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.
This powerful one-man play tells the story of how one action can inspire change in unlikely places. There is a quiet voice of defiance burning within us even when we are silenced.
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?
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.
18 September – 5 October 2025TSB Arena
21 November 2025The Opera House
12 September 2025The Opera House
February to March 2026
Early 2026
9 – 24 May 2026St James Theatre
27 September 2025The Opera House
18 – 29 March 2026St James Theatre
12 – 13 December 2025The Opera House
5 September – 5 October 2025Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre