2025 WRT ‘Season Pass’ available now!
Secure your theatre fix for 2025! Book a ticket for each of our four shows for only $100!
Simply add at least 1 ticket from each show into your booking cart, and the discount will be applied automatically.
OUR SHOWS
Something for everybody
Pip, a locally written adaptation of Charles’ Dickens novel is still to hit the stage later this November!
But there is PLENTY coming up in 2025, including two shows scripted by New Zealand playwrights and another ‘Toybox’ show specifically to keep parents sane during the school holidays!
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Mar 19th-29th 2025
Gryphon Theatre
directed by Ewen Coleman
The fantasy made famous by Disney!
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”
Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block, until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth I, into the drama and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
Wellington Repertory is proud to bring this well-known show to a Wellington stage!
DIAL M FOR MURDER
May 21st-31st 2025
Gryphon Theatre
directed by Neil Brewer
The celebrated murder mystery that inspired Hitchcock’s masterpiece – now on a Wellington stage!
Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Now it seems that the affair is over, but in his jealousy Tony spins a web of suspicion and deception that will tighten around them and ensnare them both in danger, recrimination and murder.
RED RIDING HOOD AND FRIENDS
jul 8th-13th 2025
Gryphon Theatre
directed by Jamie Byas & Devin Stinton
A bit of school holiday fun to entertain young and old alike! Find out this uniquely kiwi take on the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood.
Brought to you by Toybox Theatre, supported by Wellington Repertory.
THE FOX
Jul 9th-19th 2025
Gryphon Theatre
directed by Annabel Hensley
An adaptation by Dunedin playwright Keith Scott of the classic novella from the great D.H. Lawrence.
Rural England 1918. Two women struggle to run a small farm, but they are moderately content. Their comfortable, albeit unfulfilling lives, are disrupted by two visitors. A fox has begun to take their hens and a young soldier arrives. These seemingly unrelated events combine and clash with unexpected consequences.
In a fierce battle of multiple wills, human and animal, body and spirit, Lawrence explores the dynamics of power play when instincts are triggered that are as old as life itself. As his story unfolds, we are drawn into an intriguing and challenging place, dualistic and animistic – a collective world that only Lawrence can create, but about which we must draw our individual conclusions.
THE GREAT GATSBY
Oct 29th – Nov 8th 2025
Gryphon Theatre
directed by Catherine McMeechan
Set in America’s 1920s Jazz Age, narrator Nick Carraway draws from the shadows the ghosts of the wealthy and indulgent lives lived in and around Jay Gatsby’s Long Island mansion.
An adaptation by New Zealand playwright Ken Duncum.
OUR STORY
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Wellington Repertory Theatre Incorporated has been part of the Wellington theatre community for over 90 years.
Our mission is to attract, inspire and engage audiences, performers and supporters through our shared love of theatre. We welcome new members, both on-stage or behind-the-scenes. We aim to grow our audience, produce a variety of shows that appeal to a broad range of people and maintain WRT as a respected voice within the Wellington theatre community. Join Us!Our CommitteeOur NewslettersOur History
