A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Best Picture is a Toronto Fringe Festival 2016 play about movies — specifically, all the movies that have been awarded the honour of Best Picture at the Academy Awards since its inception in 1927.
That makes 88 movies to cover in a mere 60 minutes.
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Everything Else is Sold Out, this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival offering from the almost-unGoogleable sketch comedy troupe Dame Judy Dench, marks the group’s third Fringe outing after last year’s well-reviewed That’s Just 5 Kids In a Trench Coat! Playing at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, the show entices with a risky, self-deprecating title. It’s also an ironic one, as this well-crafted, sharply hilarious set of sketches promises to deservedly be one of this year’s hottest tickets.
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To procreate, or not to procreate? In All KIDding Aside (Christel Bartelse/DutchGirl Productions), currently running at the Toronto Fringe Festival, Christel Bartelse (creator of previous Fringe shows Chaotica and ONEymoon) takes to the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace stage to make the biggest decision of her life.
The supernatural comedy Angels and Aliens, from Active Salad Productions is making its Toronto debut at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016.
When roommates Sydney (Sydney Hayduk) and Jeff (Jeff Leard) have sex, they avoid their awkward morning-after breakfast by downloading a two-player world building game, iBang, where they become the governors of a new evolving planet; Sydney is in charge of Aliens, and Jeff of the Angels. As their relationship worsens, so do the conditions of their fictional world, which closely resembles that of our own deteriorating earth. Continue reading Angels and Aliens (Active Salad Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
I realized not long after deciding to add Moose + Moa’s Art of Being Alone to my itinerary for this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, that I’ve seen this one-man show before with another Mooney contributor. Feeling much like I was about to reconnect and commiserate with an old friend, I entered this show expecting a good time.
Just as I remembered.
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