New Zealand theatre and performing arts
A comprehensive list of websites
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Reviews
Theatre View
New Zealand performing arts reviews, with a directory of NZ theatre.
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Abbey Musical Theatre, Palmerston North
Archives, theatre history
Theatre Archives New Zealand
The New Zealand Theatre Archive, formed to help preserve and promote interest in New Zealand’s theatre heritage. Theatre Archives NZ supports theatre groups in the management and preservation of their archives.
Agents, organisations
Karen Kay Management
A New Zealand management agency.
New Zealand Actors Agents Guild
Drama New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education Drama New Zealand represents and advocates on behalf of drama teachers, academics, applied theatre workers and theatre in education practitioners at national and international forums and in education policy-making.
Cuba Creative
Cuba Creative is a performing arts and creative production house specialising in bringing arts-based projects and events to life in partnership with leading and emerging creators.
Actors Agents Association of New Zealand
Actors Agents Association of New Zealand
Artmedia. com.au.
Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Literary & Performing Arts
Auckland
Auckland Actors
Auckland actors and presenters, an online showcase.
Auckland Music Theatre
Auckland’s longest running musical theatre group.
Auckland Theatre Company
Established in 1992, Auckland Theatre Company is Auckland’s premier professional theatre company and one of the leading theatre companies in New Zealand. The Company presents a main bill season of seven to eight plays to over 80,000 people from throughout Auckland and the Upper North Island each year.
The Auckland Performing Arts Centre (TAPAC)
The Auckland Performing Arts Centre is comprised of two dedicated dance and drama studios, and a studio theatre with flexible seating for up to 144.
The centre is designed to foster a collaborative relationship between the different performing arts disciplines and to provide an environment for experimentation within the built fabric. Spaces can be adapted to engage with participants and observers in an intimate setting.
The Maidment Theatre, The University of Auckland
The Maidment Theatre, seating 448 and Musgrove Studio seating 104, offer clear and unimpeded views of the stage in air-conditioned comfort.
Catalyst Theatre Company
Adventurous theatre for a new generation.
Q Theatre
Unique to Q, within Auckland’s performance venues, is its structure and business case. Q is an independently owned and operated organisation founded by the Auckland Performing Arts Community, with the purpose of providing a hub for the performing arts in Auckland.
Theatre Scenes
James Wenley’s Auckland theater blog. Theatre Scenes is an independent and alternative blog for reviews, interviews, news and commentary of theatre productions in Auckland and beyond.
If you have a production you would like to be reviewed, or would like to suggest something to be featured on Theatre Scenes, please email.
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Blogs
Theatre View
The New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory. News, coming attractions, forums and reviews.
The Bruce Mason Theatre, Takapuna, Auckland
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Capital E National Theatre for Children, Wellington
A full-time professional theatre company creating, producing and touring innovative new works for children year round.
Casting
Talent Online
A searchable directory of screen, stage and event performing artists.
Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North
Children’s Theatre. Capital E
National Theatre for Children, Wellington.
Christchurch
Christchurch theatre and actor index.
Christchurch Drama Schools
Find Christchurch Drama Schools and more Vocational Training websites in Christchurch, New Zealand on NZS.com.
Comedy: New Zealand stand-up comedy, comedy films and TV
The Classic Comedy and Bar, Queen Street, Auckland
Covert Theatre, Karangahape Road, Auckland
Improvised and sketch comedy.
Watchme TV on Demand Comedy Channel
New Zealand International Comedy Festival
Mic Drop NZ. New Zealand comedians on YouTube.
The New Zealand Comedy Guild
offers a unified voice for comedians in their communications with other branches of the industry.
Companies
Catalyst Theatre Company, Auckland
Adventurous theatre for a new generation.
Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North.
Centrestage Theatre. Auckland.
An amateur theatre society in Orewa, Auckland.
Company Theatre, Belmont, Auckland.
A community theatre company.
Court Theatre, Christchurch.
Christchurch’s professional theatre company.
Covert Theatre, Karangahape Road, Auckland.
Improvised and sketch comedy. Workshops and liscensed cafe.
The Ellerslie Theatre Company, Auckland.
The Playground NZ
Specialising in award-winning visual and spatially considered performance productions the company has presented in New Zealand and Europe.
The Real Theatre Company, North Shore, Auckland
Bringing professional theatre to the North Shore.
Shakespeare Globe Theatre New Zealand
Titirangi Drama Inc, Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland
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Downstage Theatre,Wellington
A long-established professional theatre
Drama Christi Theatre,Wellington
An amateur theatre co-operative.
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The Ellerslie Theatre Company, Auckland
Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre,
an art gallery (as well as a centre for wider community use – theatre, cafe, etc), Upper Hutt, Wellington.
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Fortune Theatre, Dunedin
The Dunedin professional theatre company.
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Gryphon Theatre, Wellington
Stagecraft at the Gryphon Theatre.
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Hagley Theatre Company, Christchurch
History
New Zealand Theatre Archive
The New Zealand Theatre Archive, formed to help preserve and promote interest in New Zealand’s theatre heritage.
Howick Little Theatre, Auckland
Hurst, Michael. A Michael Hurst web site.
