New Zealand International Arts Festival - Latest News [Page 4]
Whales, Time Travel in Writers and Readers Week
Friday, 5 February 2010, 12:24 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Three celebrated international authors are now joining award-winning New Zealand writers in an already glittering line-up at the 2010 New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week from 9-14 March. More >>
The Man in Black: The Johnny Cash Story
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 1:06 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Following sold-out seasons in Melbourne and Brisbane and an extended run in Sydney, Tex Perkins takes the stage at the Pacific Blue Festival Club as the legendary Johnny Cash in a show which traces the compelling life story of the hard-living hero of ... More >>
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra & St. Vincent
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 3:09 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival has announced two new acts for its 2010 line up at the Pacific Blue Festival Club - the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra from Brooklyn, New York and award winning indie singer-songwriter St. Vincent. Tickets ... More >>
Dance Work for Young and Old
Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 5:46 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“It’s hard to conceive of anyone – of any age – not loving Echoa...” – Living Scotsman More >>
Press Kit: 2010 NZ International Arts Festival
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4:16 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Orchestra Breaks Baroque Music Out of the Box
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4:04 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
One of the world’s most popular Baroque ensembles makes its Australasian debut during the New Zealand International Arts Festival in 2010 with its energetic interpretation of classical and contemporary music. More >>
13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Warhol’s Screen Test
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4:03 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
When Dean Wareham brings 13 Most Beautiful ... to the New Zealand International Arts Festival next March he will be performing in his home town for the first time. More >>
Four Superstar Jazz Women Salute Nina Simone
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4:01 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A supernova line up of four of the world’s great female vocalists – Dianne Reeves, Patti Austin, Lizz Wright and Simone - pay homage to the one and only Nina Simone in Sing The Truth: Nina Simone Remembered. More >>
New Zealand at Last for Baroque Pop Star
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4:00 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
When Rufus Wainwright takes the stage at the Wellington Town Hall for the New Zealand International Arts Festival next year it will be solo with a Steinway D grand piano. More >>
Shaun Tan’s Book Arrives On Stage at NZIAF
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:58 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Creators Kate Parker and Julie Nolan combine visual and physical theatre to draw in all senses and tell the story of a character who is forced to leave his home country and create a new life in a strange world. This character is met with strange customs, ... More >>
A Play Without Words Set Behind The Iron Curtain
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:57 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“The 14 actors recreate amusingly and with precision that period of blissful innocence and inoffensive hysteria in the search for happiness” Le Courrier de Russie More >>
Galloping Irish Comedy Heading To The NZIAF
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:56 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Celebrated Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s devastatingly funny play The Walworth Farce is on the largest international tour for a new work in recent times, and it’s heading to the New Zealand International Arts Festival for 2010. More >>
Powerhouse Play from Theatre Company TR Warszawa
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:55 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Europe’s trailblazing theatre company TR Warszawa and its white hot writer-director Grzegorz Jarzyna bring their latest work T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. to the New Zealand International Arts Festival next March. More >>
Iconoclastic Director Debuts His Latest Play In NZ
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:54 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Legendary theatre director Peter Brook is currently in rehearsal with his latest work Eleven and Twelve ahead of its world premiere in Paris at the end of November, then subsequent tour to Poland and London then direct to the New Zealand International ... More >>
High flying Swedish Circus
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:53 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Sweden’s Cirkus Cirkör brings its hit show, The TV3 Season of Inside out, to the New Zealand International Arts Festival with jaw-dropping athletics and playful magical storytelling that is all about the human heart and “something as simple as life.” More >>
A Journey through Faith and Imagination
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:52 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Direct from the original Shaolin Temple in China, Saholin warrior monks perform the breathtaking dance work Sutra by of one of Europe’s most exciting choreographer-dancers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in its only Australasian performances at the New Zealand International ... More >>
the World with the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:51 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The opening of New Zealand’s International Arts Festival on February 26 will gather together one of New Zealand’s largest ever orchestral and choral polyphonies for Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 lead by world renowned conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. More >>
New Dance Programme Defies Borders
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:50 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Dancers from China, the UK, France, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia push the edges of dance and the limits of the human body at the next 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival. More >>
Students Get Unparalleled Access to NZIAF
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:49 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“We have a strong commitment to make the New Zealand International Arts Festival an educational environment for New Zealand’s artists and technicians of the future, and we invite schools throughout New Zealand to consider SchoolFest for their 2010 ... More >>
Special Programme for Kids at the NZIAF
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:47 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
From Roald Dahl stories set to chamber music, theatre, dance, kids’ films, workshops and storytelling, Kids on Sundays offers loads of fun for kids of all ages. More >>