The Howland Company‘s Entrances and Exits, currently playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, has a simple premise. Act one takes place in a living room, and involves characters coming in and out of doors at random intervals. Act two flips the scene to the other side of the door, and in classic farce style, lets the audience in on what’s been happening in the other room during the first act. The twist? It’s entirely improvised by the cast. Continue reading Entrances and Exits (The Howland Company) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review →

What you see is what you get with Adam Schwartz, who references his lack of a filter and propensity for truth-telling repeatedly in his stand-up fringe show, Aspergers: More Tales of a Social Misfit. Playing the Annex Theatre as part of this years Toronto Fringe Festival, Schwartz’s short set is a set-up-and-knock-down series  of jokes about how his Aspergers affects his life, what he’s learned and, of course, his mother.

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D&D Live!, produced by Sex T-Rex, is playing as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. Before getting into this review, I should admit my own bias. I’m a big fan of Toronto sketch troupe Sex T-Rex. And I’m an even bigger fan of Dungeons and Dragons, with nearly a decade of Dungeon Master (DM) experience under my belt.

D&D Live!, playing at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, seems almost too good to be true.

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The main conceit of ArtworldStudioProduction‘s A Perfect Romance, currently playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is this: two statues of Mars and Venus–also known as  Marte (Aldo Milea) and Venere (Ilaria Passeri)–come to life and reminisce about their past together through the decades, lamenting the fate of the world but also looking forward to the future. This time-transcending meeting between two lovers is told through live music, dance, and poetry.

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The Win at Life Mega Expo (Two Pack Occasion) playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival 

Having money problems? Trouble with your loved one? Suffer from plethoric psoriasis? Then with a small entrance fee of $10,000 dollars (or at a special Fringe price),  The Win at Life Mega Expo will take your money and run with it.

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