Upcoming Events

Thursday 6—Sunday 9 March

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Auckland

 

Suitable for all ages, this show includes bright and strobe lights, projection and haze, combined with aerial specialists, dancers and aerial apparatus to create something visually very beautiful. The experience is designed to create an atmosphere and to make the viewer feel that they are in a different world.

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Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for all of the very visual performances.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.

Friday 7 March, 7.30pm

Q Theatre, Auckland

 

Jodee Mundy is a well-known Australian artist and performer, and she curates Melbourne’s Disability Arts Festival- Alter State.

 
She is also a CODA, and this one-woman play is her story of growing up in a Deaf family, where using sign language is natural. It’s also about living in a society that looks at your family with voyeuristic curiosity and sees “disability”. It is a personal story, exploring dis/ability and how we perceive one another.

In this play Jodee portrays her experience through performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation. This is a story for all ages (suitable for ages 8+), and is simultaneously performed in Sign language and English. 

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Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for this show.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.

Sunday 9 March, 10am

Aotea Square, Auckland

 

This is an opportunity to bring your children into the city to experience the excitement of the Festival -with dancing at a “Silent Disco” and Storytime in the Spiegeltent, interactive activities, and creative zones in Aotea Square that introduce families to the arts, and bring families together. 

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Storytime will be NZSL-interpreted, and there will be an interpreter who moves around the different activities throughout the day. (The NZSL interpreter schedule will be available in February 2025.).​​

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Wednesday 12 March, 8pm

Auckland Town Hall, Auckland

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On this night the Auckland Town Hall will turn into a nightclub, with the world’s greatest gospel choir and one of Australia’s biggest DJs- Groove Terminator!

Together they will bring to life music from three decades of dance music- including disco funk, club classics, rave anthems and millennial electropop. 

Come along and see dance music brought to life through New Zealand sign language!

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Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for this show.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.

Thursday 13—Sunday 16 March

Auckland Town Hall, Auckland

 

These 3 short dance works are from a contemporary dance company out of inner-city Los Angeles. They are well-known for incorporating African and Afro Haitian styles alongside dance composition rooted in African American culture. Their works often feature current social and political themes and events. There are no age restrictions, although social issues and themes may most appeal to audiences from older teenagers onwards. 

 

This is a Very Visual event with no NZSL interpretation. If you are interested in pre-show notes to explain any themes, please let us know.

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Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for this show.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.

Saturday 15 March, 9pm

Spiegeltent, Aotea Square, Auckland

 

Our cabaret in the Spiegeltent is always a fabulous night out! In 2025 we have invited the hottest cabaret troupe out of Australia, along with local performers, to put on an incredible show for us. 

Award winning performer, musician and Australian queen of late-night variety, Victoria Falconer will MC this risque, anything-goes circus-style cabaret. She’s joined by a team of drag, burlesque, aerial and acrobatic stars, from Australia and New Zealand, and a rock ’n roll live band.

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Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for this show.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.

Wednesday 19—Sunday 23 March

Q Theatre, Auckland

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A fun show for the whole family, this is a whacky farm-themed circus. Alongside traditional circus stunts, the show is performed visually through comedy skits, slapstick humour and dance.

 

Please note: Animal has narration and singing, however these are in French. Most of the hearing audience will not understand this language, which adds to the general sense of chaos and absurdity of the show. For this reason there is no interpretation or explanatory notes.

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Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for all of the very visual performances.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.

Thursday 20—Sunday 23 March

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Auckland

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This is a ballet performance of the famous 1947 play by Tennessee Williams. There is no dialogue, the story is told through ballet dance, and original music performed by the Auckland Philharmonia. 

It is the tragic story of Blanche Dubois, set in post-world-war America. Blanche’s husband commits suicide when she discovers that he is homosexual. Blanche seeks comfort in alcohol and the arms of strangers. She has no money and loses her house, and so she moves to New Orleans to live with her sister Stella and Stella’s husband Stanley. Blanche struggles with alcohol addiction and her mental health spirals. She fights with Stanley and he assaults her. She ends up committed to a mental institution

 

​This is only a brief synopsis. We will send pre-show notes to explain the story in detail. (Due to adult themes this show is not suitable for children under 15 years old)​. Tickets for these performances are $20 and companion tickets are available free of charge.  All of our venues have step-free access, and wheelchair accessible seating areas. You can access a hearing loop for all of the very visual performances.

 

Visit: www.aaf.co.nz/accessibility for more information and for booking forms. You can also e-mail Hannah Slade at access@aaf.co.nz or text 022 1239 759.
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Thursday 20 March, 7.30pm

The Civic, Auckland

 

In this award-winning musical experience, English King Henry VIII’s six wives are feisty Tudor queens who boldly rewrite 500 years of history. Don’t miss your chance to experience this unforgettable production!

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This performance of SIX the Musical is NZSL interpreted.  During this performance, trained interpreters will be positioned on the stage, and specific seats are reserved for deaf patrons, with a clear view of the stage and interpreters.  Tickets for these seats are $70.00 each (plus service fees) and a companion ticket is available at the same price if required.

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There will be introductory notes in NZSL for attendees at 6:30pm.  Upon arrival, please follow the signage in the foyer to the function room where this will take place.  Venue staff will be present to assist with navigation.

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To book online, enter the ticketing code SIGNED where indicated on the performance booking page.  To book over the phone, please call the Ticketmaster Groups Booking line on 09 970 9745 or email groups@ticketmaster.co.nz.  An $8 service fee per transaction will apply for all phone and online bookings.  NZSLI tickets for SIX the Musical will be available until 5pm, Wednesday 12 March 2025 or until the allocation is exhausted.

Friday 21 March, 8pm

ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

 

The songs we connect to our memories just hit differently. Ahi Karunaharan, hands down one of our finest theatremakers, has picked 17 nostalgic pop tracks to chart the deeply moving journey of Sangeetha and her family in 1950s Sri Lanka. Taking us from innocent times through to decades of civil war, to a new life in modern-day Aotearoa, this unforgettable saga is a testament to the storytelling power of good music. After presenting a reading of mixtape in 2023, we are honoured to be uplifting Ahi’s beautiful play and an all-South Asian cast to the main stage, where it deserves the biggest applause.

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To book tickets please phone Auckland Theatre Company box office on 09 309 3395 or e-mail boxoffice@atc.co.nz