Auckland Theatre Company

Auckland Theatre Company prepares to celebrate 30-year milestone

In 2023, we celebrate 30 years of storytelling in Tāmaki Makaurau. 🌟

Artistic Director & CEO, Jonathan Bielski, caught up with MiNDFOOD to share our 2023 Season. 🎭

"The thing that was front of mind as we were putting together [2023] was that simultaneous thing of wanting to look backwards and celebrate what it is that we’ve achieved together as a company and as an audience and as a community, but also looking forward." - Jonathan Bielski

Read more: https://bit.ly/3BRw6GT

Auckland Theatre Company prepares to celebrate 30-year milestone After a couple of years disrupted by COVID-19, Auckland Theatre Company is presenting an exciting programme of theatre in 2023.

💖 Meet the cast of The Heartbreak Choir playing a group of Aussie oddballs that find friendship and healing through music and community.

🎫 Single tickets are now on sale!
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🎭 The Heartbreak Choir by Aidan Fennessy
📅 14 Feb - 4 Mar 2023
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

🎭 Mufrida Hayes, Kate Louise Elliott, Munashe Tapfuya, Jodie Dorday, Esmay August, Levi Kereama, David Fane.

👏👏👏 Congrats to our inaugural Youth Company who last night premiered Manatees, a new play by Dan Goodwin!

A huge amount of mahi was put in by these rangatahi and they should be proud as punch.

Manatees captures the feeling of living in 2022; scrolling through social media and finding comfort in memes, while hunting out vital moments of human connection.

🎟️ Tickets still available for tonight, Thur 15 Dec.
Entry by koha with all proceeds going to
Book now at http://bit.ly/3YvsTGE
🎭 Manatees by Dan Goodwin, directed by Keagan Carr Fransch
📍

📸 Megan Goldsman

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“The only thing better than singing is more singing”. – Ella Fitzgerald 🎉 Happy World Choral Day 🎉 A day that celebrates bringing people together through the power of music 🎼

🎭 The Heartbreak Choir by Aidan Fennessy
🎟️ Book now at http://bit.ly/3iUwXQs
📅 14 Feb - 4 Mar
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre
📷 Tony Drayton

A play about mental health and .

Manatees is a hilarious, interactive new production that captures the feeling of living in 2022, scrolling through social media and finding comfort in memes while searching for human connection.

Don't miss seeing the Auckland Theatre Youth Company on stage next week!

🎟️ Entry by koha with all proceeds going to .nz
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🎭 Manatees by Dan Goodwin, directed by Keagan Carr Fransch
📅 14 - 16 Dec
📍 TAPAC (The Auckland Performing Arts Centre)

🎨 Hamish Parkinson - Hungry Peach Boy

See the next generation of theatre makers in action 🔥

After a year of training, the first Auckland Theatre Youth Company will perform Manatees - a hilarious, heartfelt, contemporary and interactive amalgamation of short scenes that add up to an epic, beautiful collage of modern life.

🎟️ Entry by koha with all proceeds going to Changing Minds
Book tickets now http://bit.ly/3P5y9fP
🎭 Manatees by Dan Goodwin, directed by Keagan Carr Fransch
📅 14 - 16 Dec
📍 TAPAC The Auckland Performing Arts Centre

🎭 Auckland Theatre Youth Company in rehearsals.

📣 FINAL CALL TO JOIN OUR BOARD 📣

Are you passionate about performing arts and would like to help shape and lead Auckland Theatre Company?

We are seeking expressions of interests to fill two sector vacancies on the Board. Applicants should have live performing arts experience, not necessarily theatre, and bring their skills, experience and perspective to a Board that strives to reflect the diverse communities of Tāmaki Makaurau.

To find out more, please visit: http://bit.ly/3V7lXxo
Applications close Friday 9 December at 5pm.

🎭 Opening Night audience at The Haka Party Incident by Katie Wolfe at ASB Waterfront Theatre, 2021.
📷 Jinki Cambronero

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🎉Huge congratulations to Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken, this year's winners of the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award!

