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Unitec Dance Showcase 2024

Auckland

14/11/2024 - 17/11/2024

"Exploration of our reverence for resilience..

CAMPING

Auckland

23/04/2016 - 07/12/2024

"Firing on all cylinders, hilarious, joyful, a perfect tonic – go see it!..

"A highly effective antidote..

INVISIBLE

Dunedin

14/11/2024 - 17/11/2024

"Stories interesting or touching in detailed candidness..

How To Art

Auckland

12/11/2024 - 16/11/2024

"Relentlessly funny and splendidly performed by the best bananas in the art business...

A Doll's House, Part 2

Auckland

14/11/2024 - 01/12/2024

"Thought-provoking and modern take on Ibsen's original...

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Royal New Zealand Ballet

Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Palmerston North, Auckland

12/10/2024 - 12/11/2024

"The perfect storm of enchantment..

"Taonga of the Royal NZ Ballet’s repertoire..

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Celtic Illusion

Wellington

09/11/2024 - 09/11/2024

"Family friendly, professionally impressive show..

Show Do Café

Palmerston North, Tauranga, Wellington

18/10/2024 - 06/11/2024

"People and coffee are everything..

The Tempestuous

Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington

13/06/2023 - 01/12/2024

"Ashton conjures a tale that’s as salutary as it is richly entertaining..

"Phenomenal energy, vivacity, versatility, inventiveness and humour..

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Raru e Maruakaītā

Auckland

01/11/2024 - 02/11/2024

"Powerful imagery and great performances in this traditional Kūki Airani fable...

Moon

Tauranga, Nelson

28/10/2023 - 03/11/2024

"Unworldly, involving, humorous, engrossing, joyful..

"Two dads creating a show that their kids and their kids pals might like..

Prima Facie - Dunedin

Dunedin

31/10/2024 - 17/11/2024

"A brave, mighty achievement..

Hardly Workin'!

Wellington

31/10/2024 - 02/11/2024

"Child-like absurdity with a twinkly eye of menace..

The Kingdom of Bling

Auckland, Wellington

22/10/2024 - 22/10/2024

"A salutary and timely folk tale plus random fandom..

"A truly original experience hosted by a great entertainer..

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PRIMA FACIE

Wellington, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Nelson

24/06/2023 - 01/11/2024

"The judicial system masterfully examined and embodied..

"Cracking courtroom tour-de-force mentally and emotionally spellbinding..

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Suitcase Show

Wellington, Nelson

29/02/2024 - 30/10/2024

"Enchanting, magical stories of love, climate change, obsession and death..

"Satisfaction in having our senses well tricked and inventively strummed..

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AIGA

Auckland, Nelson

20/03/2024 - 29/10/2024

"Well-deserved standing ovation for thought provoking, masterful and moving show..

"Superpower - held in utopic limbo space..

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Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer

Dunedin

12/10/2024 - 12/10/2024

"Humorous celebration of Regency romance ‘queen’..

"Impeccably researched and devised, entertains and enchants with literary and comic supremacy..

DAWN RAIDS

Auckland, Wellington

18/08/2022 - 24/10/2024

"The impact of the Dawn Raids, laid bare through lives of one Pasifika family..

"A classic that needs to be seen by every generation of New Zealanders..

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