The following reviews have been added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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The following reviews have been added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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Basement Theatre, Auckland - LITTLE WHITE MEN: You'll come out wanting a shower
- reviewed by Venus Stephens

Anyone suffering from writer's block may envy writer /director Joel Herbert's flow of dramatic invention. With the Outfit Theatre Company, his Little White Men has achieved a 'novella' of attention sparking mayhem.

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Civic Theatre, Auckland - THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Astounding
- reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe

Raw, deliciously outrageous and self-defining, Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show has churned out the songs that have driven many mild mannered folk insane for 37 years. In Auckland a mix of die-hard fans and 'Rocky virgins' came together pumped up in anticipation of a wild opening night. They got one.

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70 Cable St (opp. Te Papa), Wellington - EVERYTHING IS OK: It has scale but rarely engages
- reviewed by Helen Sims

... So in order to avoid just recounting what happens, which I think would ruin the experience of seeing this show as it is comprised of layers of surprises, I'll describe aspects that stood out instead.

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Circa One, Wellington - ME AND ROBERT MCKEE: McGee is back with urbane new play
- reviewed by Laurie Atkinson

Me and Robert McKee, Greg McGee's long-awaited return to the theatre, is a funny, moving, elaborately structured and highly entertaining crossword-puzzle kind of a play about writing for film - and of course, theatre.

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Circa One, Wellington - ME AND ROBERT MCKEE: Elusive, allusive and ephemeral
- reviewed by John Smythe

It's a wonderfully elusive beast, Greg McGee's Me and Robert McKee. The minute you attempt to describe it, you know it's really about something else. It's as intriguing, attractive and slippery as that brilliant idea artists are forever attempting to capture and trap in their chosen form.

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Centrepoint, Palmerston North - PENALTIES, PINTS AND PIROUETTES: Rough-textured play deftly produced
- reviewed by John Ross

Back in my student days, the male ballet was a regular highlight of annual capping shows, with prop-forward-type blokes in tutus doing the graceful Swan Lake thing (sort of) - and how they must have worked their butts off to get to do it as well as they did! It was wonderfully funny.

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Basement Theatre, Auckland - FRIDAY NIGHT GUILT CLUB: Casual weird ramblings and experimental oddities and stuff
- reviewed by Nik Smythe

It's your classic (i.e. the basement thereof) grungy laid back late nite edgy and experimental alternative stand-up comedy vehicle. Standup comics of all ages try out their latest ideas on a modest crowd of punters, and each other, to typically mixed effects.

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St James Theatre, Wellington - THE NUTCRACKER: A cracker
- reviewed by Deirdre Tarrant

'A tale with a twist' is the sub-title of this revisit to Garry Harris' Nutcracker production first seen here in 2005 and restaged as a farewell season as Harris leaves the company after nine years at the helm.

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Downstage - return season, Wellington - APOLLO 13: MISSION CONTROL: Mankind's clever step
- reviewed by Robyn Gallagher

"APOLLO 13: Mission Control" with its clever combination of comedy, drama and aerospace engineering is back, at Downstage Theatre.

The theatre space has been stripped of its regular seating, with the whole theatre transformed into Mission Control.