Interviews - Andrew Whiteside

Interviews

Interview: Laura Hill on Ibsen and Lasagna

Interview: The Office comes downunder

Interview: Courtney Dawson says dreams are free

Interview: How to age with spirit!

Interview: Dean O’Gorman on being a first time director

Interview: Mia Blake and her film directing debut

Interview: SIX the Musical

Interview: Loughlan Prior on dance and sexuality

Interview: Kirsty Webeck on comedy, farming, and Ryan Reynolds

Interview: Alfred Fonoti-Fuimaono shares his love of opera

Interview: Beatriz Romilly’s funny and challenging new role

Interview: The Value of Music Therapy

Interview: Rutene Spooner wants to be like Billy T James

Interview: What brought actor Michael Hurst to tears?

Interview: Mel Parsons and the art of Sabotage

Interview: Andrew Paterson on Our Own Little Mess

Interview: Sean Rivera talks about Scenes from the Climate Era

Interview: Sabbath Queen

Interview: Frankie McNair

Interview: Who is susceptible to cults?

Interview: Cass Woodhouse on having a healthy life

Interview: Shae Mountain talks about Ballroom Blitz and marriage

Interview: David Stuart talks about orgies

Interview: Robbie Nicol has late night ambitions

Interview: Jackie Clarke can’t park a car!

Interview: Why is comedian Liv McKenzie a crybaby?

Interview: Explaining Te Radar’s Retrospectacle

Interview: Comedian Jake Howie and the women in his life

Interview: Is Hauser, the rebel with a cello, shy?

Interview: Schalk Bezuidenhout is trying to keep up

Interview: Jaiyah Saelua and the Rainbow Games

Interview: Tom Sainsbury shares a secret

Interview: Sara Wiseman talks about her latest play ‘The Effect’ and playing an ape on film

Interview: The Kiss of Death

Interview: Cross Street Music Festival 2024

Interview: 2024 Rainbow Parade in Auckland

Interview: Rainbow Games ’24 to bring inclusion in sport

Interview: How a paper delivery led to ‘HR the Muscial’

Interview: I am and I am is empowerment theatre

Interview: NZ Opera’s Brad Cohen previews the 2024 season

Interview: Shakespeare in the Park 2024

Interview: Simon Leary spills the beans about ‘Heartbreak Hotel’

Interview: Actor Sally Stockwell just wants to talk

Interview: Auckland Theatre Company’s 2024 Season

Interview: The Clay Cart

Interview: ‘REHAB’ An intimate, moving and funny play about rehab

Interview: Night of the Living Dead – Live!!

Interview: The stars of ‘The Music Man’

Interview: Fez Faanana from ‘Briefs – Dirty Laundry’

Interview: ‘Waiting’ is Shadon Meredith’s personal letter to his son

Interview: The talent behind the show ‘DIVAS’

Interview: Palmy Drag Fest 2023

Interview: Sarah Peirse talks about the thriller ‘Switzerland’

Interview: Give Out Day is a chance to support your community

Interview: Joel Tobeck talks about the unique play ‘I Want To Be Happy’

Interview: Laura Hill loves rom coms and her role in ‘Mike and Virginia’

Interview: Actor Nick Afoa talks about playing a gay man in ‘Mysterious Ways’

Interview: Stewart McKensy talks about ‘Lola’ from Kinky Boots

Interview: The story behind Black Grace’s work ‘Paradise Rumour’

Interview: Is James Penwarden a ‘Them Fatale?

Interview: Brendon Green is happy you’re here

Interview: Anita Wigl’it is a Funny Gurl

Interview: Stephen Butterworth on an exciting new play ‘Hemo is Home’

Interview: How to be a better leader, and confront your own demons

Interview: Nora: A Doll’s House

Interview: The Persimmon Journal and coping through a pandemic

Interview: Hitchcock’s masterpiece North By Northwest comes to the stage

Interview: The 30 year battle to exonerate Peter Ellis

Interview: Bringing art to the city

Interview: Fiona Sussman’s crime thriller ‘The Doctor’s Wife’

Interview: The story of a black lesbian couple adopting a child comes to the stage

Interview: Yulia brings Edith Piaf to life

Interview: Bringing the psychological thriller ‘The Wasp’ to life on stage

Interview: Alison Bruce talks about artificial intelligence, and starring in ‘The Made’

Interview: Behind the scenes of The Campervan

Interview: Bringing a gay love story to light in the movie ‘Punch’

