What's on

On now

4 Oct
opening night

PopRox

Laughs, drinks, and hot improvisers in three-piece suits, what more could you want?

4 Oct
opening night

Between Friends

True stories shared between the old (old) friends of Best on Tap inspire scenes celebrating the best of truth-based spontaneous theatre created between friends.

4 - 5 Oct
opening night

Fresh Produce

Improv without the impediment of a fully developed frontal cortex!

5 Oct
opens tomorrow

Late Night Knife Fight

Three improv teams face off in a battle for glory, honour, & the audience's favour. We'll bring the knives; you bring the judgement.

5 Oct
opens tomorrow

The Last Days of Jericho Falls

An improvised rock biopic.

5 Oct
opens tomorrow

Muunboot: Welcome to the Shmuckpad

Improv comedy group Muunboot are bringing their podcast to the stage with Welcome to the Schmuckpad - a wild show, packed to the brim with absurdities, bizarre characters and wicked-fast improv!

Coming up

8 Oct

All Aboard!

Welcome to the Festival! Voyage into uncharted waters with a crew of dashing performers from the shows yet to come!

8 Oct

Songs from a Spellbound City

Supernatural creatures grapple with love, rage and temptation in an improvised musical.

8 Oct

Kōrero Paki

Settle in for an evening of yarn spinning and storytelling from a spontaneous tira whakaari.

9 Oct

It's us, in the end

This is the end. What would you do with your last hour?

9 - 11 Oct

The Made-Up Smackdown

Teams of improvisors meet for the first time in a no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag-out, bare-knuckle brawl! Of improv!

9 Oct

Bodyworks

Experience Bodyworks, a genre-defying movement piece that delves into the beauty, challenges, oddities and stories of living in our unique bodies.

10 Oct

Grab Bag!

The Festival favourite mix-and-match show is back!

10 Oct

Pulsión — a Sensory Universe

Perúvian improviser Andrea Ferpo uses objects from the audience to explore the lives of women.

10 Oct

There Used to be Magic, Once

The old stories say that there used to be magic, once. It is no longer safe to discuss this openly. There is a guide who claims to know their way to an ancient source. A small group of travellers is following the guide, each for reasons of their own.

11 Oct

100 Things

3 actors. 60 minutes. 100 things. Can they do it?

11 Oct

Chronically Ill-Prepared

Are you feeling better yet? Join us on an improvised journey through the beauty and chaos of life.

11 Oct

Meet the Filipinos

The show is based on the Filipino custom of “pamamanhikan,” which is the meeting of the two families before the wedding. It’s an interactive show where the audience gets to decide on the fate of the couple using their red and green flags to vote.

12 Oct

The Royal Fakespeare Company

The most authentically inauthentic Shakespeare show, made up on the spot.

12 Oct

This Might Get Weird (Closing Show)

It's the end of the Festival! Come join us to send it off in style!

12 Oct

Improv Masala

A Bollywood masala movie live on stage, created on the spot by a multi-ethnic cast of Kiwi improvisers!

12 Oct

The Ex-Husbands Of Wilhelmina Williams/That 90s Sitcom

Wilhemina Williams is making her triumphant return home after 4 decades away and much musical success in many countries. Become the live studio audience for everyone's favourite, nostalgic 90's sitcom.

16 - 19 Oct

Sister Wives

Based on a true NZ Story, Sister Wives reveals in the depths of twisted love, the indomitable strength of sisterhood and the disquieting realisation that darkness can lurk in familiar corners.

31 Oct - 2 Nov

Hardly Workin'!

One clown and one DJ come together for a hectic mess about the joys found between 9 and 5.

7 - 9 Nov

CHOP SHOP

Your friendly neighbourhood special featuring a star-studded cast of Pōneke’s prettiest comedy people.

23 Nov

Twilieght - The Loca Edition

Our saviour Stephenie Meyer queened out when she wrote the saga that is Twilight. Come and unpack the comedic masterpiece that is, Twilieght.

26 - 30 Nov

THE MILKYVERSE

Legends return, normies become heroes, and the fates of all worlds are being hung out to dry in season six of the MILK saga.

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