The Listener

They do words, that’s what they do

By Elspeth Sandys in Theatre

Issue 3806 11th Apr 2013

Conversation is a highly charged weapon in Nina Raine’s Tribes.

The Women - review

By Faith Oxenbridge in Theatre

Issue 3804 28th Mar 2013

Remarkable for its time, The Women remains fun, but not a lot more.

Coro on stage: Taking it to the Street

By Diana Wichtel in Theatre

Issue 3803 21st Mar 2013

Coronation Street, television’s longest-running soap, celebrates 50 years by touring a stage play featuring five actors playing 50-odd characters.

Auckland Arts Festival: AUT Dominion Road Stories review

By Nick Grant in Theatre

21st Mar 2013

Auckland Theatre Company’s AUT Dominion Road Stories showcased a small cluster of performances and events inspired by the busy Auckland thoroughfare on which they were staged.

Auckland Arts Festival: Hui review

By Nick Grant in Theatre

Issue 3803 21st Mar 2013

Emotional pyrotechnics are a dead cert when long-absent siblings look back in anger.

Love, Loss, and What I Wore - review

By Helen Watson White in Theatre

Issue Listener Plus 14th Mar 2013

Clothes maketh the woman.

Richard Bean: One man, two strengths

By John Nathan in Theatre

Issue 3801 7th Mar 2013

Humour is key, but it’s not a Richard Bean play if it’s not thought-provoking.

A text adroitly mined: King Lear review

By Nick Grant in Theatre

Issue 3801 7th Mar 2013

Lisa Harrow makes an auspicious directorial debut, with Michael Neill magnificently modulated as Lear.

The factory of dreams

By Nick Grant in Theatre

Issue 3800 28th Feb 2013

Musical The Factory is a tribute to the 1970s Pasifika migrants for whom the promised land of milk and honey proved a mirage.

Lisa Harrow: The wheel is come full circle

By Guy Somerset in Theatre

Issue 3799 21st Feb 2013

King Lear’s origins at the birth of capitalism confirm Lisa Harrow in her conception of the play for Summer Shakespeare.