A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
A big idea can be a hard thing to tie together. Knots by Vocative Theatre, playing at the Factory Theatre Mainspace as part of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival is inspired by knots, physically, literally, and metaphorically. With moments of poignancy, it is too bad Knots can’t quite juggle all its loose threads.
Continue reading Knots (Vocative Theatre) 2016 Fringe Review
Waiting to see Pirates Don’t Babysit at George Ignatieff Theatre for Toronto Fringe 2016, I enjoyed the wash of that familiar Fringe feeling for the first time this year — a line, a line speech, being dunned for a button and so on. Then we entered the darkened theatre, me and my kid companions, and set sail on an imaginative (and fairly charming) pirate adventure.
Continue reading Pirates Don’t Babysit (Black Sea Theatre) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
I was pretty excited to take my daughter (a 2 and half year old) to her first ever Toronto Fringe kids show. Not knowing what to expect going in, I left the theatre an enthusiastic fan of the talented duo Sonshine & Broccoli, who star in the musical play I Want to Be.
Continue reading I Want to Be (Sonshine and Broccoli) 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival
Contests Day 3! Already! I know, right!?!
More importantly, FIRST DAY OF FRINGE!!!
Now, is there any better way to celebrate Canada Day than checking out some theatre for free? No, I didn’t think so.
So, start emailing and entering some contests. We have 5 more shows up for grabs today, all of them for Friday July 1.
Also, starting tomorrow morning – or, if you’re really eager, the wee hours tonight (or is that the wee hours of tomorrow morning?) you will be able to read the first of our reviews.
Now, onto the contests…
Continue reading Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe Ticket Giveaways for Shows on Friday, July 1
Day two of our ticket contests! Woo hoo! What’s better than great theatre? Great free theatre!
Well we’re here to help you with that. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to five shows a day, and you can enter for each show, each day.
That means, in theory, if you were the luckiest person in the world, you could see a million shows for free! (math isn’t my strong suit, my degree is in theatre…)
Plus, check us out for reviews of every show in the festival as well as general buzz and features about other aspects. For the next couple weeks it’s all Fringe all the time around here.
Now, back to those free tickets, check out after the break for what shows are on offer today for Thursday July 30th and how to enter.
Continue reading Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe Ticket Giveaways for Shows on Thursday, June 30