Emma & Stephen chatted with

• Rose and Jemma-Kate from Stray Theatre Company’s latest production “Much Ado About Nothing”

• Cole Johnston catches us up with his work around Aotearoa including the Auckland Artists Network

• Richard Green fills us in about all things Kete Aronui & The Factory Theatre

• Author Kimberly Andrew’s talks about her lastest book “Goose the Artist”

Plus we play a whole lot of kiwi music as it’s NZ Music Month!

Emma & Stephen chatted with

- Maryanne, Bridget, Grace and Reuben from @papakuratheatrecompany’s “Dusty: The Orginial Pop Diva Musical”;

- Author David Burt about his book “Embedded”

- Kiwi Singer Songwriter Harry Burt

- Alisha & Ayesha from @prayastheatrenz production of “Dhaba on Devon Avenue”

And we play a whole lot of Mother’s Day Music...

This episode Stephen & Emma catch up with:

• Kevin Keys from Auckland Theatre Company’s encore season of “Grand Horizons”

• Calum Gittins & Venetia Clark from Potent Pause Production of “The Homecoming”

• Edith Fumarola & Adam Pereira from Covert Theatre’s puppet comedy “Covid Response Team”

• Singer/songwriter Ophelia Muller

• Chloe joins us with her poetry reviews

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This episode Stephen & Emma catch up with:

• writer Susan Waddell & illustrator Rose Northey about their book “The Lighthouse Princess”

• NZ singer songwriter ELCEE

• NZ author, activists from designer Nora West about her book “Unholy Business”

• Producer Patrick Kelly & Actor Kazim Khan from Harmonious Events, Studio & Musicals discuss Boosted and their show “Christmas is Coming”

• Katie, Rose & Adam from the cast of St Peter’s College & Marist College production of “Grease the Musical”

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This episode Stephen & Emma catch up with:

• Joshua, Lily and Nathan from Manukau Performing Arts “Singin in the Rain JR”

• Josh, Benny and Megan from Navi Collaborative’s “The Potential for Rain”

• Jack and Nick from NZ Band Sin City Band

• Producer Conor Dunbar from Mouthful and the Miniature Comedy Featival

• We catch up with Meg from The PumpHouse Theatre about the Masterclass series,

• we have loads of bulletins and Sharon is back with her book reviews

This episode Stephen & Emma catch up with:

• NZ Booklovers Award winner Lucy Corry

• NZ Band TOOMS

• Author Tina Clough about “The Shadow Brokers”

• Meg & James from The Pumphouse Theatre about their upcoming Masterclass Series

• Author Sally Sutton about her new children’s book “Crane Guy”

This episode Stephen & Emma catch up with:

• Doug Kamo from DKCM about “The Hundy Concert Series”

• Author Eileen Merriman about “Black Spiral”

• Author Catherine Lea about “The Water’s Dead”

• Pictorial Curator Shaun Higgins from the Auckland Museum

• Writer, performers, dancer, radical artist Alexa Wilson

This week Emma & Stephen caught up with:

• Patricia Bell Author about her debut novel 'The Library of Unfinished Business'

• creator / composer Leon Radojkovic chat about LIVE LIVE CINEMA: THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - LOCKDOWN EDITION with Silo Theatre, Auckland Arts Festival & Jumpboard Theatre

• cinematographer / writer/ director Max Van der Westhuizen

• Cissy Rock from Neighbours Day Aotearoa

• Edith Fumarola from Covert Theatre

• Sharon is also back with her book review of Catherine Lea's 'The Water's Dead"

This episode Stephen & Emma catch up with:

• Author Sasha A. Linderon aka Ashley and Sarah about their debut novel "When the Rain Falls"

• Comedy improvisers Greg Ellis and Stephen Youngblood

• Makeup / Special Effects Artist Yolanda from BODY FX

• Jo Pilkington from First SceneAll this and a whole lot of kiwi music

This week Emma & Stephen catch up with four of the 2022 NZ BookLovers Award shortlisted authors:

• Steph Matuku 'The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke'

• Pania Tahau-Hodges 'The Greatest Haka Festival on Earth'

• Andy Southall 'Both Feet in Paradise'

• Angelique Kasmara 'Isobar Precinct'

and we have surprise visits from Steve Lyons and Zane Nathan....

