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In Review: Pop Up Globe Farewell Summer Season – Much Ado About Nothing

December 24, 2019

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theatre

If you live in Auckland, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about, over even been to, the iconic Pop-Up Globe Theatre situated in Ellerslie just a minute off the Southern Motorway. For the past 4 years of tenu...

The 2019 Pacific Dance Festival is finally here!

Shawn Moodie

June 7, 2019

Culture, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Spotlight, Theatre

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Read the full programme below. Acclaimed and accomplished Pacific dance artists take the floor in the fourth rendition of the Pacific Dance Festival bringing a moving feast of entertaining and thought-provo...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Token African – Urzila Carlson

Liz Lauder

May 4, 2019

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

Watching 7 Days for many years, I've always been a big fan of the force of nature that is ex-Pat Saffa Urzila Carlson. Her signature bluntness, realism, and lewd lesbian jokes keep me eager for her fresh conte...

1000 Doors: In Review

Oliver Smith

January 12, 2019

Culture, Lifestyle

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This being the new year, and in the spirit of "new year, new me." I have decided to endeavour to have a little more culture in my life, as a sort of resolution. So when the opportunity to experience 1000 Doors...

In Review: Cellfish

The Speakeasy

June 15, 2018

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theatre

Review by Emily Joshua and Theo Lee There are a lot of ways that a play centered around a Shakespeare-in-prison narrative could have gone. Cellfish eschews the obvious tropes and instead swings for the fence...

The Auckland International Buskers Festival is Almost Here

Bill Hames

January 24, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life

The Auckland International Buskers Festival is almost upon us and will see acts from around the globe decend onto Auckland this Auckland Anniversary Weekend. From Friday 27 – Monday 30 January, the Viaduct H...

Affinity – The Light Sculpture Coming to Aotea Square

Nancy Yang

August 25, 2016

Culture, Lifestyle, Night Life

In September, Auckland's Aotea Square will be graced with an extensive interactive light sculpture for locals of all ages to enjoy. This is part of World Alzheimers Month, an international campaign to raise awa...

Nathan Joe Discusses His New Play ‘Hippolytus Veiled’

Shawn Moodie

August 16, 2016

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle

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Love, lust and lies. Nobody did it better than the Greeks. Euripides was one of the great playwrights of ancient Greece, known for the many tragedies he wrote, and his scandalous lost play Hippolytus Veiled sh...

Chill Out at the Aotea Snow Dome

Nathan Luscombe

July 14, 2016

Culture, Lifestyle

If you’ve been past Aotea Square recently, you may have noticed the appearance of an ice skating rink in the middle of the place. Well if you head back now, you’ll find that winter has definitely come to Auc...

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