A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
The paradox of the information age is that we have more and better technological means to connect to people instantly around the world yet we’re increasingly isolated and staring at screens. This concept is explored in I’m Right Here, a song cycle by composer Anthony Bastianon and lyricist Brett McCaig, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Continue reading I’m Right Here (Victor Theatre Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Caitlin McCarthy plays a high school student named Erica in Deepest Darkest playing at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. Like every high school student in their final year, Erica has secrets. Deep dark secrets that she hasn’t told anyone and she just needs to get them off her chest. This one woman show is energetic, comical, and full of that awkward teenage angst that we all remember so well.
Continue reading Deepest Darkest (Theatre Plexus) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
In a fairly full house in the Factory Mainspace at 1:45 on a sunny Saturday at Toronto Fringe Festival, Sam Mullins (eponymous author of The Untitled Sam Mullins Project shows his stuff. The photo above does not lie: Mullins tells stories. If I had a sharpie, I’d amend his sign to read “I tell (three fairly interesting and one utterly riveting) stories (well enough that no one looked at their watch for an entire hour).” In a nutshell, there’s the show.
Continue reading The Untitled Sam Mullins Project (Sam Mullins) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Tonight I attended the comedic XOXO: The Relationship Show (Two Juliets) at the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival. Described as a “comedy cabaret,” this show is a whirlwind of laughs bound together by the sometimes exhilarating, oft exasperating trials of dating in the modern world. Continue reading XOXO: The Relationship Show (Two Juliets) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
So you’ve graduated with a liberal arts degree, you’re saddled with a crushing student debt, you’ve moved back home with your parents, and you have absolutely no idea what you want to do with your life. Quarter Life Crisis – The Musical by Lee Cohen, Evan Cohen, Dan Hunt with book and lyrics by Jennifer Turliuk, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, focuses on this phase of life that’s so familiar to so many. The subject should be a slam dunk for musical parody, unfortunately an errant script and lack of focus really tank the show.
Continue reading Quarter Life Crisis – The Musical (Koru Labs) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review