Pōneke performing arts May 27-June 2, 2024
Nau mai, haere mai to my weekly round-up of every public performing arts event in Pōneke/Wellington (that I know of). I list the next 4 weeks of shows below, and also keep a chronological spreadsheet for the rest of 2024.
Recently announced
Toi Whakaari present The Undertow: The Ragged and The Undertow: Dog & Bone, the first two instalments of writer Helen Pearse-Otene’s quartet of plays about Wellington, as part of their Term 2 productions.
BATS Theatre has announced that they are partnering with artists to produce Audio Described and Captioned Live Streamed shows this year. The first of these have been announced on their website.
The NZ Comedy Festival wrapped over the weekend, with newly anointed Fred Award winners Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan, Billy T Award winner Lana Walters, Best Newcomer Auckland Courtney Dawson, and Best Newcomer Wellington Samuel Gebreselassie.
This week
Continuing this week are Roger Hall’s End of Summer Time and Stuart McKenzie’s Transmission: Beta at Circa.
Also on are: ShowQuest, the Victoria Ancient Theatre Society’s Iphigeneia at Aulis, Vic Uni Theatre’s The Rover, Fingal Pollock and friends’ Femme Natale - The Queen Years, Wellington Repertory Theatre’s The Misadventures of Peter & Tinkerbell, and the Wellington stop of Ben Hurley: Houses of the Holy.
* = continuation of season
Advisory: Please double check the dates/times/venues of events when you book tickets!
Mon 27 May-Sun 2 June
Mon 27 & Tue 28 May, 7pm - ShowQuest @ St James Theatre
Tue 28 May-Sat 1 Jun, 6pm - Iphigeneia at Aulis | Victoria Ancient Theatre Society @ BATS Theatre
*Tue 28 May-Sat 15 Jun, various times - Transmission: Beta | Stuart McKenzie @ Circa Theatre
Tue 28 May-Sat 1 Jun, 6:30pm (& 2pm Sat) - The Rover | Victoria University Te Whare Ngangahau 3rd year students @ Studio 77 (VUW)
*Tue 28 May-Sat 15 Jun, 7:30pm (4pm Sun) - End of Summer Time | Roger Hall @ Circa Theatre
Tue 28 May-Sat 1 Jun, 8pm - Femme Natale - The Queen Years | Femme Natale (Fingal Pollock) @ BATS Theatre
Wed 29 May-Sat 8 Jun, various times - The Misadventures of Peter & Tinkerbell | Wellington Repertory Theatre @ Gryphon Theatre
Thu 30 May, 7:30pm - Ben Hurley: Houses of the Holy @ San Fran
Mon 3-Sun 9 June
*Tue 4-Sat 8 Jun, 6:30pm (2pm Sat) - The Misadventures of Peter & Tinkerbell | Wellington Repertory Theatre @ Gryphon Theatre
*Tue 4-Sat 15 Jun, various times - Transmission: Beta | Stuart McKenzie @ Circa Theatre
Tue 4 Jun, 7:30pm - Ballroom Blitz | Base Entertainment @ Opera House
*Tue 4-Sat 15 Jun, 7:30pm (4pm Sun) - End of Summer Time | Roger Hall @ Circa Theatre
Wed 5-Sun 9 Jun, 6:30pm (& 4pm Sun) - Confessions of a Sleepwalking Insomniac | Helen Vivienne Fletcher @ BATS Theatre
Wed 5-Sun 9 Jun, 7:30pm (3pm Sun) - I Carried This | Nicola Pauling @ Hannah Playhouse
Sun 9-Tue 21 Jun - Lōemis Festival
Mon 10-Sun 16 June
*Mon 10-Tue 21 Jun - Lōemis Festival
*Tue 11-Sat 15 Jun, various times - Transmission: Beta | Stuart McKenzie @ Circa Theatre
*Tue 11-Sat 15 Jun, 7:30pm (4pm Sun) - End of Summer Time | Roger Hall @ Circa Theatre
Tue 11-Sat 15 Jun, 7:30pm - FWB: Friends with Boundaries | Leona Revell, Regan Taylor, Lizzie Tollemache @ BATS Theatre
Wed 12-Sat 15 Jun, 6pm - The Cabin | Best on Tap @ BATS Theatre
Thu 13 & Sat 15 Jun, 7:30pm - Le comte Ory | NZ Opera @ St James Theatre
Fri 14-Wed 19 Jun, 5:30pm - The Undertow: The Ragged | Toi Whakaari 2nd & 3rd year students @ Te Whaea
Fri 14-Wed 19 Jun, 9pm - The Undertow: Dog and Bone | Toi Whakaari 2nd & 3rd year students @ Te Whaea
Sat 15 Jun, 7:30pm - Forest Song & Don Quixote | Grand Kyiv Ballet @ Opera House
Mon 17-Sun 23 June
*Mon 17-Tue 21 Jun - Lōemis Festival
*Tue 18-Wed 19 Jun, 5:30pm - The Undertow: The Ragged | Toi Whakaari 2nd & 3rd year students @ Te Whaea
Tue 18-Sat 22 Jun, 6:30pm (& 4pm Sat) - Hector | Hebe Productions @ BATS Theatre
Tue 18-Sun 23 Jun, 7:30pm (& 2pm Sat/Sun) - Heartbreak Hotel | EBKM @ BATS Theatre
*Tue 18-Wed 19 Jun, 9pm - The Undertow: Dog and Bone | Toi Whakaari 2nd & 3rd year students @ Te Whaea
Wed 19-Sat 29 Jun, various times - The Tiwhas: A Matariki Spectacular @ Circa Theatre
Sat 22 Jun, 10am-2pm - Breaking Ground 2024: Rehearsed Readings | Tawata Productions @ Te Auaha
Sat 22 & 29, 7:30pm Sun 23 & 30, 3pm Jun - When Harriet Met Sally | New Players Theatre Company @ Newlands Community Centre
Sun 23 Jun, 2pm - Glimpses (play reading) | Kavanah Productions @ Hannah Playhouse
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