Calling Time
March 31, 2016
After 13 years of publishing in print and online, The Lumière Reader is taking a break.
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A Polish Writer in Exile: An Interview with Etgar Keret
March 17, 2016
At New Zealand Festival Writers Week, the Israeli short fiction writer opens up about his first foray into narrative non-fiction, The Seven Good Years.
All Your Wants and Needs Overseas: An Interview with The PlayGround Collective
February 23, 2016
Robin Kerr and Eli Kent on staging their show All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever internationally, creative practice, and theatre culture in New Zealand.
“Every artist could probably quote their worst review word-perfect”
February 17, 2016
In Sydney, a dialogue on British artist Grayson Perry with the Museum of Contemporary Art’s chief curator, Rachel Kent.
Sydney Summer Cultural Highlights
February 17, 2016
On the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Sydney Festival, and more.
Silo Theatre in 2016
February 15, 2016
An interview with Silo Theatre’s artistic director Sophie Roberts.
“I feel like I was born for the Internet”
February 11, 2016
Mallory Ortberg, satirist and co-founder of The Toast, talks humour, femslash, and her conflicting soft spot for Ayn Rand ahead of New Zealand Festival Writers Week.
Sufjan Stevens, D’Angelo and other New Zealand Festival highlights
February 11, 2016
A few picks from the forthcoming New Zealand Festival for 2016.
From Soft Bomb to Silver Bullets
December 24, 2015
Martin Phillipps on The Chills’ long-awaited new album, Silver Bullets.
Catching up with Lord Echo
December 23, 2015
Mike Fabulous, aka Lord Echo, on collaborating with fellow DJ Julien Dyne on LORD JULIEN, his follow-up to 2013’s Curiosities, and the Sydney Festival.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Auckland Theatre in 2015
December 22, 2015
Favourite plays and performances, plus thoughts and observations on theatre in 2015 and beyond.
The Year in Review: The Best of Film (and Music) in 2015, Part 3
December 17, 2015
In praise of the New Zealand International Film Festival, plus the future of live music in Wellington.
After Shakespeare:
Tim Crouch on I, Peaseblossom
December 4, 2015
For the first time in New Zealand, Tim Crouch will present his alternate take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Auckland theatregoers.
Tiny Deaths
November 27, 2015
Uther Dean and Sam Brooks bring an evening of dark love stories to the Basement Theatre.
Beyond Freaks: KooKoo the Birdgirl
November 9, 2015
An interview with performer Sarah Houbolt, whose new show explores the dark history of circus through the mysterious life of character from Tod Browning’s Freaks.
Hudson and Halls Live!; Guys and Dolls; The Last Man on Earth (is Trapped in a Supermarket)
November 9, 2015
Silo Theatre revive a famous Kiwi cooking show; Auckland Theatre Company tackle a classic Broadway musical; theatremaker Ben Anderson delivers a character study of existential crisis.
Crushing Riffs, Climbing Mountains: TRIUMPHS
November 2, 2015
Mat Anderson and John Bollen of two-piece Dunedin heavy band TRIUMPHS on making music, channeling Sir Edmund Hillary, and what they listen to on the road.
Understanding The Lesson:
An Interview with Matt Baker
October 27, 2015
A conversation about staging Eugene Ionesco’s “Theatre of the Absurd.”
A Slut for Beauty:
An Interview with Sarah Jane Barnett
October 22, 2015
Inside Sarah Jane Barnett’s remarkable new book of poems, WORK.
My Own Darling
October 21, 2015
Auckland Theatre Company presents a new work for the stage by poet Grace Taylor.