This week Emma & Stephen talk with:

• Singer/songwriter/producer/host Ralphe

• 2022 Margaret Mahy Medal Awardee author Diana Noonan

• Actor, director, writer Bentley Stevenson about Wet Dreamz - The Musical

• Brick Haus Productions NZ Genoveva and Bella about their three upcoming productions at New Zealand Fringe Festival

Emma catches up with

• Cassandra Woodhouse from @nztheatrecompany

• Director Isla Frame about their production Sappho: Lesbians & Lyres

• Andy from ChCh band Bad Llamas

• Actor/ Singer / Writer @manukaluitenapirana

• TikTok / Instagram dancers @joshnlou

• Plus we drop the latest single from @lunavelanz and Ralphe

This week Emma & Stephen chat with:

• Rebekah from Embers Collective about their upcoming season of ‘Stop Kiss’

• Matt Billington from the Playhouse Theatre Trust

• Tom & Jackson from Kiwi band FloorFive

• Beth Kayes from CoPhysicalTheatre about their new work ‘Drama Gone Viral’

As we are back in red all interviews are prerecorded...

Emma & Stephen chat with

• Hayden Tee - “Bad Guy” Auckland Live

• Miss Manage & Miss Givings - Les Femmes “Sirens of the Silver Screen” Auckland Live

• Ania Upstill “To Much Hair”

• Zone Fleming (producer) & Matt Baker (Director) “The Women in Black” Masked Productions

This week Stephen and Blake talk with

• Sam Cullen

• Maddi Claire

• Catherine Waller from The Creep Show

• Aria and James from Shoreside Theatre Company’s Summer Shakespeare

Stephen and Taylor catch up with:

• Emma from Dunedin

• some of the cast of Kids4Drama Addams Family Musical

• Writer/ performer Lucy Dawber from “Hardly Working”

• Wendy Preston and Laya Rasooli from Mixit Theatre Company’s “Voices”

• Henry joins us with his book reviews

And we drop new tracks from Charlotte Oldershaw and Bad Llamas

Emma & Stephen chat with

• Sebastian from Clovis Music

• Albert Belz - Playwright, Screenwriter, Dramaturge, Raconteur

• Nicolette, Caleb & Jack from Bravi Theatre’s “Dogfight”

Emma & Stephen were back live in studio to recap the year that was and to welcome our new intern Blake

Our recap included three favourite interviews from:

• singer/songwriter Chris Bates

• author Dr Hinemoa Elder

• actor/creatives Amelia and Shadon from Sos and Sha Creative
  
  Also two favourite moments:

• Theresa from the cast of Wicked - Auckland sings live

• Ant Tarrant and Steven Lyons improvising “The Magpie Song” using inspiration from Kate Parker’s new book

We also drop a new single from Butter Wouldn't Melt

And caught up with some of last weeks guests to find out what actually was under their trees at Xmas

Join Emma & Stephen as they talk all things 2021 and Christmas with some very special KickArts friends and whanau

• actor, director Taylor Rogers

• actor TJ Snow

• singer, performer Jamie Cottingham

• dancer, choreographer, teacher Quinn Annemans

• book reviewer Sharon Sykes

• musician, musical director Zyia-Le Teh

• musician, répétiteur Da-Hae Kim

• teacher, stage manager Nick Smit

• teacher, KickArts host James Devereaux

Join Emma & Stephen as they catch up with:

• author, filmmaker David Whittet

• author Sue Allison

• author Nicola McCloy

• Chelsea from Alphabet Book Club

• Artistic Director Sophie Robert’s with the 2022 Silo Theatre Programme