8 February – 1 November 2025
Circa Theatre
Inside Circa Theatre’s waterfront venue, you’ll find two performance spaces. Both offer a smorgasbord of professional theatre throughout the year. Playwrights from international heavy hitters to brilliant Kiwi voices are represented. It also includes programming from comedies and cabarets to contemporary dance and pantomime.
Before or after your show, visit the on-site café brasserie and restaurant, Chouchou. It opens out onto a deck, where you can take it views across the harbour. Look up to admire the art installation above. Called ‘Velarium’, it undulates in the wind mirroring the water in the harbour.
Circa Theatre began its life in 1976. A breakaway group of actors and theatre practitioners decided that Aotearoa needed a new and innovative approach to theatre. Five decades later it is still pushing boundaries, making people laugh and cry, and creating theatrical memories.
If you don’t have your own Circa memory yet, there’s an opportunity to create one nearly every night of the week.
Get ready for lift-off, laughs, and sing-alongs. Tamariki and their grown-ups are invited on a wild, musical ride with two lovable dads, Jeff and Tom. They explore all the things they’ve ever dreamed of being. From All Blacks to ballerinas, monkeys to monsters. All The Things I Wish I Could Be is a joyful, high-energy celebration of imagination, friendship, and the freedom to be whoever (or whatever) you want.
With six Tony Award nominations ‘The Sound Inside’ is a gripping yet delicate play following the friendship of a professor and her student. It explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.
What’s the time Mr Wolf? Time to grab your ticket to ride the retro rollercoaster. Expect a rad musical review of local and international hits from the 90s along with the cringy fashion. Party like it’s 1999.
Spine-chilling, funny and scary, ‘2:22 A Ghost Story’ follows Jenny and Sam who are renovating their new home. Something strange can be heard at the same time every night. Is the house haunted?
Like a wild dress-up party, this show combines theatrical magic, twisted pop songs, and explosive wit. The most charming ‘French’ performers play a revolving repertoire of outrageous characters.
He’s a working-class hero and he wears tights. Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor in an oldie timey place where people are struggling and the rich hoard the money all for themselves – just like today.
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