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New Zealand Fringe Festival - Latest News [Page 4]

The Kincaid Weekender (Cinema in Decline)

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:49 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Start each weekend of the Fringe in the company of the Pleasant White Men from the sleepy hamlet of Kincaid! Cock an ear to this comfy, old-fashioned radio show from Jonny Potts (Let Us Reappraise Famous Men). More >>

Jimmy James Eaton and Jason Geary: Sketch-ual Healing

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Award-winning stand up comedians and improvisors Jason Geary and Jimmy James Eaton are joining forces to split the sides of this year’s Festival with Sketch-ual Healing. Rapid fire voices, characters and quips, you’ll be quoting for weeks. ****1/2 Stars ... More >>

Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:37 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls is sink or swim comedy. Humbly presenting for you an extensive selection of fresh sketch comedy, raunchy stand up and a friendly young man with out his clothes on for about 10 minutes. More >>

Meatatrtian Yogi – A Hypocrite’s Guide to Happiness

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:35 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Has Tony Robbins let you down? Did ‘The Secret’ ruin your life? The relentless pursuit of happiness will only make you miserable. Embrace your inner bush-pig. Laugh at death and kick inner peace in the face. Namaste! More >>

Mike Lindsay Magician: Mayhem Ahead!

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

For the first time, Mike (The Kiwi Magician) brings his hilarious adult comedy magic show to Wellington. Magic, illusions, comedy, audience participation, live animals and most of all . . . downright Mayhem! More >>

Charmingly Useless – Neil Sinclair

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Charmingly Useless – Neil Sinclair (Angela Mary Claire) – COMEDY The Fringe Bar, 26-32 Allen Street, Wellington CBD 10pm, 12-15 Feb (50mins) BOOKINGS: www.fringe.co.nz / TICKETS: $15/10/5/1.50 Award winning stand up comedian, Neil Sinclair, comes to ... More >>

Sabrina D'Angelo - Why Do I Dream?

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:24 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Following a smash hit season at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2013, Australian body-poet Sabrina D’Angelo makes her NZ Fringe Festival debut with the dazzlingly absurd physical comedy, Why Do I Dream? Described as ‘Kate Bush meets Mr Bean’, Sabrina ... More >>

Vinyl Burns Variety Hour

Thursday, 16 January 2014, 1:21 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

An intimate hour with superstar celebrity lady slayer, the Reverend Dr. Vinyl Burns. More >>

The Mackenzie Morgan Advice Dispensary open for business

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Professor Mackenzie Morgan is clearly not qualified to solve her own problems, let alone yours. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t going to try in this New Zealand Fringe Festival koha show. More >>

Respite – A monologue by Eamonn Marra

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 2:00 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

19 Tory St Gallery 14th, 15th, 16th February 7pm koha bookings: email eamonnmarra+fringe@gmail.com More >>

Nothing to be Done: Half dry, half sassy and mostly funny

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 1:57 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Made in England. Raised in South Africa and Brazil. Studied in Wellington and lived in New York. Luwita Hana Randhawa may be Malaysian, but her international and nomadic background feeds well into her personality and her comedy. More >>

Alexander Sparrow: How To Pick Up Women

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 1:45 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

How To Pick Up Women , a world class seminar on seduction, will be premiering as part of the 2014 New Zealand Fringe Festival and performed from 5-8 February at Fringe Bar, Allen Street. Alexander Sparrow - writer and comedian - will embody the minds ... More >>

Famous Sharron: The Darling of Fringe & Queen of the Selfie

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

They might claim that the word selfie originated in Australia in 2002, but we all know it was coined by Perth’s own, Famous SHARRON back in 1995, when she first took a photo of herself at the Year 11 School Social. That was the night she met ... More >>

Bowls Club Jazz

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 1:25 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A Kiwi and an Aussie walk into a bar. That bar was Fringe Bar, and this is no joke. It's Bowls Club Jazz. A whirlwind of comedy, music and mayhem from two blokes you've probably never heard of. The Slow Diagonals are a music comedy duo based in Melbourne, ... More >>

BINGO with BALLS

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 1:20 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Unleash your inner bogan. This show is BBQ’d steak and chips mix of comedy, rock music, crowd interaction and bingo. Rock out to all your old school favourite songs and join in the b*stardised version of all the traditional bingo calls. More >>

One Night Stand

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A new show everynight, you’ll never see the same thing twice! Featuring talented comedians from around NZ, try your luck and see if you end up with one, two or a whole bevy of comics making funnies! More >>

Madame Pandemonium presents: Pundemonium

Friday, 10 January 2014, 2:02 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A team of comedians, a team of improvisers and a game show host walk into a bar….and what sounds like a set up for bad punch line becomes a night of hilarity and fun . This Fringe Festival Understudy at Bats hosts the game show Pundemonium for one ... More >>

TransTasman duo will perform ‘Literally Anything’

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:57 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Brooks & Brown are a brand new transTasman duo who have no idea what their show is going to be about. Christine Brooks from Wellington and Rik Brown from Melbourne had so much fun working together at the New Zealand Improvisation Festival in 2013 ... More >>

Here’s a Thing: Late Night Improv

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:53 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

What happens when crack teams of NZ and Australia’s top improvisors join forces for one night only? Magic. More >>

Fringe in the Hutt

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

NZ Fringe 2014 has come to the vibrant Hutt with eight FREE / KOHA events for you to enjoy and experience. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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