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International Drama/Theatre and Education Association
New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education
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Maidment Theatre, Auckland University
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National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, Christchurch
National Library of New Zealand theatre web directory.
New Zealand Drama School. Toi Whakaari
New Zealand Theatre Archive
The New Zealand Theatre Archive, formed to help preserve and promote interest in New Zealand’s theatre heritage.
North Shore, Auckland
The Bruce Mason Theatre, Takapuna.
The Pumphouse, Lake Pupuke, Takapuna.
OnStage
A website for anyone and everyone with aspirations to perform, sing, dance, direct, engineer, help out or in fact have anything at all to do with theatre. Visitors can also join the Onstage club and gain access to on-line reference material and make contact with other members. Includes an audition notice board.
Playwrights
Playmarket Online
New Zealand’s playwright agency and script advisory service. Search and access information on individual playwrights.
Playwrights Association of New Zealand (PANZ)
The aim of the Association is to foster the writing of plays through playwriting seminars, workshops, competitions, play Assessments and newsletters and to foster links between playwright members.
Auckland Playwrights Collective
New Zealand playwrights.
Wikipedia entries.
Drama New Zealand
Drama New Zealand is an association for teachers, youth theatre and theatre in education practitioners interested in promoting the recognition, study and development of drama in education from early childhood to tertiary education.
The Pumphouse, Lake Pupuke, Takapuna, Auckland.
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Red Mole. An article by Terry Snow.
Reviews
Theatre View
The New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory
Theatre news and reviews from The NZ Herald.
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Schools
Drama Schools in New Zealand. Websites for Vocational Training, a Database.
www.nzs.com
Drama schools in New Zealand
Wikipedia entries.
Auckland
Auckland City Theatre Academy
A leading performing arts academy in Auckland.
The Performance.net
Offering dance and drama classes throughout the Greater Auckland region, for people of all ages and abilities.
Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School, Newton.
Christchurch
Christchurch Drama Schools – Websites for Vocational Training
NZS.com
Top Dog Theatre
The theatre company has been involved in a number of productions since 2003 and also offers drama courses for young people.
Hagley Theatre Company
Performing arts courses, located in Christchurch.
Waikato
Waikato Performing Arts Academy
Wellington
1st Gear Productions
Ist Gear Productions is a theatre company for ages 8 to 18 that provides drama classes for children and young adults.
New Zealand Drama School. Toi Whakaari
Victoria University, Wellington. Theatre programme.
Wellington Performing Arts Centre
The Wellington Performing Arts Centre is dedicated to offering innovative tertiary training programmes in the performing arts.
Shakespeare Globe New Zealand
The Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand Inc exists to promote, encourage and facilitate the performance, appreciation and study of the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries.T
Talent Online
A searchable directory of screen, stage and event performing artists.
Theatre web links. New Zealand theatre venues.
Te Puna
Theatres, venues
Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, Auckland
Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North
Covert Theatre, Karangahape Road, Auckland
Howick Little Theatre, Auckland
The Maidment Theatre, The University of Auckland
Massey High School’s Bruce Ritchie Performing Arts Centre, Auckland
The centre is located at the front of the school at 274 Don Buck Rd, Massey and is ideal for music, dance and drama productions, conferences, theatre groups, art exhibitions, workshops and film, video or television production.
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington. Includes 19 venues.
Q Theatre
Unique to Q, within Auckland’s performance venues, is its structure and business case. Q is an independently owned and operated organisation founded by the Auckland Performing Arts Community, with the purpose of providing a hub for the performing arts in Auckland.
The Pumphouse, Lake Pupuke, Takapuna, Auckland.
Titirangi Drama Inc, Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland.
Dedicated to offering the highest quality live theatre possible while retaining the unique, almost intimate environment which only amateur productions
can provide.
Venue Web
A database of New Zealand theatre and performance venues, spaces, with architectural drawings in CAD / dxf form.
Wellington Performing Arts Centre
Wellington College of Performing Arts
Theatresports.co.nz:
Home of improvised Theatresports in New Zealand. Includes a special section on Theatersports for schools/youth.
Titirangi Drama Inc, Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland
Dedicated to offering the highest quality live theatre possible while retaining the unique, almost intimate environment which only amateur productions
can provide.
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Venue hire
Venue Hire
Venue Hire offers a very comprehensive selection of New Zealand venues for hire. In particular they have139 options for exhibitions and 55 for shows. Free listings for theatre groups, clubs, and associations.
Venue Web
A database of New Zealand theatre and performance venues, spaces, with architectural drawings in CAD / dxf form.
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Waikato Performing Arts Academy
Ward-Lealand. Jennifer. A Jennifer-Ward Lealand website.
Wellington
Cuba Creative
Cuba Creative is a performing arts and creative production house specializing in bringing arts-based projects and events to life in partnership with leading and emerging creators.
St James Theatre and Opera House
Belfrey Theatre, home to the Wellington Theatre Company
Michael Fowler Centre. Includes 19 venues.
Wellington Performing Arts Centre
The Wellington Performing Arts Centre is dedicated to offering nnovative tertiary training programmes in the performing arts.