Find out what Performing Arts events are on in Hawke's Bay.
Grab your sexiest get up and join us for the first ever Naughtiness lingerie party. Indulge in a night of lingerie, adult toys, live DJs and giveaways!
Wear as much or as little as your comfortable with.
We encourage wearing some form of lingerie/underwear but wear what your comfortable...
Date: Saturday 6 March
Where: Level 1 Nightclub, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
To celebrate International Women’s Day on March the 8th we are screening the Movie Nomadland.
Reviews of the film say it is a beautiful and poetic character study on the forgotten and downtrodden, and beautifully captures the restlessness left in the wake of the Great Recession. It follows the...
Date: Monday 8 March
Where: Focal Point Cinema, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Award-winning choreographer Loughlan Prior fuses dance with music in his visceral adaption of Schoenberg’s ‘Verklärte Nacht’ (Transfigured Night). Based on the mystical poem by Richard Dehmel, it is a celebration of new life, the duality of conflict and resolution and, ultimately, the...
Date: Thursday 11 March
Where: Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The hauntingly beautiful Mozart Requiem will be performed by the Hastings Choral Society with the Gisborne Choral, directed by Gavin Maclean. Tom Chatterton will accompany the choir of over seventy on the organ.
The Soloists are; Soprano Catherine Macdonald, Contralto...
Date: Saturday 13 March
Where: St Matthew's Anglican Church, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Silent Movies LIVE!
This is the chance to see Charlie Chaplin's movie 'The Kid', as it was first broadcast, with no talking, just live piano and percussion, at the fabulous Church Rd Winery in Napier, New Zealand.
Suitable for all the family to enjoy, outside on the grass with the bespoke...
Date: Saturday 13 March
Where: Church Road Winery, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
An afternoon of beautiful chamber music featuring works from Bach to Bartok.
Soloists include conductor Jose Aparicio (flute), Alice Sip (viola), Dana Parkhill (flute) and Cameron Stuart (cello).
This is a fundraising concert to support the HBO to continue to present high-quality musical...
Date: Sunday 14 March
Where: St Paul's Presbyterian Church, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
As seen on 7 Days
"The Silencer" will not be silenced! And we're picking up where we left off.
Covid Safe and harder than ever, Chopper brings his hit show to NZ in March 2021.
Panic, terror, stupidity; they can all form a queue and suck the wrinkles out of Chopper’s walnut wallet...
Date: Sunday 14 March
Where: Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
From the producers of the smash-hit show Celtic Illusion comes the most exhilarating dance production of 2020!
Celtica, a high octane modern Irish Dance show will storm the stages of New Zealand on its National tour in 2021.
Starring an elite troupe of dancers, including stars of Riverdance...
Date: Saturday 20 March
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Chur Bro: A Tale of Kiwiana
Our Kiwiana show is a mixtape of songs by kiwi artists. You don’t quite know which song is going to be next! Much like the $1 pick n mix you’d get from the dairy we have a mixed bag of performers ready to take the stage for a celebration of kiwi life! Aerialists,...
Date: Saturday 27 March
Where: Paisley Stage, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Auckland Theatre Company presents Two Ladies by Nancy Harris
“Provocative... passionately on the side of women who are not in the room where it happens.” - The Guardian
The women behind the most powerful men in the world take centre stage.
Two Ladies catapults two dynamic women into a...
Date: Sunday 28 March
Where: Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A one-woman, tour-de-force jazz musical about the lives of America's greatest songwriters, Cole Porter, and his muse and wife, Linda Lee.
Georgia Jamieson Emms plays Linda, accompanied by the jazz trio of Ayrton Foote (keyboard), Thomas Moore (bass) and Sebastian Macaulay (drums).
"As Mrs...
Date: Sunday 28 March
Where: Central Hawke's Bay Municipal Theatre, Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay
A one-woman, tour-de-force jazz musical about the lives of America's greatest songwriters, Cole Porter, and his muse and wife, Linda Lee. Georgia Jamieson Emms plays Linda, accompanied by the jazz trio of Ayrton Foote (keyboard), Thomas Moore (double bass) and Sebastian Macaulay (drums).
"As Mrs...
Date: Monday 29 March
Where: Art Deco Masonic Hotel, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
How did we get here? How do we find our way through this? And exactly who are we again? In Bill’s new show, En Route to Normal, Bill ponders these and other questions that this moment in history has thrown up and tries to see a way through the strange unreality of our new world. With Bill naming...
Date: Saturday 3 April to Sunday 4 April
Where: Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A Mother's Loss - A Nation's Obsession
Filled with humour and heartbreak, this stunning work by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine (Parramatta Girls) explores the public’s relationship with one of 20th Century Australia’s most iconic figures. The story captivated a nation. A mother...
Date: Thursday 8 April to Saturday 17 April
Where: Waipukurau Little Theatre, Waipukurau, Central Hawke's Bay
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The Raw Comedy Quest is back for 2021! The search is on for the funniest new comedian in Aotearoa, and we reckon that person is right here, in Hawkes Bay! (Or Taranaki, Whanganui, the Manawatū... We're hedging our bets a little)
12 people will eventually battle it out for the Central Region...
