Most New Zealanders have experienced the joys - and horrors - of a motor camp, so the Fortune Theatre's upcoming production of Dave Armstrong's The Motor Camp should bring back a lot of memories. Charmian Smith talks to director Conrad Newport about the funny side of camping.
A special theatre performance for the visually impaired will be staged in Dunedin tomorrow.
The Fortune Theatre is hoping fortune favours the bold, after the release of its ambitious 2012 season programme last night.
Barbara Frame reviews The Truth Game at Fortune Theatre, Saturday, October 8.
A report that could lead to upgrades for Dunedin's Fortune and Mayfair theatres has been delayed until next year.
Eccentric characters, constant deadlines, lust, envy, loyalty and betrayal, all in the sealed environment of a newspaper newsroom. Charmian Smith talks to Simon Cunliffe about his new play, The Truth Game which opens at the Fortune Theatre next week.
Otago arts organisations were putting on a brave face yesterday after Creative New Zealand finalised its new funding programme.
In arts organisations are awaiting news of their futures.
A hard-living self-made millionaire, a PC-lefty teacher and a rebellious spoilt teenager together on stage make for a lot of belly laughs but also leave you thinking, according to Patrick Davies....
A leading New Zealand playwright, Roger Hall, will return to Dunedin next month to share some of his secrets.
The Fortune Theatre has appointed James Higgs as its new marketing and communications manager.
Fortune theatre artistic director Lara Macgregor was scheduled to go to Christchurch at the end of February to direct Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. It was to play a five-week season there then...
The Fortune Theatre has reversed its fortunes, having a "stellar" year in 2010 after its future was left hanging in balance in 2009.
The Fortune Theatre and Southern Sinfonia received some good news just before Easter.
Usually, a new artistic director has to swallow a whole year's programme organised by the previous regime, but Lara Macgregor, who started as the Fortune Theatre's artistic director in January, has had the luxury of making her own programme for the year.
The Fortune Theatre is looking for a young actor to star in its next play.
Jeff Clark has seen plenty of drama over the past month - and he is about to see even more.
Rather than go into actual anatomical detail, therapist Desmond ("not professionally trained obviously, but I've taught myself") and sidekick Raymond present a woefully uninstructive history of sex, starting with Oedipus and finishing with a ludicrous vision of the future.
The future of Otago's only professional arts organisations, the Fortune Theatre and Southern Sinfonia, is on a knife edge after Creative New Zealand deferred their applications yesterday to be included in its new arts leadership programme.
Fortune Theatre productions Wuthering Heights, The Pitman Painters and The 39 Steps have won the lion's share of nominations for the inaugural Dunedin Theatre Awards.
