GIG GUIDE

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

THIS WEEK

Blackened Metallica Tribute - Harbinger

Smash Palace Saturday April 15, 8.30pm, Tickets $15, Door $20, Under 18s free (with a guardian).

Midwave Breaks

The Dome, May 13, 8pm.

COMING UP

Mix it Up!

Trad dance to live music, Girl Guide Hall, 181 Palmerston Road. April 22, 7pm - 10pm.

New Zealand Army Band

Tairāwhiti Community Concert, Gisborne Boys’ High School, Thursday, May 4, 7pm. Free tickets from Eventfinda.

The Chardonnay Affair - Rendezvous on The Chardonnay Express

Gisborne Railway Station, Grey St, Sunday 28 May, 12.30pm – 5.00pm.

NZ Highwaymen

War Memorial Theatre, June 1, 8pm. Tickets from Eventfinda.

THEATRE

The Wolves, by Sarah de Lappe

Unity Theatre, Ormond Road. Opening night April 21. Tickets on sale at Eventfinda, adults $27, students $24, concession for a group of 10 or more $22.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Centre Stage presents the iconic

rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. War Memorial Theatre, April 27 to May 6. Tickets from ticketek.co.nz or Gisborne i-SITE.

Chicago - The Musical

Musical Theatre Gisborne present Chicago - The Musical, War Memorial Theatre, May 19-27. Book at i-Site or ticketek

Kita Mean - Delightfully Camp!

Join Rupaul Drag Race Down Under’s season 1 winning queen on a whirlwind of pop parodies, stand-up hilarities and mental clarities. Lawson Field Theatre, Friday April 21, 8pm Tickets from Eventfinda.

VISUAL ARTS

Lightscapes

Exhibition by Zoe Alford, Tairāwhiti Museum, until June 11.

Ka Waiata Au

Erena Koopu’s exploration of waiata in paint. At Tairāwhiti Museum until April 26.

Colours Deluxe

Celebrating the achievement of Sarah and Edward Featon of Gisborne, who in the 1880s undertook an ambitious project to describe and paint New Zealand’s flowering plants. At Tairāwhiti Museum until June 25.

ODEON MULTIPLEX

Mafia Mamma

Toni Collette stars as a mild-mannered suburban mum who inherits her grandfather’s mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere, she defies everyone’s expectations as she finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war.

Suzume

Japanese animated adventure film in which a high school girl and a mysterious young man try to prevent a series of disasters across Japan.

The Pope’s Exorcist

The film is based on Father Gabriele Amorth’s memoirs An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories. Russell Crowe plays Amorth, an Italian Catholic priest and exorcist of the Diocese of Rome who claimed to have performed thousands of exorcisms. Franco Nero plays the Pope.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Hugh Grant star in the tale of a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who undertake a heist to retrieve a lost relic.

Argonuts

In a port city of ancient Greece, the people are threatened by the wrath of Poseidon. A young mouse and the cat who adopted her will help old Jason and his Argonauts save the city.

Super Mario Bros

Chris Pratt is the voice of Super Mario in this video-game-to-film adaptation from Illumination. Seth Rogen and Jack Black also voice characters.

Allelujah

Jennifer Saunders, Derek Jacobi and Judi Dench star in this adaptation of an Alan Bennett play. Proposed closure of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital prompts the community to invite a news crew to film preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse.

Air

Ben Affleck directs Viola Davis, Matt Damon, Marlon Wayans, Jason Bateman and himself in this sports biopic about the partnership between Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division.

Red, White & Brass

A Tongan fan will do anything to get tickets to the Tonga-France Rugby World Cup game, even if it means promising to deliver a brass band for pre-match entertainment.

John Wick: Chapter 4

The seemingly indestructible Wick is in Paris and on the trail of The High Table.

DOME CINEMA

Corsage

Faced with a future of ceremonies and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels and devises a plan to protect her legacy.

Driving Madeleine

Madeleine, 92, calls a taxi to take her to a retirement home. Charles, a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine’s life. Her extraordinary past is revealed in the streets of Paris.

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

London charwoman Ada Harris sees a Dior dress in the wardrobe of one of the houses she cleans, and decides she must have one.

Elvis

Austin Butler channels Elvis Presley in probably the best film so far on the life and music of The King.