The 2020 season
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A Christmas Carol
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Formed in 1954, Howick Little Theatre is one of Auckland's leading community theatres and a leading company in New Zealand. Each year five main-house plays are staged, many of them premieres, to thousands of people who come from all over Auckland as well as parts of the upper North Island. There are also short-season HLT Studio productions and playreadings.
HLT Studio
The Studio is a bold initiative to showcase talented new directors, emerging actors and new playwrights to be seen.
Delivering edgy, contemporary plays in a more intimate environment, The Studio offers the same great quality entertainment as you have come to expect from Howick Little Theatre.
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Latest theatre news
More newsDON’T MISS ‘DEAD SIMPLE’
Tickets for Peter James’ Dead Simple are flying out the door. Not seen it yet? Buy your tickets now so you don’t miss out on this superb production, directed by Nathan Hey. Read what the BroadwayWorld reviewer said, including ”Don’t miss ...
2021 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT COMING UP
Keen to know what plays will be coming up at HLT in 2021? The details of our annual season launch on Saturday, October 31, will be revealed live “as they happen” on our Facebook page on the night.
BIG BAND FUNDRAISING CONCERTS FOR HLT
Classic big band tunes by Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Glenn Miller, a selection of Latin-American standards and contemporary arrangements of hits by artists such as Queen, Michael Bublé and NZ's own queen of country & rockabilly-soul Tami Neilson will feature in two fundraising concerts at Howick ...
HLT UNDER LEVEL 1
With Auckland moving to Level 1 at midnight on October 7, HLT will be able to relax some of the rules around social distancing and numbers in the theatre building. We will be back to our usual 110 available seats. We ...
NEW SEASON DATES FOR “A CHRISTMAS CAROL”
As a result of the flow-on effects of the Auckland Level 3 lockdown, our final play for 2020, A Christmas Carol, will now open later than expected. It will now play from November 21 to December 12, with two 2pm matinees, on ...