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10 - 20 Sep

TAHI festival 2025

The 2025 TAHI Festival lineup has dropped! Get ready for a fresh wave of unforgettable solo performances.

Coming up

17 - 20 Sep

Over and Out

"NEVER become a truck driver!" - A young Jackson Burling took that advice, avoiding the fork in the road, but now, after a long and gruelling two year slog in the arts industry he must confront that age old question: "why not, Dad?" - and take us alo

17 - 20 Sep

HATCH

TAHI Festival’s student showcase, HATCH, champions our next generation of solo performers. Discover these Six new fresh voices and bold stories.

26 Sep

NZIF Opening Gala

Kick off the Festival in style!

26 - 27 Sep

Fresh Produce

The next generation of local improv talent take the stage!

26 Sep

Echoes of the past

Join us to witness how past events echo through places and generations, from simple heirlooms to people and their actions.

27 Sep

Hexaflexagon

A high-art, high-energy improv show drenched in neon colours and backed by a hyperpop soundtrack.

27 Sep

Kōrero Paki

Crack open a cold one and get set for a night of mean kōrero, cheeky banter and wild improv set in a garage party.

27 Sep

Ginge & Minge's Redemption

The comedy pitches no one else could handle

30 Sep

Split Bill: Sohn Zone & D.E.I.'s

A married couple takes flight | the diversity quota fights back

30 Sep

Swingers

Real couples. Real improv. Real kissing (if that’s what they’re into).

30 Sep

Split Bill: Friends to the End & The Lighthouse

A life and death combination: one show about death, one show about life

1 Oct

Bonfire

Bonfire: a circle of voices and a spark of memory. Stories rise from the warmth of shared heritage, inviting connection through imagination, ancestry, and the magic of collective creation.

1 Oct

The Music Made Me Do It

Do you like the volume heavenly high or hellishly hushed?

1 - 3 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!

2 Oct

Oops! All Donkeys

Find your inner donkey, and other donkeys as well, and let them heal.

2 Oct

Living is like...

How do two people feel about their lives and each other?

3 Oct

It's Alive!

A fully improvised show for kids with live puppetry and real science experiments!

3 Oct

Christmas in October

Join a hand-picked selection of guests from across the Festival as we unwrap a series of delightful surprises

3 Oct

Tarot

How will you play the cards you're dealt?

3 Oct

Let's Get Visual! (An NZSL Interpreted Improvised Show)

Experience the joy of improvised theatre as we create an interactive and visual performance with this NZSL-interpreted show celebrating inclusivity.

4 Oct

The Dictionary of Moments

Look up a word and find a story.

4 Oct

The Made-Up Smackdown: Favourites Box

The audience picks from the Made-Up Smackdown come back for one final bout!

4 Oct

Scene Painting

For the final show of the Festival, we're painting the town red. And orange. And yellow, green, blue, pink and purple.

4 Oct

Bull Rush

With a roster of Tāmaki Makaurau's best and brightest performers, expect spit-take-worthy gags, epic stories, heartbreaking tales, and live improvised music at Bull Rush.

7 - 12 Oct

ONE BEDROOM AVAILABLE...

Seeking flatmate - must be open-minded, respectful, and willing to sacrifice autonomy. Viewings all week, hope you’re the chosen one.

14 - 19 Oct

What the world needs now...

An exploration of LOVE through songs from stage and screen.

31 Oct

Rave to the Grave

Fund-Raise the Dead. BATS and RadioActive.FM are teaming up this Halloween for a a night of frights, fun, and floor-shaking frequencies.

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