Date: Sunday 11 April
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join the craziness of Uncle Tics, Judah, Nixon, Uncle Jack and JP as they travel across Aotearoa putting on shows in almost every town.
Featuring skits, music, competitions, meet and greets and all the silliness that you're used to seeing them do every day... but now it's live.
The tour is...
Date: Friday 16 April
Where: Wairoa Community Centre, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join the craziness of Uncle Tics, Judah, Nixon, Uncle Jack and JP as they travel across Aotearoa putting on shows in almost every town.
Featuring skits, music, competitions, meet and greets and all the silliness that you're used to seeing them do every day... but now it's live.
The tour is...
Date: Saturday 17 April
Where: Napier War Memorial Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join the craziness of Uncle Tics, Judah, Nixon, Uncle Jack and JP as they travel across Aotearoa putting on shows in almost every town.
Featuring skits, music, competitions, meet and greets and all the silliness that you're used to seeing them do every day... but now it's live.
The tour is...
Date: Sunday 18 April
Where: Hastings Sports Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a Pantomime. In a Pantomime, the actors will interact with the audience and the audience are expected to participate with lots of 'Booing' and singing along. Performed mainly by children so it is suitable for all ages including Nana's & Grandads, Mums and Dads,...
Date: Thursday 22 April to Sunday 25 April
Where: Taradale High School, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Open Call @ Paisley Stage
Come along and watch some local Hawkes Bay people brave the bright lights and share their talents with you! With acts from all different areas of performance; comedy, dancing, and singing, just to name a few. A fun night for both performer and patron awaits. Each show...
Date: Friday 23 April
Where: Paisley Stage, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The Musical Gala with an International cast brings London’s West End and New York’s Broadway to New Zealand for the first time.
The World of Musicals brings the very best of Musical theatre to life.
This incredible production is a wonderful revue of all your favorite musical theatre...
Date: Monday 26 April
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Parris Goebel presents The Royal Family Dance Crew touring New Zealand for the South Island for first time. The Royal Family have performed in sold-out shows all over Asia, Europe, USA & Australia. The Royal Family dancers have appeared in music videos reaching over 10 Billion Views. The Royal...
Date: Wednesday 28 April
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Based on the smash-hit DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar The Musical follows all your favourite cracka-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo. Along the way, they find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s...
Date: Friday 30 April to Sunday 2 May
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Based on the smash-hit DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar The Musical follows all your favourite cracka-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo. Along the way, they find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s...
Date: Friday 30 April to Sunday 2 May
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
New Zealand’s most accomplished performers, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa protégé 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 to today announce a nationwide tour of The New...
Date: Tuesday 4 May
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Romantic, mystical and lyrical, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Giselle is a timeless production of one of ballet’s great stories.
Former RNZB Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel and celebrated principal dancer, choreographer and director Johan Kobborg’s acclaimed production of Giselle first...
Date: Saturday 22 May to Sunday 23 May
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Celebrated New Zealand tenor, Geoff Sewell, founder of the world’s first opera band, Amici Forever, will tour through New Zealand in May 2021 in time for Mother’s Day with BRAVO AMICI, his opera group of leading international West End and Broadway stars, to perform an uplifting, moving...
Date: Sunday 30 May
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Following the triumph of his Hansel & Gretel in 2019, the Royal New Zealand Ballet is delighted to commission a new work by Choreographer in Residence Loughlan Prior for 2021.
The Firebird, first staged in Paris in 1910, changed the direction of ballet. The spine-tingling grandeur of...
Date: Friday 6 August to Saturday 7 August
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Friends – The Musical Parody have today announced that they are postponing their near sold out 2020 tour & have secured new dates for 2021 and added extra shows. All tickets remain valid for the new dates.
The tour will now take place in September and October 2021 and they look forward to...
Date: Saturday 9 October
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Let the Royal New Zealand Ballet transport you to a fantastical world of dazzling dance, music and enchantment. Following its hugely successful world premiere in 2015, the RNZB is thrilled to be bringing A Midsummer Night’s Dream back for Christmas 2021. Lovers, fairies, mischief and moonlight...
Date: Saturday 6 November to Sunday 7 November
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Please note due to the Covid-19 situation, the 2020 performance date has been postponed to 2021.
Following their sell-out 2019 performances of Swan Lake, the Imperial Russian Ballet Company return to New Zealand to perform a double bill, The Nutcracker & Don Quixote. Two sensational ballets, one...
Date: Sunday 14 November
Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come along and be a part of the wonderful, vibrant poetry group, where you can share your own work and hear poems by other members of Hawke’s Bay’s community. If you want to just listen, that is fine too. Napier Live Poets is tremendously supportive of all writers. The poets sit in a...
Date: Monday 5 April to Monday 6 December
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics of the bay and visiting comics from around the world. If you want to have a go yourself, contact us through the Hawkes...
Date: Sunday 14 March to Sunday 12 December
Where: The Cabana, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material. Come and see the best comics from Hawkes Bay and visiting from around the world. If you want to have a go, please contact us through the Hawkes Bay...
Date: Tuesday 16 March to Tuesday 21 December
Where: The Common Room, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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