Music

If Hannah wasn’t performing as a stand-up, her comedy could easily migrate into the sitcom genre, because for an hour you are introduced to her quirky social shortcomings, her background of small-town Smithton…

Wilson Dixon sidles out onto the Sky City Theatre stage and sets up on a stool, on a rug with his guitar on his knee and a banjo sitting by his side. It’s a truly picturesque, middle-American scene…

Attending the New Zealand School of Dance performances in Wellington are a treat and the opening night of Sketch was no exception. Raw and mesmerising, the choreography and dancers showed intense raw angst…

Terry Frisby, playing the Comedy Festival 2011, has lived his life as a TV Whore. It started with Telethon in Invercargill and continued after he left New Zealand shores for life in the UK…

The first time I went to a musical was in 1988. Over 20 years later, I revisited that feeling, wearing my new beige suede platform wedges, looking up at one of my favourite sights in the world – the Civic ceiling – and hearing, once again…

If you can only see one show in the comedy festival – make it The Boy with Tape on his Face. You will regret it if you miss out find he has left our shores again for the UK. The show is exhilarating, cheeky and unique…

As always it was the banter that followed at 7 Days Live at Comedy Festival that brought about some of the biggest laughs, with Osama Bin Laden, Barrack Obama, Don Brash and Rodney Hide all sitting ducks in both teams’ comedy crosshairs…

With musical numbers, merging his very obvious musical skill with his acerbic wit and a bit of improvisation for good measure, Jeremy Elwood’s (Un)common Sense is an entertaining hour of social commentary…

If you’re not a sensitive soul, and you like to see a good debunking, then Carey Marx is your man in this year’s comedy festival with his gentle banter, and his dangerously cheeky smile and then when you’re not expecting any controversy…

Arj Barker’s Eleven begins with a bluesy harmonica solo – at which he is very adept – and this musical motif recurs throughout the show creating a loosely chaptered one-hour set broken up by a smattering of blues-styled pastiches…