Auckland Theatre Company ( ATC ) is a professional theatre company in Auckland. It was founded in 1992 and since 2016 has been based in ASB Waterfront Theatre in the Wynyard Quarter in central Auckland.
31-487: Auckland Theatre Company (ATC) was established following the bankruptcy of Mercury Theatre Company , Auckland's original professional theatre company which had been the largest subsidised company in the country. Founding Artistic Director was Simon Prast who was there from March 1992 until February 2003. In his time he directed and produced over 60 plays. The first season presented by ATC was in 1993. The season consisted of two New Zealand plays. The first play produced by ATC
62-738: A Category II listing from Heritage New Zealand in 1990. From 1968 to 1991 it was the premises of the Mercury Theatre Company. In 1966 the Auckland Theatre Trust was established by Professor John C Reid . It raised finance to open the building as a professional theatre in 1968. The first production initiated by the theatre was The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie . At least 12 productions were put on annually after this period ranging from children's pantomimes to serious tragedy-dramas including those by Shakespeare and Chekhov . Notable actors who performed at
93-512: A Catholic, Gershwin, A Life in the Theatre, Whose Life is it Anyway?, Just One Last Dance, The Boy Friend You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Importance of Being Earnest, Stage Struck, Father's Day, 50/50, Bremen Coffee, Too Darn Hot, Brecht Songs, The Puny Little Life Show, The Taming of the Shrew, Potiphar's Wife, Between Night and Morning, Hancock's Last Half Hour, Flight of
124-670: A Lovely Day Cinderella, Something's Afoot, Henry IV Part I, Same Time Next Year, State of the Play, Old Kind Cole, Just Between Ourselves, Man Friday, The Naval Officer, Abigal's Party, The Club, Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Privates on Parade, Spider's Web, Writer's Cramp, The School for Scandal, Staircase, Home The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mime over Matter, Bedroom Farce, P and O – 1930, Uncle Vanya, Prisoners of Mother England, Mothers and Fathers, Godspell, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Comedians, Once
155-712: Is Jumpin', Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Slice of Saturday Night, Single Spies, Ladies Night Amadeus, Beckett Conjugal Rights, The Crucible, The Curse of the Wedgecombes, Jekyll and Hyde, M. Butterfly, The Merchant of Venice, A Pack of Girls, Porgy and Bess, Let's Do It, Private Lives, Rick's Bar in Casablanca, The Sex Fiend, Weed, Shadowlands, Via Satellite The Rose Tattoo, Glorious Ruins [REDACTED] Media related to Mercury Theatre, Auckland at Wikimedia Commons ASB Bank Too Many Requests If you report this error to
186-667: Is You, West Side Story, Siamese Twins, School for Clowns, Tales of Hoffmann, The Winslow Boy, Conversations with a Fainthearted Feminist, Peter Pan: The Musical A Streetcar named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Breaking the Code, The Mikado, The Sound of Music, Squatter, I'm Not Rappoport, Les liaisons dangereuses, Gershwin by George, Oedipus Rex, Ladies Night, Gypsy, The Kiss of the Spider Woman The Share Club, The Rivers of China, Bloodknot, Twelfth Night, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Homecoming, South Pacific, Burn This, Beauty and
217-602: Is also used as a space for hire for conferences, onstage dinners, awards nights and graduation ceremonies the Villa Maria Gallery is a secondary function space. The ASB Waterfront Theatre was the recipient of Small Venue of the Year in 2018 presented by EVANZ . Mercury Theatre, Auckland The Mercury Theatre is a theatre in Auckland , New Zealand , located on Mercury Lane, off Karangahape Road . It
248-1024: The Kenneth Maidment Theatre (commonly known as The Maidment) in the Auckland University campus and the Sky City Theatre . Other theatres ATC performed in were Q Theatre , Civic Theatre , Herald Theatre and the Basement Theatre . Auckland Theatre Company offices are located in the lower ground floor of the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall in Balmoral, New Zealand . ATC refit the space to include their administration offices, box office and two rehearsal spaces and moved to this Dominion Road space from Quay Street in December 2010. In 2020
279-785: The Wynyard Quarter . Auckland Theatre Company and Eke Panuku Development Auckland were project partners. Other contributions are the Foundation Partners Auckland Council , ASB Bank and AUT University . Major funders include Creative New Zealand and Foundation North . The project funders are the Edmiston Trust , The Lion Foundation and Lotto NZ . The Founding Corporate Partners are Kensington Swan and Villa Maria , and Platinum Corporate Partners are Cooper and Company , ECC Limited , and Moller Architects . The premier show presented in
