HERE WE GO AGAIN: The setting for Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Mamma Mia! is the Greek island of Kalokairi but prospective performers only need to go as far as MTG’s clubrooms for pre-auditions next month. Picture supplied
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This weekMarlon Williams: The Turangawaewae Tour: Kiwi singer-songwriter plays alt-country. With support act Emily Fairlight. War Memorial Theatre, tonight (7.30pm). Tickets available at TicketDirect, $68.55+bf and Stephen Jones Photography $71.
Jeremy Elwood and Michele A’Court: On the Road: Outrageously entertaining husband-and-wife comedians. The Gaiety Theatre, Wairoa, tonight (7.30pm), $25. Tickets from The Gaiety Theatre Facebook page, i-Site Wairoa phone 0800 924 762 or Wairoa District Council.
Martha Kelly and Chris Wilson: Acoustic and vocals, originals and covers. Matawhero Wines, Sunday (1pm-3pm), bookings essential.
Monty Bevins Travellers Tour: Kiwi soul-folk troubadour plays his new EP Travellers. Dome Garden Bar, Sunday (6pm), $10 at the door.
Coming upLight It Up New Zealand tour: Richie Cattell & Darnell Wilson bring RnB/pop to the Dome Garden Bar, March 2 (6pm), tickets $10 from www.theticketfairy.com or at the door.
Isaiah B Burnt trio: Voodoo Blues tour: Australian trio brings their brand of blues to the Dome, March 7 (7pm), tickets $20 on the door.
Leaving Jackson: The Johnny Cash & June Carter Show: Paying tribute to a country and western legend. War Memorial Theatre, March 20 (7pm), tickets from TicketDirect and Stephen Jones Photography.
Skinny Hobos: The Lucifer Tour: Smash Palace, March 30 (7pm), tickets $20-$30 from www.undertheradar.co.nz.
Sonic Delusion: ‘Hey Trouble’ single release tour by Swiss-Kiwi electro-folk artist Sonic Delusion. The Dome, April 6 (8.30pm), presale tickets $15 from the Aviary, $20 on the door.
TheatreMamma Mia! pre-audition: Meeting and workshop for Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Mamma Mia! Musical Theatre Gisborne, 99 Innes Street (5-6pm), Sunday, March 3.
Sylvia: A dog is found in the park and taken home where she bonds with the male of the house in this play by A.R.Gurney. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, March 8-23. Tickets $32 for adults, $29 for seniors and $24 for youth aged 17 and under.
Alice In Wonderland: Presented by the Melbourne City Ballet. War Memorial Theatre, April 3 (7.30pm), tickets from TicketDirect and Stephen Jones Photography.
Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare’s play of two teenagers from rival families who fall in love with tragic consequences. Unity Theatre, 209 Ormond Road from April 25.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Ambitious Women, a look back at the Gisborne suffragette movement, Out of The Bedroom Into the Lounge, Jan Nigro. Posing, Not Posing Exhibition, takes a look at photography before smartphones and selfie sticks. Retrospective: Phyllis Underdown collection of Gisborne scenes including Sponge Bay.
Tony Ogle screenprints: Ormond Road Cafe.
Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Matthew Couper
Verve Cafe: Works by Conor Jeory
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Krystle Kelly.
Life drawing at Lysnar House: Eight week programme starts February 4 (7pm). Gisborne Artists Society members $50, non-members $60 or $8 a session for GAS members, $10 non-members. Bring paper, large paper clips and drawing materials. For more information, call Chris at 868 3422.
At the moviesOdeon multiplex
Stan & Ollie: Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in a film focusing on a music hall tour of Britain and Ireland in 1953 as the duo struggle to get another film made.
Escape Room: Psychological horror film that follows a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of escape rooms, only to find the consequences are deadly.
Total Dhamaal: Third instalment of the Indian Hindi-language Dhamaal comedy film series.
Alita: Battle Angel: American cyberpunk action film based on Japanese graphic novel series Gunnm. In 2563, a cyborg scientist discovers a disembodied female cyborg with a human brain, rebuilds the cyborg and names her Alita, after his late daughter.
What Men Want: Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is successful in the male-dominated world of sports agents, but is passed over for promotion. When she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts, she looks to outsmart her colleagues.
Happy Death Day 2U: After the events of Happy Death Day, in which Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) relived the same day repeatedly after being hunted and killed, Tree unexpectedly re-enters the time loop, but now her friends are also targets.
Cold Pursuit: Liam Neeson plays a snowplough driver rocked by his son’s death from a heroin overdose. Learning a drug cartel murdered his son, he seeks revenge, sparking a war between rival cartels.
Green Book: A bouncer from The Bronx is hired to drive a black pianist on a tour to the Deep South in the 1960s. The Green Book guides them to the places that are safe for African-Americans.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: Hiccup has created a dragon utopia, but danger threatens the village he and Toothless call home.
Dome cinemaScotch: A Golden Dream: Documentary film about Scotch whisky, a spirit that generates annual export earnings of over $6 billion.
Vox Lux: Teenage sisters who survive a school shooting become stars after writing and performing a song about their experience. Years later, one of the sisters prepares for a concert while dealing with the media fallout of a terrorist attack that uses her iconography. Stars Natalie Portman and Jude Law.
Capharnaum: After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents.
Emocean, plus shorts: Surf film festival movie on connection that watermen have with the sea. Features interviews with pioneer surfers of famous breaks, and plenty of footage.
Rail Road, plus shorts: Nic von Rupp travels through Europe by train seeking surfing perfection.
Two-Lane Blacktop: Far Out Film Night debut offering from 1971 stars singer-songwriter James Taylor, Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates and Laurie Bird in a “time capsule film of Route 66”.
Border: Fantasy film about Tina, whose ability to sniff out guilt and shame is useful for the Swedish border agency.