Interview: Actor Matt Whelan and the controversial play ‘The Writer’

Interview: The real story behind the play ‘Swallow the Fly’

Interview: The play ‘Skin Hunger’ explains how grief can make you horny

Interview: How greed inspired Kathryn Burnett to write ‘The Campervan’

Interview: The two women behind the Fringe show Grief-Sex-Race

Interview: A wacky view of The Trojan War

Interview: Peter Wells’ autobiography ‘Hello Darkness’ comes to the theatre

Interview: ‘Dawn Raids’ and its relevance today

Interview: Actor Cameron Jones takes on the excesses of the 1980s

Interview: Upcoming highlights of the 2022 Cabaret Season

Interview: Pacifica the Musical

Interview: The 2022 Auckland Writers Festival

Interview: Gina Cole’s pacific oriented sci-fi story ‘Na Viro’

Interview: Massive Company’s new work ‘What We’re Made Of’

Interview: Sabreen Islam’s journey through grief

Interview: The potency of Eugene O’Neill’s drama Long Day’s Journey into Night

Interview: Girl From the North Country

Interview: The intriguing world of alternative drag in the film ‘Disco Bloodbath’

Interview: A change of name for the New Zealand AIDS Foundation

Interview: Behind the scenes of the spooky Woman in Black

Interview – This year’s best offerings at the Documentary Edge Film Festival

Interview: The personal story behind the play ‘Scenes from a Yellow Peril’

Interview – Keagan Carr Fransch talks about dangerous theatre

Interview: 1972 – the year Gay Liberation began in New Zealand

Interview: Meet the cast of Dhaba on Devon Avenue

Interview: Ukraine Film Festival in New Zealand

Interview: Removing discrimination from blood donations in New Zealand

Interview: How a pomegranate became the perfect metaphor for ageing

Interview: Creating inclusive and safe schools for Rainbow students

Interview: Auckland Theatre Company’s plan to bring diversity to theatre

Interview: The ingenuity of talent at this year’s Auckland Festival of the Arts

Interview: MP Shanan Halbert – What now after banning conversion therapy?

Interview: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins reflects on his wonderful debut novel ‘Shelter’

Interview: voices from the 2022 ‘samesame but different’ literary festival

Interview: NZ Queer MPs Elizabeth Kerekere and Louisa Wall on conversion therapy ban

Listen: Connecting Worlds with Words – an international poetry slam

Listen: Ruby Solly reflects on her bicultural identity and her creativity

Listen: Hayden Tee on channeling a bad guy and discovering his roots

Listen: How a soap opera helped Catherine Waller come out

Listen: Giving a voice to migrant and refugee youth in NZ

Listen: A simple guide to having a healthy and happy life

Listen: Is the Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic?

Listen: A new and exciting anthology of queer kiwi writers

Listen: Alphabet Bookclub is the new place for LGBTQ books

Listen: Auckland Theatre Company and its exciting and eclectic programme for 2022

Listen: The benefits of music therapy

Listen: The lives of gay men born after law reform

Listen: The mysterious woman accused of spying in World War One

Listen: Winter Pride CEO talks about cancellation and refunds

Listen: Auckland Pride Co-Chairs talk about the $79K deficit

Watch: The Lion King musical opens in Auckland

Watch: The moving and challenging new play about AIDS in New Zealand

Listen: One woman’s courageous recovery from addiction

Listen: Mauri Tau celebrates Matariki

Listen: Brendhan Lovegrove’s new gig and a little known fact about his life

Listen: The Solomon Cole Band’s tribute to a Manhattan venue

Listen: Fasi Amosa and the poetry of the pacific

Listen: Two Samoan kiwi choreographers challenging their culture

Listen: Hadleigh Pouesi and the lessons of Māui

Listen: The inspiration behind the dance Shel We

Listen: Nikita 雅涵 Tu-Bryant talks about music and her heritage

Listen: Cori Gonzalez-Macuer on racism and being a dad.

Listen: Why a shy boy with autism wants to make people laugh.

Listen: Lolsy Byrne on covid and having a stalker

Listen: How a play about racism lead to a fascinating discussion

Listen: Two Hearts comedy duo are real-life sweethearts

Listen: Jadwiga Green explains why she’s a scruffy vagabond!

