Dame Kiri Te Kanawa protege Ipu Laga'aia, tenor Chris McRae, musical theatre stars Sophie Morris and Rutene Spooner, and music legend Laughton Kora join forces with The New Zealand String Quartet. War Memorial Theatre, Sunday, May 2, 8pm. Tickets from i-SITE or .
Sixteen-year-old piano virtuoso Ashani Waidyatillake performs works by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and Franck. Tairawhiti Museum, Sunday, May 9, 2-4pm. Entry $10 adults, $5 Friends of the Museum, and free for students (with ID) and children.
The Dome, Sunday, May 9, 7pm. Tickets, earlybird $32+bf, $40+bf.
Shipwreck Bar, Thursday, May 13, 7.30pm. Tickets from eventfinda; GA $25+bf, students, Gold Card and Community Services card holders $20+bf.
Evolution Theatre Company, 79 Disraeli St. April 15 – 25, 7.30pm, Sunday matinees 4pm. Tickets, adults $30, seniors and u/17 $26 from Gisborne i-SITE, , or at the theatre 45 minutes prior to showtime.
Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, $5 at door.
Musical Theatre Gisborne, 99 Innes Street. May 15-22. Tickets from i-SITE or .
A programme featuring favourites from a wide range of genres. The beautiful counterpoint of Thomas Tallis will be presented alongside Leonard Cohen's melodic genius, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's show tunes alongside New Orleans-style jazz. St Andrew's Church, Saturday, May 15, 2pm. Admission free/koha towards performers greatly appreciated.
Toihoukura, Maia Gallery.
An installation by Cyndy McKenzie. Tairawhiti Museum until April 26.
Contemporary artworks, 67 Gladstone Road.
Vee Hoy's photographic exploration of diversity in identification. Tairawhiti Museum until April 25.
Woven art collection based on traditional raranga techniques, mixed with wild Israeli organic weaving. Tairawhiti Museum until May 9.
Three Maori cousins are separated in childhood, but the two still at home never give up hoping that the cousin who left will return.
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in father-daughter drama centred on an elderly man who refuses assistance — a decision that has him questioning everything around him.
Adrift on a flood, two misfit castaways struggle to reunite an unorthodox family, out-run a volcano, and negotiate a peace deal on a creaking Ark.
In 1657 England, Fanny Lye transcends her oppressive marriage to discover new possibilities, but at great cost.
A 2005 documentary film about musician Daniel Johnston, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder.
Reboot of the Mortal Kombat film series based on the video game franchise.
Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench star in film about an English finishing school for girls from influential families of Nazi Germany, and a teacher's warnings of sinister motives.
A young environmentalist wakes, trapped, kidnapped in the elevator of a super high-rise building at the mercy of her tormentors.
Live-action/computer-animated hybrid where the cat-and-mouse stars of the old theatrical short-film series get another feature-film outing.
The fight by female surfers to be taken seriously is documented in film that uses interviews and old footage to move the story along.
Thirty young men and women on a multi-generational space mission in search of a new home revert to their most primal state, not knowing whether the real threat they face is what is outside the spaceship or what they're becoming inside it.
Hutch Mansell fails to defend himself or his family when two thieves break into his suburban home one night. The aftermath of the incident soon strikes a match to his long-simmering rage.
Peter can't seem to shake off his reputation for mischief. Once he ventures out of the garden Peter finds a world where mischief is appreciated, but soon his family come to bring him home.
Based-on-fact story of a British businessman who forms an unlikely partnership with a Soviet officer to provide intelligence to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play father and daughter in this study of a steadfastly independent man gradually losing more and more of himself to dementia.
Mythic adversaries do battle over the fate of the world.
Three Maori cousins are separated in childhood. One is placed in an orphanage and lives out her childhood in fear and bewilderment, saved only by her imagination. Her cousins at home never give up hoping that she will return.
A lone warrior must find the last dragon to stop monsters that dragons and humans once fought and defeated together.
