what life is like for Angela, recently dumped by her accountant ... More >>
Downstage picks best Fringe shows
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 1:27 pm | Downstage Theatre
Best of the Fringe Winner March of the Meeklings and two other sell-outs return for a very limited season only More >>
Pucker up your lips - here comes Marilyn!
Monday, 18 February 2008, 12:13 am | Downstage Theatre
DIRECT FROM AMERICA - experience two hours of intimacy with the actress who convinces you that she really is Marilyn Monroe. This is not an impersonator, but award-winning American actress Sunny Thompson, reprising the role that has heightened her to star ... More >>
Dress Up For Urinetown!
Friday, 23 November 2007, 2:24 pm | Downstage Theatre
To celebrate Downstage’s scintillating Christmas show Urinetown, we invite Wellingtonian’s to dress up a ‘wee bit over the top’ and attend an evening of mayhem, mirth and music! More >>
Urinetown The Musical
Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 10:43 am | Downstage Theatre
Hilarious, sassy and a wee bit over the top, Urinetown brilliantly satirises the kind of ecological crises, which are destined to dominate the 21st century. At the same time, it pokes cheerful fun at all the clichés of Broadway musicals and is ... More >>
Almost A Bird Theatre Collective presents
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:54 pm | Downstage Theatre
Award winning Almost A Bird Theatre Collective proudly presents Tony Kushner’s masterpiece Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches (winner of 1993 Pulitzer Price for best drama and Tony Award for best play) as part of the 2007 graduation ... More >>
Who Needs Sleep Anyway?
Friday, 10 August 2007, 3:15 pm | Downstage Theatre
New Zealand's best-known and most successful playwright, Roger Hall, joins forces with daughter Pip Hall for the first time to create this delightful comedic celebration of 100 years of bringing up babies in New Zealand. More >>
Jennifer Ward-Lealand in 'Falling in Love Again'
Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 2:13 pm | Downstage Theatre
Star of stage and screen, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, brings us a dazzling evening of cabaret and glamour from a time gone by in Falling in Love Again. More >>
Season Programme July - December 2007
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 9:26 am | Downstage Theatre
Falling in Again; Who Needs Sleep Anyway?; Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches; I'm Not Rappaport; Urinetown – the Musical; Eleventh Annual Adam Playreadings More >>
