Drama

When the Chinese dreamed up the terrible threat "may you live in interesting times" they were probably thinking about a year like 2020. In a world that's been locked down, divided and cut off, it's… Video, Audio

If ever there was an idea whose time had come it may be a TV movie called Toke. When the country is getting ready to make a decision about marijuana - to legalize it or not - what better time for a… Audio, Gallery

New local film Savage follows Danny (Jake Ryan) across three decades of his life, trying to understand the boy who eventually becomes the brutal enforcer of a gang. Porirua-raised writer and director… Video, Audio

The first Tongan bilingual drama web series called Brutal Lives - Mo'ui Faingata'a funded by New Zealand On Air will be released online on August 5th. Audio

Formerly a writer on Shortland Street, director Max Currie is bringing his acclaimed web series Rurangi to the big screen as part of this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Billed as a… Video, Audio

Half of the much loved comedy duo the Laughing Samoans, Eteuati Ete, has received CNZ's Senior Pacific Artist Award, recognising a career that spans four decades. The Laughing Samoans started out in… Audio

Silo Theatre's next production is making history - it's the first time the stage is being given over to an ensemble of teenage performers, all making their professional debuts. The young Aucklanders… Audio

'Blackout' is a new fiction podcast looking at what could happen if power went down across the entire US. So imagine a world where mobile communications and the internet fail, and where news is hard… Audio

Upcoming New Zealand TV drama The Bad Seed is ground-breaking in more ways than one. Lynn Freeman asked Dean O'Gorman and Madeleine Sami about the challenges of The Bad Seed which starts on Sunday… Audio

This weekend sees the awarding of the prestigious Adam New Zealand Play Awards. Lynn Freeman announces the results, and talks to the winner live in the Wellington. (The results are embargoed until… Audio

Kate Mulgrew on how Orange is the New Black's character Red 'just leapt out', being where no woman had gone before, playing the first female Star Trek skipper: Voyager 's Captain Janeway, and the… Audio, Gallery

This year Tim Bray Productions is celebrating its 27th year - which is pretty much ancient in New Zealand theatre company terms - that's 27 years of school holiday productions in Auckland. Tim adapts… Audio, Gallery

Sally Wainwright is one of Britain's most highly regarded screenwriters. She cut her teeth writing for The Archers and Coronation Street. And then went on to create and write her own original award… Audio, Gallery

From Mesoamerica 8000BC Fawn Terra investigates the Olmec people who are attempting to cultivate Utopia.

Features Deana Elvins as Fawn Terra Audio, Gallery

Lynn Freeman asks Toi Whakaari Head of Costume Kaarin Macaulay, and aspiring costume-maker Monique Bartosh how the industry's changed over the past decade. Audio, Gallery

Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews theatre director Hannah Smith and playwright Ralph McCubbin Howell whose Trick of the Light Theatre company is about to take two shows to festivals in the UK. Audio