A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Grande Midlife Mocha Latte, produced by 1978 Bad Ass Bitches, is a one-woman show that still manages to develop a wide range of characters with rich backstories. Watching it, I felt the wonderful magic that occurs when great writing and superb performance come together. If you are interested in seeing any plays at the Toronto Fringe Festival, I would place this gem high on your list.
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Everything There is to Know produced by Musicals Canada is the newest musical by playwright Aaron Jensen, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s a coming of age, adventure story about Sophie, a 10 year old girl, and the imaginative stories that we tell.
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Jennifer McKinley is a phenomenal storyteller and expert wordsmith. Her one-woman show Operation SUNshine, in this year’s Toronto Fringe, is as radical as it gets.
It’s an arresting dark comedy that sheds light on the seedy underbelly of Toronto crime in the 1980s and 90s. Join Jennifer as she shares a devastating part of our collective memory we’d rather not think about, even though the conditions that enabled these crimes to happen haven’t gone away.
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Don’t let the ‘Audience Participation’ warning keep you away from Butt Kapinski, (Kapinski Enterprises), playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. I hate audience participation but I loved it here. It goes way beyond participation; the entire audience is part of the show. Tonight we were terrific. Of course we had Deanna Fleysher to direct us. She’s amazing. Continue reading Butt Kapinski (Kapinski Enterprises) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
Adventure Theatre Danceband presents “The Fateful Agenda!” is playing at the 2017 Toronto Fringe. After losing his wife, the producer of a rag tag group of traveling dancers struggles to keep the Danceband going on his own. The audience helps him out by choosing the course of the show!
With a simple show description of “A rowdy gem of choose-your-own…” I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but I knew it was going to be an exciting way to end a long day of Fringe reviewing.