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!
PIP
Nov 27th – Dec 7th 2024
Gryphon Theatre
directed byTanya Piejus, Musical Director, Saar Cohen-Ronen
Pip is a brand-new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ much-loved novel, Great Expectations.
Written and orchestrated by a team of talented Wellington creatives, it is a fresh take on the classic story that focuses on the relationships between poor orphan Pip and the wealthy and emotionally damaged recluse Miss Havisham, her beautiful protégé Estella, and the escaped convict Magwitch. It explores the disparity between rich and poor, high and low status in Victorian England as Pip discovers – then loses – a world of privilege beyond his impoverished upbringing, thanks to the largesse of a mystery benefactor.
Wellington Repertory is proud to bring this locally-grown adaptation to a Wellington stage!
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.
In classic style, the story explores the relationship between two women, living together on a farm in postwar England. They are joined by a returning soldier…with a local fox symbolising them all.
The play explores gender roles, sexuality, femininity, and the pity of war, with Scott’s adaptation maintaining the authenticity of Lawrence’s original work.
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
