THIS WEEK
The Grudge and The Devils Rejects: Tool & Rob Zombie Tributes plus Uni-Fi
Smash Palace, Saturday, 8.30pm. $20 cash-only door sales.
Hypnotist...
The set for Evolution Theatre’s production of Steel Magnolias awaits its actors — and its audiences — who can enjoy the Elizabeth Boyce-directed show from tonig...
Craft is a broad church, art historian Damian Skinner once told The Guide.
“There is amateur craft, craft people made in wartime such as rag rugs and chairs mad...
“I use the words ‘world psychedelic’ — but I change that quite a lot,” says Carnivorous Plant Society frontman Finn Scholes of the genre-eating band’s sound.
“W...
by Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer
Godzilla vs Kong begins, fittingly, with the big guy asleep.
There is King Kong, colossus of the big screen, waking on a mountains...
A warm hug of a play, is how director of Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Nunsense, Beatrice Papazoglou, describes the musical comedy.
“The appeal for m...
“You don’t sound like a rock star — you could be a . . . a New Zealander.”
Surely most rock or rock musical stars would sniff haughtily, or have their publicity...
THIS WEEK
Paul Jackson
Wrights Vineyard and Winery. Saturday 1.30pm.
The Search — Beer Festival after-party
Smash Palace, Saturday, 7pm. Entry $10 at the door....
Musical theatre isn't a hobby, it's a way of life, says Musical Theatre Gisborne vice president Peter Grealish, one of three dedicated MTG members to be awarded...
Only six women feature in Robert Harling's play Steel Magnolias but they each have their own stories going on, says actor Susan Partington.
“There are still jok...
THIS WEEK
The Big Blues Up
Smash Palace, Friday, 7pm, Saturday and Sunday at 4pm. Tickets $50 presales (all days) are available at www.povertybaybluesclub.co.nz...
Woven works based on traditional raranga techniques mixed with wild Israeli organic weaving make up New Zealand/Israeli woman Nova Avni’s collection, Flight Pat...
Almost 56 years to the day, the first concrete was poured for Midway Surf Life Saving Club’s spanking new £18,000 clubhouse.
Due for demolition in the near fut...
Light, as much as material, plays a significant part in artist Cyndy McKenzie’s installation Liminal Space.
She enjoys exploring light, reflection and space. Sy...
by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
Contrary to what Game of Thrones might have you believe, not all dragons are agents of destruction.
In the newest offering from ...
Minerva, Ovid called you
“goddess of a thousand works”.
Medicine, arts, handicraft and poetry.
But, I ask, is Metis, your strange
weaponising mother still aroun...
With a degree in theatre arts, her own theatre, and years on the US’s Entertainment Service and Technology Association board, Evolution Theatre Company managing...
Born in China and educated in China and the USA, Liu is an internationally celebrated concert pianist whose artistry has taken him to some of the world’s most p...
THIS WEEK
■ Bram
Smash Palace, tomorrow 7pm, free entry.
■ Subset
The cinematic bass ensemble returns plus debut support act The Night Moves and DJ Missing Li...
Few words in the English language are as ugly as the vapid nomenclature “prog rock”.
The obsolete term refers to any music outside the meat and two veg, pub-ro...
Actors are invited to audition on Saturday for roles in Evolution Theatre Company’s, Dinna Myers-directed production of Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menag...
They’re a little bit underground and they ride on a subterranean sound and, like the above-ground cactus flower that blooms in a cosmic cycle, bass-guitar-drive...
With lyrics about hitting and running hard to become a champion, Gin Wigmore's female power anthem, Girl Gang, could have been written with the intention of hel...
SNEAK PREVIEW: Among 35 artists, many of whom have close ties with the Department of Conservation and its work is local DoC ranger Jamie Quirk. His ceramic work...
Crumpled sheets of paper hung inside the entrance to Hoea! gallery suggest the surface of the sea and softly ripple with a projection of watery light that echoe...
by Dominic Corry, NZ Herald
A group of Kiwi women exhibit inspirational attitudes in the face of cancer in The Pinkies are Back, a gentle and affecting local do...
Artists who love land and seascapes will be interested in the course being offered by the Gisborne Artists’ Society.
Accomplished painter, Roger Shanks will ne...
The Gisborne Camera Club is doing very well this year, says photographer Elenor Gill who was recently acknowledged with the Photographic Society of New Zealand’...
This week
■ An Evening with Marlon Williams
War Memorial Theatre, tomorrow, 7.30pm. Book at i-SITE or ticketek.co.nz
■ Pull Down the Sun album release tour
Un...
by Ethan Sills, NZ Herald
Few people would be able to argue they were as productive in lockdown as Bill Bailey was.
While most of us were hoarding toilet paper ...