News & Media

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17 March, 2010
Nominations and winners of 2010 NZ Fringe Awards
Nominations are: Best in Dance (supported by Fringe Arts Trust)How to be a Domestic Goddess--winnerFootnote PerforumThricely? Precisely! A Pocketful Of Pips. Best in Music (supported by Radio Active 89FM)Aphelion--winnerGalaxiaHome Best in Visual Art (supported by Resene)The Princess and the...more »
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07 March, 2010
It's been one helluva fest! Awards now named
The last New Zealand Fringe Festival ended with a question mark over its head about whether it would continue. It did, it rocked, and it will continue. Now Fringe 2010 has ended with a glorious bag with the naming of the best of all there is in 2010 and a new inductee for the Fringe Hall of Fame....more »
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07 March, 2010
Nominees announced for 2010 Fringe Awards
The New Zealand Fringe Festival will blow out the candles this Sunday to celebrate the conclusion of its 20th birthday festival.The Fringe Awards 2010 and closing night party will be held 6pm Sunday March 7 at the Paramount Theatre, Courtenay Place Wellington.Fourteen awards will be announced to...more »
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12 February, 2010
All fired up for the Fringe Fest 2010
The cake is out of the oven, the icing has cooled and the candles have been given the blowtorch: It's Fringe Festival time, and what a fine time it is to go nuts for arts, culture and entertainment and celebrate 20 years of the New Zealand Fringe Festival. Featuring one of the broadest...more »
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22 January, 2010
NZ Fringe Festival to launch 20th birthday next Thursday
The New Zealand Fringe Festival 2010 Programme Launch. Thursday January 28 5pm. Mighty Mighty, 104 Cuba St. Media enquiries to Phil Reed, Marketing and Media ManagerPh 04 382 8015, 021 433 432, email marketing@fringe.co.nzThe New Zealand Fringe Festival is set to launch its 20th festival in grand...more »
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23 October, 2009
NZ Fringe Fest gets 75 candles for its 20th birthday cake
Colin 'Pinetree' Meads, Bob Saget and Wolverine are coming. So are pirates, Vikings and gypsies. The Giles family? Well, they're not only coming but also hosting a dinner. And Zeus – the god, not the old pro wrestler with the bung eye – will be hanging in a Wellington...more »
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24 September, 2009
Fringe 2010: We're back and open for business
It's fun living on the Fringe. To be sure, a little less fun when the dollars dry up and the credit crisis gives us the crunch, but when life gives you lemons what do you do? Make lemonade, of course.Making Fringe-flavoured lemonade is just one of the novel approaches being considered to get the...more »