Issue 224, July 16, 2024

Catch him if you can

Catch the White Rabbit if you can when KAT Theatre brings Alice – A Musical, a tuneful take on an old classic for all ages, to Khandallah these school holidays.

Trips down memory lane

Henry Brittain of Wellington Tramway Museum has been awarded a King’s Service Medal. Read on for fascinating stories about how life in Wellington used to be: when nary a car was in sight and everyone rode the tram to work.

Heady and heated

WITCH Music Theatre will have you on the knife’s edge of your set for Lizzie the Musical, a punk-rock musical reimagining of the gripping true-crime case of Lizzie Borden.

Sanap Wantaim – Stand Together

Wellington-based photographer Dr Paul Wolffram has spent the last six years documenting the work of the underground network of human rights defenders fighting sorcery violence in Papua New Guinea. Catch his exhibition at Pātaka Art + Museum until the 3^rd of August.

Its own little world

Building on Aotearoa’s rich indie music scene, PARK RD are thrilled to play their debut album The Novel to Meow audiences on the 27^th of July.

Shaken and stirred

The world is not enough for MI6’s recently demoted agent Steele. Help her save the world alongside Russian operative Titsa Dynamite in the spy comedy Two Girls One Gun at BATS Theatre from the 23^rd to the 27^th.

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