2024 Centrepoint turns 50!
Get ready for a whole year of entertaining shows and celebrating our 50th year of producing incredible theatre in Manawatū.
Kia ora!
50 years of creating professional theatre in the mighty Manawatū, bringing actors from across New Zealand and the globe to show that Palmerston North is the place to be! This year we celebrate our birthday by putting on some nostalgic shows, tense dramas, and some side splitting new works which we are sure you will love!
See you in 2024,
The Centrepoint Team
2024 SEASON
2024 SEASON
A psychedelic blast from the past!
Cringeworthy is back, transporting you to the GROOVIEST era of all, the swinging ’60s!
Following on from Cringeworthy the ’70s and ’80s, this show is a FAR-OUT tribute to Kiwiana music and culture in the ’60s.
A Shrew’d New comedy by Will Shakespeare
Sicily’s beloved King Enzo is dead. Now Princess Rosa, a stroppy spinster, must navigate the tempestuous waters of belching stepfathers, lusty suitors, popping cod pieces and menopausal witches, to face her destiny.
Something has to change.
Tessa is a criminal defence lawyer at the top of her game and loving it: defending, cross-examining, and playing the rules of the law to win. But when the tables turn she finds herself at the mercy of the very system that she has dedicated her life to, shadows of doubt are illuminated, making us question, who is our legal system serving?
Theres no place like a small NZ town
Childhood sweethearts Kaia and Pascoe don’t have much in common. But when life doesn’t bring them all they had hoped for, they soon discover it is music that will get them through and love that will bring them back together.
Jackie goes Prima Diva
Homegrown chanteuse Jackie Clarke turns her powerhouse vocals, wicked humour and maverick entertainment style to interpret the songs of the 20th and 21st Centuries most legendary divas.
Where everybody knows your name…
The iconic (and only) Karaoke bar in Palmerston North has just been sold!
The new owners are out-of-towners and the words “Asian Fusion restaurant” are muttered. What will happen to the late-night drinks, the chicken wings and the beloved annual karaoke competition?