Listen: Neil Thornton proves personal demons and shame are funny

Listen: Barnie Duncan on grief and being attacked by a cougar

Listen: Rhys Mathewson talks about anxiety and comedy

Listen: Sameena Zehra on how to be less of an arsebiscuit

Listen: The improv star and the text

Listen: Adam Hattaway explains his love of Van Morrison

Listen: NZAF CEO responds to criticism over the Rainbow Parade

Listen: Former Chair of NZAF surprise over non-attendance at Rainbow Parade

Listen: The star of a kinky cabaret brings her experience of BDSM to the stage

Watch: Rainbow Parade is coming back

Listen: The woman who might wanna be Mark Wahlberg

Listen: The many crimes of Ngaio Marsh

Listen: The joy and the intrigue behind Shakespeare in the Park

Listen: Addressed to Greta is a beautiful new novel by Fiona Sussman

Watch: Mary Poppins opens in Auckland

Listen: The history behind Brent Coutt’s book ‘Crossing the Lines’

Listen: What you need to know about Covid-19 and HIV

Watch: UPU celebrates the poetry of the Pacific

Watch: The lengths fans go to for a ticket to the Book of Mormon

Watch: How personal trauma influenced a cabaret act

Watch: Provocation is a powerful new play about gay panic defence

Watch: Will Rainbow Pride Auckland deliver on its promise?

Podcast: Will Australia’s religious freedom proposal dilute human rights law?

Podcast: How safe is the world’s first HIV+ Sperm Bank?

Watch: The amazing voice of Hayden Tee

Watch: Les Misérables set to wow Auckland

Watch: American Idiot is a different kind of musical

Listen: Joanna Pearce on her latest work and male menopause

Listen: Tales of History and Imagination

Watch: School of Rock hits Auckland

Listen: Annie Crummer channels Tina Turner and talks about dyslexia

Listen: Talking about the legacy of Helen Kelly

Listen: The documentary exposing the young men seeking internet fame

Listen: The story behind photographer Peter Peryer

Listen: A ten year old aborigine boy has a lesson for us all

Listen: Damon Gameau has a plan to save the world

Listen: How the death of a father led to the film Come to Daddy

Listen: The man and the anxiety behind Inferno

Listen: Why you should see the film Capital in the 21st Century

Listen: Some picks from the NZ International Film Festival

Listen: Actress Lisa Chappell talks about coping with the vagaries of life

Listen: Sarah McBride and the politics of diversity

Watch: A sneak peek of War Horse

Listen: Peter Tatchell’s view on how to save us all

Listen: Comedy and fun in The Barber of Seville

Watch: Urzila Carlson and her almost new book

Listen: Celebrating The Children of Harvey Milk

Listen: Playing the Queen gave Theresa Healey night sweats

Listen: Turning a passion for travel into a business

Watch: Blanc de Blanc is naughty and fun

Listen: Making a difference by changing what you buy

Listen: Peter Wells last public appearance

Listen: Homos, or everyone in America

Listen: Sam Orchard talks about comics and being trans

Listen: Legacy 6 brings experimental queer theatre to Pride

Listen: The UN recommends improvements to LGBTQI rights in New Zealand

Watch: Madiba the Musical is an emotional rollercoaster

Watch: Aladdin in Auckland January 2019

Watch: Jennifer Ward-Lealand talks about her new film and roles for older women

Watch: Mr Burns is one crazy yet satisfying ride

Watch: La Bohème is a must-see opera

Watch: Chicago is deliciously naughty

Watch: Anjelah Johnson is one funny lady

Listen: Exploring the cultural phenomenon of roller skating in United Skates

Listen: Island of the Hungry Ghosts casts a critical eye at Australian immigration policy

Listen: The film Jirga finds humanity on both sides of conflict

Listen: Terror Nullius will challenge your view of Australian History

Listen: Why boy bands can be empowering for women

Listen: An intimate look into the life of fashion icon Guo Pei

Listen: Kiwis take on the world in medieval battle

Listen: The director of ‘Stray’ says the audience needs to interpret the film themselves

Listen: Dog’s Best Friend shows that ‘bad’ dogs can be saved

Listen: Maui’s Hook and the subject we aren’t supposed to talk about.

Listen: Michael Hurst on the power of Jacobean theatre

Listen: Brendan Were talks about his debut novel Tane’s War

Watch: Ballet Revolucion comes to Auckland

Watch: NZ Dance Co has a hit with Lumina

Watch: Colin Cloud – The Mentalist

Watch: Rhys Nicholson is camp and funny

Video – Zoe Lyons on being bald, gay and funny