A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
I got to see Robin Henderson Productions’ Dance Animal: Toronto, on stage at Tarragon Theatre, as part of The 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Filled with hilarious Toronto-specific references – ranging from Mayor Ford, to exorbitant real estate and food prices, to the raccoon epidemic – Dance Animal: Toronto is a blast to watch. Continue reading Dance Animal: Toronto (Robin Henderson Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
I was a little nervous before attending my first ever Toronto Fringe Festival performance. But I should not have worried. Even though I went to the show alone, Keith Brown’s engaging Lil Theatre Co production, Absolute Magic, at the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival felt like being at great party with good friends. I found myself laughing and smiling the whole time. Continue reading Absolute Magic (Keith Brown) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
The Annex Theatre is an intimate space. The weathered wooden theatrical house is one of Toronto’s oldest theatre establishments, built in 1888, which is rather fitting for a Shakespearean tale. The Randolph Academy has given The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s classic farce, a modern spin in their 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival production, A Glass Hive: aka the Comedy of Errors.
Continue reading A Glass Hive (Randolph Academy) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
There’s a pun in the title of my silly yum!, also at George Ignatieff Theatre for Toronto Fringe Festival 2016, but it took until hearing someone say it out loud at the very end of the show to hear it. By that point we had seen the tiny, 30-minute show – all little puppets and felted mushrooms and Sims-style noises that sounded like language but were mostly just nonsense, and that, unfortunately, we never really got.
Continue reading my silly yum! (jot and tittle) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
There are many treats to choose from in the theatre dept’s comic production of Inch of Your Life: Episode 1 at the Toronto Fringe Festival — take your pick between the feel-good piano music, lively banter between characters, and winking celebration of family in all its awkward, heartwarming chaos.
Continue reading Inch of Your Life: Episode 1 (the theatre dept.) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review