310-699: The ASB Waterfront Theatre was the Auckland Theatre Company production of Billy Elliot the Musical , presented by ASB . The first preview was on October 7, 2016, and the official opening was on October 13, 2016. The ASB Waterfront Theatre space is also a venue for hire, with other users including Auckland Arts Festival , Pacific Dance New Zealand, Tempo Dance Festival , New Zealand Opera , New Zealand International Film Festival and touring international productions. The venue
341-576: The Auckland Theatre Company presented an on-line production during the COVID-19 lock down, using the device of a Zoom meeting for the stage. It was adapted by Eli Kent and Eleanor Bishop, who also directed it, with rehearsals and performances carried out online. Auckland Theatre Company has presented co-productions with numerous other organisations, including Auckland Arts Festival , Te Rēhia Theatre Company, Prayas, Proudly Asian Theatre, Pacific Underground and Hāpai Productions. For example in 2022
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#1732780472636372-711: The August Moon, Lysistrata, Hamlet, A Farewell Performance by Francis Batten, Semi-Detached, Marat/Sade, Virtue in Danger, Irma la Douce, The Sun Rises in the West Hadrian, Earth and Sky, Alice in Wonderland, The Price, I Do! I Do!, Dames at Sea, The Ruling Class, The Birthday Party, Othello, Henry IV, Zorba, The National Health, Narrow Road to the Deep North The Hostage, The Lark, Prospect from
403-805: The Beast, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Irving Berlin Show, Madam Butterfly, Nana, Rodgers and Hart, Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, The Three Musketeers, Yerma, Ladies Night A View from the Bridge, The Cherry Orchard, Judy, Faust, Fiddler on the Roof, Courting Blackbird, A Doll's House, Mrs Klein, Our Country's Good, Don Giovanni, The Secret Rapture, The Rover, After the Crash, A Marvellous Party, La serva padrona and The impresario Hamlet, Oracles and Miracles, Shirley Valentine, The Sex Fiend, Turnadot, Carousel, This Joint
434-697: The Godwit, An Enemy of the People, Barbarians, Prisoners of Mother England, Middle Age Spread, Hosanna, Sauce for the Gander, The Immortalist, Glide Time, Bodies, Oliver Aladdin, The Great Kiwi Concert Party, Noel and Cole, Blood of the Lamb, The Silver Screen Blues, Sooty, She Stoops to Conquer, St Mark's Gospel, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Once on Chunuk Bair, The Matchmaker, Einstein, Dracula, Secrets, Tomfoolery, Hot Water, Fresh Recovering Pleasures, Amadeus, Setting
465-956: The Imagination, Blithe Spirit, Super Peg, Hello and Goodbye, Lost in the Stars, Mrs Kiwi Arthur, Glide Time, Julius Caesar, When You Comin' Back Red Ryder, The World of Good, Arsenic and Old Lace, Alpha Beta, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Royal Hunt of the Sun, Mrs Kiwi Arthur Present, The White Cliffs, Rattle of a Simple Man, Cole, Bullshot Crummond, The Cat and the Canary, The Merchant of Venice, Dirty Linen, New Found Land, Middle Age Spread, The Rivals, Ashes, Habeas Corpus, State of Revolution, Private Lives, The Good Doctor, Tomorrow will be
496-604: The Imagination, Death of a Salesman, When the Wind Blows, The Rink, Ordinary Nights in Ward 10, Carmen, Out to Lunch, Agnes of God, Caravan, The Gospel according to Taane, Wild Honey, Coaltown Blues, Sweeney Todd, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Change of Heart, Tosca, Side by Side, Camille, Say Thank-you to the Lady Major Barbara, Stepping Out The Normal Heart, La Traviata, Bert and Maisie Dream of Sussex Downs, The Song
527-592: The Mercury Theatre as it was to close in 1992. Following its closure, Symon Peters and David John Zam formed the company Mercury Playhouse Ltd. to acquire the theatre. They and its general Manager Frank Hobson described the present state of the Mercury building and the theatre's operation, and their plans for the property in an article published in the New Zealand Herald, March 17, 1994. Peters
558-677: The Park, The Magistrate, Tiki and Things That Go Bump, Peer Gynt, Oh What a Lovely War, As You Like It, Forget-Me-Not Lane, Sergeant Musgrave's Dance, The Country Wife, Canterbury Tales MacRune's Guevara, Conduct Unbecoming, Charley's Aunt, Kean, A Man for All Seasons, The Skin of our Teeth, Love's Laour's Lost, Threepenny Opera, Tom-Tom and the Happy Army, You Never Can Tell, There's a Leek in Your Hat, Lulu, Guys and Dolls Jumpers, Hay Fever, The Lady's Not For Burning, The Rocking Cave, The Owl and
589-628: The Pussy Cat, Mister King Hongi, Butley, The Misanthrope, Macbeth, Lear, Annie Get Your Gun You Can't Take It with You, Macbett, A Little Night Music, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Heroes and Butterflies, Three Sisters, Jacques Brel, Absurd Person Singular, The Wizard of Oz, King Lear, Equus, Ground Level, The Sea Horse, Cabaret, An Evening with Katherine Mansfield Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Elephant, London Assurance, Pinocchio's Travelling Circus, The Taming of