Eleanor and Karin are the co-creators of Yes Yes Yes, a funny and innovative piece of contemporary theatre about healthy relationships, desire and consent on at ASB Waterfront Theatre 28 Feb - 1 Mar.

🎭 Yes Yes Yes by Eleanor Bishop & Karin McCracken
🎫 Book tickets now at atc.co.nz
📅 28 Feb - 1 Mar
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

Patricia Highsmith, the best-selling author of Talented Mr. Ripley, is living as a recluse in the Swiss Alps. But now, there is a young man, sent by her publisher, standing in her study who refuses to leave.🔪

Crackling with intelligence and bristling with tension, Switzerland is an enthralling meta-thriller underpinned with cunning twists and a knockout performance by the great Sarah Peirse.

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🎭 Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith
📅 19 Sep - 7 Oct
📍

🎭 Sarah Peirse
📷 Tony Drayton

Adapted from Dr David Galler’s best-selling memoir, Things That Matter is a love letter to resilience, to our healthcare system, its patients and the essential workers, who treat every life as valuable. 🏥

A tender and articulate account of the compassion and change needed in New Zealand’s health system. 💙

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🎭 Things That Matter by Gary Henderson. Adapted from the memoir by David Galler
📅 11 - 26 Aug
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

🎭 David Aston, Jen Huang, Ian Hughes, Margaret-Mary Hollins, Vaiari Ivirangi, Greg Johnson, Nicola Kāwana, Shaan Kesha, Donogh Rees, Elsie Ropati, Aleni Tufuga
📷 Tony Drayton

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest - Board of Directors 📢

As we enter our 30th year of operation, we are seeking expressions of interest from passionate people to help shape and lead the company at governance level.

The Board is seeking to fill two sector vacancies on the Board. These vacancies are specifically for people with live performing arts experience. Your artform doesn’t have to be theatre, what we want are people who bring skills, experience, and perspective. Importantly, we are striving to have a Board that reflects the diversity of communities that make up Auckland.

To find out more, please visit: http://bit.ly/3V7lXxo

Please submit your Expression of Interest by sending a cover letter and your CV to Natasha Pearce [email protected].

Applications close Friday 9 December at 5pm.

It is fight or die in the underbelly world of illicit rice-dealing. 🍚

When retired fighter, Shiva, is dragged into the world of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighting, the last thing they expect is to be embroiled in the contraband black market 💥

Full of whacky fourth-wall-breaking characters, slick dance and stage combat, Basmati B*tch transports us to a heightened reality of contested borders, exploited migrant workers and a crumbling empire.

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🎭 Basmati Bitch by Ankita Singh
A collaboration between SquareSums&Co , Oriental Maidens and Auckland Theatre Company.
📅 11 - 23 Jul
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One of Shakespeare's greatest plays, starring acting royalty Michael Hurst, comes to ASB Waterfront Theatre in 2023. 🎭

Having built an empire, the aging Lear is poised to abdicate his crown. When he challenges his children to compete for his land, his favourite refuses to play the game... 👑

Tender, moving, humbling, King Lear navigates the complexities of human nature like no other piece of storytelling. 👏

A powerful and poetic masterpiece brought to life in a majestic production. Expect everything.

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🎭 King Lear by William Shakespeare
📅 13 Jun - 1 Jul
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

🎭 Michael Hurst
📷 Tony Drayton

Witi's Wāhine is a tribute to the phenomenal women of Witi Ihimaera's writing with powerful commentary, unflinching reality, sensitivity and warm affection that places wāhine, whenua and Māori wisdom centre stage.

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🎭 Witi's Wāhine by Nancy Brunning
📅 2 - 20 May
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

🎭 Roimata Fox, Awhina-Rose Henare Ashby, Pehia King and Olivia Violet Robinson-Falconer

'sWāhine

In rural Australia, a bunch of misfits find their perfect harmony. 🎶

There’s been a bit of drama in the local choir. Splintering off from the original group, a small band of oddballs have gathered in a quintessentially country town hall to begin again. 🎭

All they need now is a song to sing. Will our heroes find a way to harmonise? 🎹

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🎫 Single tickets for The Heartbreak Choir go on sale Tues 29 Nov.
🎭 The Heartbreak Choir by Aidan Fennessy
📅 14 Feb - 4 Mar 2023
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

🎭 Esmay August, Jodie Dorday, Kate Louise Elliott, Semu Filipo, Mufrida Hayes, Levi Kereama, Munashe Tapfuya
📷 Tony Drayton

👏👏👏 Ngā mihi and congratulations to the cast, crew and creatives of North by Northwest!

