Chairs! – Basement Theatre: November 14, 2023
CHAIRS! starts off like a long-lost episode of the The Twilight Zone, yet unfortunately doesn’t really know how to finish.
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How To Throw A Chinese Funeral – Basement Theatre: October 3, 2023 (Theatre Review)
How to Throw a Chinese Funeral is an immigrant story that asks if the migrant can ever really go home. Told through the travails of one family’s three generations gathering for a funeral, it dives dangerously close to melodrama before emerging as a commentary on the enduring strength of family and women’s place in a […]
An Imposter – Basement Theatre: August 29, 2023
An Imposter is a song cycle and melodrama by Ron Gallipoli, at the Basement Theatre. It may begin as melodrama, but ends as something entirely more penetrating.
Theatre Review: First World Problems 3.0 at Basement Theatre, 13 April 2021
It’s a large, vibrant and predominantly young ensemble cast that present this version of First World Problems, with scripts written during the strange and ominous year of pandemic and lockdown. Exuberance and humour sit next to heartbreak and remorse. Along with the bleeding out of identity and personality.
Basement Theatre Presents Digging to Cambodia
Multi-Award winning writer and actor Sarita Keo Kossamak So will be shaking up the floors of Auckland in March at Basement Theatre with her latest show Digging to Cambodia. Smashing together text, movement, AV and karaoke, this contemporary performance finally makes it’s Auckland premiere following from it’s critically acclaimed sell out season at Kia Mau […]
2021 Pride & Fringe at Basement Theatre
Basement Theatre kicks off 2021 with an exciting Auckland Pride Festival and Auckland Fringe Festival programme full of hilarious, heartfelt and experimental works. Oh, and a whole lotta cake.
Theatre Review: Le Basement XXXmas Cabaret, Basement Theatre, 21 November 2020
Welcome to Le Basement XXXmas Cabaret! It’s The Basement Theatre’s biggest fundraiser of the year, and I would like to report that they staged a full on banger of an extravaganza for us. However, what with Covid-19 and no bums on seats, it’s dire times…
Artists and Audiences Reunite at Basement
Basement Theatre returns in September after the longest closure in the theatre’s history with their Reunited Season – a season filled with an amalgamation of shows from the cancelled Summer and Winter seasons, a few rescheduled shows from the second lockdown, some new shows, and even some past hits. Including climate warriors, magical extravaganzas, workshops, […]
Perfect Shade – Basement Theatre – 11 February 2020: Theatre Review
Does colourism exist? Yes, yes it does. But ask someone if they have ever been guilty of it and the answer may not be so clear cut. Perfect Shade is a provocative one-person show exploring our conflicted obsession with the colour of our skin.
Take the Crown, Basement Theatre, 11 February 2020: Theatre Review
Bing-Bong. Welcome aboard Queer Air… Sarah Kidd went along for one wild and bumpy ride on opening night full of laugh-out-loud moments and deeply personal exposes of the world seen through queer eyes.