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Your guide to upcoming events, festivals, gigs, and celebrations in Christchurch.
 

A night at the opera – Madama Butterfly

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The gilded interior of the restored Isaac Theatre Royal is an appropriate setting for the New Zealand Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly, ...

 

Review: Niu Sila

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The Court Theatre’s new play Niu Sila offers a couple of dynamic theatrical team-ups; firstly between New Zealand playwrights Dave Armstrong and ...

 

Ache: Time After Time

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There’s a touch of Groundhog Day to be found in the messy affairs of the heart in Ache, The Forge at The Court’s brilliant and ballsy new will ...

 

La bohème: Love at First Light

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Having sought solace from Wednesday’s wintery chill within the magnificently-transformed CBS Arena – now bohemian Paris 2014 – no suspension of ...

 

Double Trouble: Blood Brothers

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Fate, superstition and Faustian pacts come home to roost in The Court Theatre’s gripping and heartfelt production of Willy Russell’s acclaimed ...

 

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Terror, mystery and comedic mayhem are uncorked when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest creation Sherlock Holmes and his trusty offsider Watson ...

 

Stormy Weather

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When the Rain Stops Falling Torrential rain and an extinct fish falling from the sky in 2039 set the scene for The Court Theatre’s spellbinding ...

 

Review: Rainbow's End

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Cityscape heads along to the opening night of The Court Theatre's first new production for 2014, the Judy Garland biopic End of the ...

 

Carrie: Puberty Blues

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They're meant to be the best years of your life, but unless you're popular, perfect and/or have rich parents high school can totally blow - just ...

 

Pure Heroine - Lorde

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In this 15 Internet seconds of fame time where a world seems collectively addicted to a song about what noises a fox makes or the mock shock of ...

 

SNAP!: FULL HOUSE

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It’s Cluedo meets Midsomer with a touch of Fawlty Towers in The Court Theatre’s self-referencing and camp whodunnit SNAP! Reworked from Dame ...

 

The Way, Way Back: Growing Pains

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If there’s one message cinemagoers will come away from what’s tipped to be this year’s sleeper hit The Way, Way Back, it’s that finding your ...

 

The Rocket: Born Under a Bad Sign

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Tick, tick, boom. From the forest cries that saturate the opening sequence, The Rocket catapults you smack-bang into the mountains of Northern ...

 

Kings of the Gym: Class War

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 The battle lines have been drawn at Hautapu High, a low-decile school where PE head and knockabout man’s man Laurie Connor (Tom Trevella in ...

 

World War Z: Death Becomes Him

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Anyone doubting that zombies are the new vampires (seriously, what hope was there after tween Twilight franchise and television’s ludicrous True ...

 

White Lies: Soft hands and hard truths

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In a world where the possession of a handful of medicinal herbs (no, not those kind of herbs!) can get a person landed in prison, early 20th ...

 

The Great Gatsby: Good show, old sport!

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There was a lot of pressure on Baz Luhrmann to recapture the lightning in a jar of earlier efforts Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet following ...

 

Method Acting

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Some actors will go to any length to make a film, take Sharon Stone for example. When she was making the 1981 Wes Craven horror Deadly Blessing ...

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