Katie Flood

The world's most magical musical arrives at The Civic, Auckland this October. Based on the beloved books by P.L. Travers and the 1964 Walt Disney film, the multi-award winning musical MARY POPPINS will play The Civic, Auckland for a strictly limited season.

Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp. Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, shifts from 1958 to the present and back again in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion.

A true story - eye-opening, hilarious and moving - of love, life, laughter and sex.

Abigail Greenwood won the Hackman Theatre award for Best Newcomer Director in 2012. Q theatre put up part of the prize package for this award. Now she brings The Triumphants to Q from the 9th to the 18th of August.

Short+Sweet Theatre, the largest ten minute theatre Festival in the world, is returning to Auckland in September 2012. Each year Short+Sweet Theatre showcases hundreds of ten minute plays across the globe produced by some of the most talented local actors and directors.

Having swept the 2010 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and won universal acclaim touring the Pacific Rim, one of New Zealand theatre's most stunning and innovative works returns to Auckland for three shows only!

From the creators of hit Broadway musicals BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE LITTLE MERMAID, comes LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, a mad cap, delightfully scary and quirky joy of a musical, that's a treat for the whole family.

A tale of light, love and courage, as two worlds join through the mind of one man. Henry is a writer and recluse. His heroine, Lumina, lives in a papery world. When Lumina takes refuge in Henry's room from a dark force threatening to destroy her, reality blurs with fiction and their lives are changed forever.

Auckland Theatre Company presents the debut of 'Next Big Thing', a year-long youth company which provides young actors with a bridge between school and full-time industry training. Youth aged 15 - 25 auditioned in March this year to take part in the festival where new talent and works are fostered and developed. As part of the programme July brings the performance of a new musical CHECKOUT CHICKS and Poly Stenham's play TUSK TUSK.

MOONSHADOW, the world premiere musical based around the music of Cat Stevens/Yusuf currently playing at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne has announced its imminent closure, four weeks ahead of schedule.

Stardome Observatory and Planetarium presents Jeff Wayne's musical version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, A Live Planetarium Experience (Under License), November 9 through to 16 December at the Stardome, Auckland.

The name Agatha Christie is in itself a guarantee of excellence in the murder/mystery genre. Ten people have been invited to a house party on isolated Smugglers Island off the coast of Devon. A curious assortment of strangers cut off from civilization and cut off from everything but each other and the shadows of their own past lives…

Playhouse Theatre Inc. presents CAROUSEL playing now through to the 21st at Playhouse Theatre, Auckland.

Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp. Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, shifts from 1958 to the present and back again in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion.

The world's most magical musical arrives at The Civic, Auckland this October. Based on the beloved books by P.L. Travers and the 1964 Walt Disney film, the multi-award winning musical MARY POPPINS will play The Civic, Auckland for a strictly limited season.

Having swept the 2010 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and won universal acclaim touring the Pacific Rim, one of New Zealand theatre's most stunning and innovative works returns to Auckland for three shows only!

Backyard Theatre presents IMMACULATE by Oliver Lansley, directed by Melanie Camp.

New York. 1880's. The dawning of the electrical age. In a seemingly perfect Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating hysteria in women - 'the vibrator' - with which he has achieved remarkable results.

When Lia and Nick's son disappears at the time of the Bali bombings in 1992, all they have is an email that he was thinking of going to Jakarta, leaving them with their own grief and uncertainty. And just when they think they have exhausted all channels in trying to discover his whereabouts - the phone rings and it seems Adam has been found. Or has he?

One of the most controversial pieces of modern theatre becomes one of Silo's fundraising one-offs.