The Pogues – NZICC Theatre: April 11, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review)
The Pogues played Auckland’s newly-minted International Convention Centre last night. Theatre Peter was there to review both.
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The Worm – Te Pou Theatre: April 8, 2026 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
The Worm takes over Henderson’s Te Pou Theatre to tell a tall tale especially crafted for your child’s school holiday. With the added bonus of a master musician in the chair.
Becoming Jeff Bezos – Q Theatre Loft: March 13, 2025 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
Becoming Jeff Bezos puts two characters on stage with two contrasting takes on a dystopic Aotearoa after the climate apocalypse has hit. When they confront each other, sparks fly.
A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) – Q Theatre: March 12, 2026 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen starts with the personable Josh Hinton recounting his journey of discovery about himself, his culture, and his place in the world — and ends with a good feed of One-Pot Chicken Curry. Hard to complain really, unless you’re the one vegetarian in the audience who’d like just a little […]
Waiora Te Ūkaipõ – The Homeland – ASB Waterfront Theatre: March 6, 2026 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
Waiora Te Ūkaipõ – The Homeland is a revival of a by now celebrated play, first performed to great acclaim in 1996. Since then it has travelled widely, and been taught in school curricula. I fear however that it was a 30-year old story back then, and is now being revived thirty years too late.
WET – Te Pou Theatre: March 5, 2026 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
WET welcomes you to a world of “cliterature,” fun and whanau. Which don’t always mix, we discover. Turns out that mixture creates some angst to negotiate too.
Genuine and Stable – Herald Theatre, 9-13 Dec (13th Floor Theatre Review)
Genuine and Stable is a sympathetic look at a shitty situation: an immigrant judged not by her peers, but by strangers—and on the basis of a private relationship which is nobody’s business but their own, but which must be recorded and questioned.
Life On A Loop – Q Theatre: November 11, 2025 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
Life on a Loop brings theatre icon Ellie Smith back to the local stage for the first time in 17 years with her award-winning solo show, direct from London, throwing us with humour and heart straight into a care home. And if you’re in the right demographic, it zings!
The Dry House, by Eugene O’Hare – Basement Theatre: 4-15 November
The Dry House is confronting. We’re greeted with a small suburban lounge, a house full of debris, a selection of empty bottles, and Alison Bruce with a bad case of the shakes.
Tiri: Te Araroa, Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera & Auckland Theatre Company, at ASB Waterfront Theatre
Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking gives us a 185-year-old woman born on the day the Treaty of Waitangi was signed.