620-513: The Razzle, Engaged, L'Italiana in Algeri, Fallen Angels Steaming, Insignificance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 'night Mother, The Real Thing, Summer, Rigoletto, Multiple Choice, Summit Conference, Masterpieces, Manon Lescaut, Footrot Flats, Noises Off, Pack of Women, Sweet Charity, Down an Alley Filled with Cats The Pirates of Penzance, Loving Women, Ballad of Jonas Bones Hay Fever, A Stretch of
651-525: The Shrew, A Marvellous Party, Travesties, The Mouse Man, Kiss Me Kate, Marieken Tarantara! Tarantara!, Happy Arcadia, Savages, Agincourt, Toad of Toad Hall, A Little Night Music, Otherwise Engaged, From Berlin to Broadway, The Duchess of Malfi, Chermin de fer, More Canterbury Tales Trumpets and Drums, Well Hung, The Last of the Knucklmen, Diary of a Madman, Cupid in Transit, Man of La Mancha, A Stretch of
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#1732780472636682-543: The Table, Foreskin's Lament, Cloud Nine, Snoopy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Ladies, Love and Life Armageddon Revisited, A Victorian Music Hall, Pygmallion, Demolition Job, The King and I, Pass the Butler, Objection Overruled, Madama Butterfly, Virginia, King of Hearts, L'elisir d'amore, On Our Selection, What's Entertainment, The Morning Tiger, Chicago, Tooth and Claw, Not About Heroes, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, On
713-577: The building's Edwardian character. The renovations are planned to finish in 2024. The Admirable Crichton, Dark of the Moon, Alfie, Fings Ain't What They Used To Be, The Merchant of Venice, A Flea in her Ear, Wait Until Dark, Caucasian Chalk Circle, There's a Girl in my Soup, Lock Up Your Daughters, Winnie the Pooh An Evening of Mime with Francis Batten, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Under Milk Wood, Toad of Toad Hall, The Crucible, Teahouse of
744-451: The church in the early 2000s, put the building up for sale for 'upwards of' two million dollars. The church withdrew the theatre from the market in 2012. The church subsequently closed the theatre in April 2022 so that it can undergo significant renovations, to both strengthen and modernise the building as a whole, while creating new spaces, restoring it to its original capacity and maintaining
775-497: The play Scenes from a Yellow Peril written by Nathan Joe and directed by Jane Yonge was co-produced with SquareSums&Co and Oriental Maidens. Scenes from a Yellow Peril was about exoticisation and prejudice of East Asians living in New Zealand, made by East Asian artists. Joe says the benefit of the co-production for 'ATC, which is predominantly Pākehā', was it was able to trust relevant communities will be able to inform
806-536: The role until 2021. Jonathan Bielski who has been on staff as CEO since 2019 has been the Artistic Director since 2021, seeing through McColl’s final season. Bielski’s programming began from 2022. Since November 2008, Philippa Campbell has been the ATC's Literary Manager. In September 2016, Auckland Theatre Company opened a purpose built 660-seat performing arts venue, the ASB Waterfront Theatre located in
837-425: The theatre during their careers include Pam Ferris , Lee Grant , Roy Billing , George Henare , Michael Hurst and Ian Mune . Raymond Hawthorne joined the theatre in 1971 and worked as an actor, director and a tutor and became artistic director of the theatre in 1985 until its closure in 1992. Although the theatre steadily attracted visitors, the extravagance of the theatre productions and running costs forced
868-537: The work. Auckland Theatre Company runs a creative learning and youth arts unit. ATC have about 30 staff in leadership, production, marketing and administration. The creative teams and casts for production come in on contract. After Simon Prast’s departure in February 2003, Oliver Driver stepped in as the interim-Artistic Director until the role of Artistic Director was taken over by Colin McColl . McColl held
899-625: Was Lovelock’s Dream Run , written by David Geary and Directed by Raymond Hawthorne . The first international work produced by ATC was presented in 1994; a production of Angels in America , written by Tony Kushner , and directed by Raymond Hawthorne . Raymond Hawthorne also directed the first musical produced by ATC, Kander and Ebb's Cabaret . Before the opening the ASB Waterfront Theatre , ATC presented their shows in many venues around Auckland. The most-used venues were
930-551: Was a director of the City Wise group, which carried out a number of developments at New Lynn and in central Auckland. The group collapsed in 2001 and Symon left for Australia. The Peters family's property speculations and projects led various members into financial crises and subsequent scandals. The records of the Mercury Theatre are now held at Auckland Libraries . In November 2009 the Equippers Church, who bought
961-653: Was home to a theatre company of the same name for two decades. It was built in 1910 by the architect Edward Bartley and is the oldest surviving theatre in Auckland. Built in the Edwardian Baroque style, it was initially known as the Kings Theatre . On being converted into a cinema in 1926, a new entrance was built on Karangahape Road – this is now the Norman Ng Building. The building gained