🎭 Nau Mai, Haere Mai — Welcome to StageAntics 2026!

Ready to step into the spotlight? ✨
Our 2026 StageAntics programme is all about confidence, creativity, connection and bold performance.
No matter what age, whether you’re brand new to the stage or ready to take your training further, we’d love to have you with us.

FIND OUT ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW & REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/pNnndayDP95K7sxm7

Ready to Rock the Stage?

We’re excited to open registrations for our 2026 Production Class in Takapuna, featuring the high-energy hit Camp Rock the Musical!

This programme is open to all 10–16 year olds, with any level of experience — from first-timers to seasoned performers. Everyone is welcome!

🎭 Programme Overview

Our Production Class runs across Term 1 and Term 2, with casting auditions held as part of the class process. This is just over a term-and-a-half commitment (through to late June).

Programme Fee:
💲 $400 incl. GSTPayment plans are available on request.
Students who take private lessons with us are eligible for a multi-class discount.  
Includes: full programme, rehearsals, and a show T-shirt

🕒 Weekly Class Details

Wednesdays
6:00pm – 7:30pm 📍 Belmont Intermediate School
Starting: 18 February

🎟 Production Week & Performance Dates

Venue: The Rose Centre – Belmont
Show Dates:

• 18 June - 20 June

🌟 Optional Opportunity: JTFNZ 2026

This cast will also have the option to attend the Junior Theatre Festival New Zealand in October:
📅 Fri 23 & Sat 24 October

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/zmVeYG4jLqgiHBfGA

StageAntics presents BADJELLY THE WITCH

Adapted by Alannah O'Sullivan
From the book by Spike Milligan
Licensed by Playmarket NZ

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When siblings Tim and Rose set off into the forest to find their beloved cow Lucy, they tumble head-first into a world that is wildly ridiculous, slightly alarming, and completely bonkers.

Enter Badjelly — a cackling, boastful witch who claims she can turn children into sausages, boys into chop suey, and entire forests into her personal kingdom of doom.

(She can’t. Probably.)

Along the way, Tim and Rose meet a parade of peculiar creatures — talking worms, melancholy tree spirits, questionable goblins — and discover that courage, kindness, and a dash of imagination are far more powerful than any witch’s wobbly spell.

Full of anarchic humour, absurd storytelling, and heartwarming bravery, Badjelly the Witch is a delightfully chaotic adventure celebrating the glorious power of imagination.

You can expect outrageous characters through a professional Theatre for Young Audiences experience with full StageAntics sparkle including big laughs for little humans (and even bigger ones for grown-ups)

This is storytelling at its silliest and most sincere — a theatrical romp for tamariki, rangatahi, and anyone who still believes a forest might contain something extraordinary.

Come ready to laugh.
Come ready to imagine.
And whatever you do…

Don’t believe everything Badjelly tells you. 🧙‍♀️✨

WHEN: 9 - 11 April 2026 10:30am | 12:30pm | 6:30pm
WHERE: The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna
TICKETS: ON SALE SOON

Two Show in a Week Productions!!! Really???

We’re excited that following opening registrations for our 2026 Invercargill Show in a Week we have the numbers to open a second production for the same time.

This programme will see two productions
🎭 8–13year olds
🎭 14 - 18year olds

and are open to performers with any level of experience — from first-timers to seasoned performers. Everyone is welcome!

🎭 Programme Overview

Our Show in a Week runs intensively across a week with casting workshops held as part of the workshop process. The Week is fulltime - 9am - 5pm with three public performances at the end of the week.

FIND OUT ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW & REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/e9zJr86JEzVgrfGz8

Welcome to the underworld… where the road is long, the wind is cold, and a song just might change your fate.

Hadestown: Teen Edition is a bold, electrifying folk-opera that intertwines two mythic love stories — young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and the powerful, complicated bond between Hades and Persephone.

Set in a world where industry rules and hope is a radical act, Orpheus journeys to the underworld to rescue Eurydice, armed with nothing but his music and an unshakeable belief that love can light the darkest places.

With haunting melodies, driving rhythms, and a story that feels both ancient and urgently now, Hadestown: Teen Edition is a powerful celebration of resilience, community, and the courage it takes to hold onto hope.

Raw. Riveting. Unforgettable.

Come see why we tell the story again. 🎶✨

WHEN: 4 - 6 June 2026
WHERE: The Pumphouse Theatre
TICKETS: ON SALE SOON!

StageAntics Goes International!
Melbourne, musicals, and memories in the making
We’re calling for Expressions of Interest to represent StageAntics at Junior Theatre Celebration (JTC) Melbourne 2026 travelling with Travel Gang!

Open to StageAntics whānau aged 11–18
Any level of experience welcome
An unforgettable international theatre adventure

28 July – 2 August 2026
Workshops, festival events, theatre tours & a professional show
Train, connect, perform, represent!

Keen to be part of the team?
Register your interest here
https://forms.gle/oJNZAosMww9askjU8

Spots will be limited — don’t miss your chance to take StageAntics to Melbourne