{"id":634835,"date":"2026-10-19T01:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634835\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T01:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:48:13","slug":"bluey-stage-show-returning-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634835\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluey stage show returning to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>18 Oct, 2026 07:57 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Bluey spread joy across a packed Spark Arena. Photo \/ Tom Grut, Live Nation<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A live adaptation of the hugely popular Bluey TV show will return to New Zealand stages in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Bluey\u2019s Big Play The Stage Show will start at Wolfbrook Arena, Christchurch on April 10 and 11, 2027, before moving on to Wellington\u2019s TSB Arena on<br \/>\n         April 15 and 16, BNZ Theatre, Hamilton on April 19, 20 and 21 and finishing at Auckland\u2019s Spark Arena on April 24 and 25.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The theatrical adaptation of the award-winning Australian children\u2019s television series features puppet versions of Bluey, Bingo, Mum (Chilli) and Dad (Bandit).<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The live show previously toured New Zealand in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 18 Oct, 2026 07:57 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2397,156,117,111,139,69,13382,1305,5433,61,80],"class_list":["post-634835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bluey","tag-entertainment","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-returning","tag-show","tag-stage","tag-to","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}