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 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.
The Music Portrait of a Humble Disabled Samoan starts with a moment that changed a life. In 2005, Fonotī Pati Umaga experienced what first seemed like a minor accident — a simple slip and fall, something many people have encountered. What appeared insignificant at the time became event that altered the course of his life […]
La Ronde holds the drama of extraordinary beauty and sensuality — a celebration of the human body and how good it looks when its doing its thing. Five-time festival favourites brought their brilliance again — aach international performer delivering something spectacular, hovering in the balance betwixt circus and cabaret, between athleticism and sensuality.
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.
HR The Musical #2, the sequel to 2004’s big hit, revealed Human Resources for its irredeemable double-speak: how inhuman and unresourceful “human resources” are; how impersonal are the Personnel Department where, due to “privacy concerns,” employees are referred to only as numbers.
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 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 gives us a 185-year-old woman born on the day the Treaty of Waitangi was signed.
Open Late: In the Web of Louise Bourgeois marked the Auckland Art Gallery’s new exhibition Louise Bourgeois: In Private View, which runs to 17 May 2026.