Stephen Sinclair

By Stephen Sinclair and Anthony McCarten A comedy about a group of unemployed blokes who decide to become male strippers to improve their financial circumst...

When I first became interested in going to the theatre as an adolescent in the early ‘70s, New Zealand plays were fairly thin on the ground. One of the first...

I’ve been thinking about what New Zealand plays have excited and moved me over the years. Here are some thoughts, in no particular sequence: Have Car Will Tr...

There ought to be more political theatre in New Zealand. The stage is after all first cousin to the soap box: a platform for airing political ideas, fomentin...

Lyricism doesn’t have a strong presence in New Zealand drama – at least, not the kind that gets produced. Baxter wrote some lyrical plays – as you’d expect f...

Yes folks, this is an opportunity to see this unique double bill of one act plays which explore the way in which the new technologies are warping the way we ...

Folks, it’s true – and imminent! Literary Manager of the Auckland Theatre Company Philippa Campbell and Artistic Director Colin McColl have green-lit a works...

Stephen Papps Play Blowing It - Yes indeed folks, old friend and flat mate Steve Papps is playing the role of Jules. This is the latest of a long succession ...

Carl, Jules and Derek are stand up comedians. Starting out in Auckland, they shared dreams, ideas, and a flat, convinced they were changing the world with ev...

After months of planning and applications and budgets and weeks of rehearsal … two great seasons of my play! Wellington turned out for it and the last week i...

It’s true. The fateful day: 14th October. The venues: Lynfield and Green Bay High Schools. The play: “Remain in Light,” my play for drama students. I worked w...

… during which I co-produced three of my plays and directed two! ‘Twas nice to end with a bang – in the form of a sell-out season of our comedy musical Love ...

The following is the copy of a letter I wrote to a teacher who asked me about the ideas in the play. It might be of interest to someone studying the script, ...

Carl, Jules and Derek are stand up comedians. Starting out in Auckland, they shared dreams, ideas, and a flat, convinced they were changing the world with ev...

A comedy of manners, a drama of betrayal, a search and rescue of contemporary Kiwi issues, The Bach plays out through the minefields of marital strife, sibli...

Written by Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh, Danny Mulheron and Peter Jackson It is an irreverent, outlandish, part-musical satire on showbiz — and while it i...

Misha (Stephen Papps), a once celebrated Russian filmmaker has fallen on hard times. He resolves to leave his homeland in search of a film-friendly country w...

One morning the sun refused to rise. And then the morning after that. And the morning after that. Perhaps it was tired of what it saw, day after day, going o...

By Stephen Sinclair and Stephen Papps An arresting one man show, this is a comedy-drama about an undercover police officer who becomes too successful in his ...

When Russell has starts an affair with the solo mum downstairs,  he sets in motion a series of events which culminate in murder. But who has killed whom?  Dr...