For the past three and a half weeks, this brilliant team have dazzled over 11,000 people in Tāmaki Makaurau and what a whirlwind it has been!

From high-speed car chases to dramatic cliff-hanging moments (literally) THANK YOU for giving audiences the theatrical tonic we all need.

🎭 Ryan O’Kane, Antonia Prebble, Mustaq Missouri, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, Jonathan Martin, Michèle Hine, Andrew Grainger, Roy Snow, Wesley Dowdell, Nicola Kāwana, Mel Odedra, Alvin Maharaj, Jessie Lawrence, Daniel Watterson, Andrew Laing, Kevin Keys, Cameron Rhodes

📸 Andi Crown

Planes onstage: How iconic North by Northwest scenes were brought to theatre

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🎭 North by Northwest, adapted by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips
📅 Season must close 19 Nov
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre

Planes onstage: How iconic North by Northwest scenes were brought to theatre Aeroplanes aren’t an easy thing to show onstage, but Auckland Theatre Company was determined to make it work for North by Northwest.

📢 A new season of plays to suit every taste and preference.

Comedy ✅ Thriller ✅ Shakespeare ✅ Real-life stories ✅

🌟 From musical comedy The Heartbreak Choir to psychological thriller Switzerland; new futuristic comedy Basmati Bitch to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays King Lear; and the much-awaited return to the stage Witi's Wāhine and Things That Matter - there's a play for everyone to enjoy in 2023.

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🦻 Get your blind and low-vision whānau amongst the action.

The audio-described performance of North by Northwest on Wednesday 16 November will relay live commentary of what's happening on stage to blind & low-vision patrons in the audience.

Patrons with access tickets can join the touch-tour to explore the set, touch props and familiarize themselves with the visual and sensory materials of the production.

🎫 $20 access tickets and companion tickets available. To book, email [email protected]. Find out more from atc.co.nz/access/
🎭 North by Northwest, adapted by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips
📅 Audio-described performance: Wed 16 Nov 7pm
📍

🎭 Ryan O'Kane
📸 Andi Crown

All of our mainstage shows have audio-described and NZSL-Interpreted performances, proudly presented by Dentons Kensington Swan

Review: Theatrical adaptation of Hitchcock classic needs to be seen to be believed

nzherald.co.nz review is in! 💯

"needs to be witnessed to be believed."
"the myriad of tricks and surprises something only a true theatrical genius can pull off."
"a truly dynamic pairing and capture the essence of those classic American screen stars."

Read more: http://bit.ly/3fMt9jk

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🎭 North by Northwest, adapted by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips
📅 Until 19 Nov 2022
📍

Review: Theatrical adaptation of Hitchcock classic needs to be seen to be believed ATC's end of year blockbuster brings a Kiwi theatre legend back home.

Perfect for audiences of all ages - the stunning sets, laugh-out-loud moments and clever staging of North by Northwest has captivated audiences young and old.

📢30 & Under? Tickets from $30!

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🎭 North by Northwest, adapted by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips
📅 Until 19 Nov 2022
📍

🎭 Michèle Hine, Ryan O'Kane, Antonia Prebble
📸 Andi Crown

Keep your eyes on the side of the stage to see a whole other show unfolding. 👀

Not only are the actors leading the action on stage, they're operating models on the side of stage which are projected onto the screen. 👏

📢 Audiences are loving every second!

"Visuals were outstanding."
"Loved the set and the acting and actually seeing the special effects being created. It was fun."
"The multimedia was spectacular."

🎫 NOW ON! Book tickets: http://bit.ly/3E3bcGs
🎭 North by Northwest, adapted by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips
📅 Until 19 Nov
📍

🎭 Roy Snow, Haanz Fa'avae-Jackson
📷 Andi Crown