A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Behind Closed Doors presented by Red Pants Productions as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival is a very well intentioned but perhaps over ambitious piece by Adam Bryan. Continue reading Behind Closed Doors (Red Pants Productions) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
The playbill for this Mind Bang Productions family drama asserts that the play is based on a true story. What the playbill doesn’t tell you is that the play’s true story might very well be yours as well as its creator’s. For an hour’s time during the Toronto Fringe Festival, St. Vlad’s Theatre is transformed into a place of warm welcomes, homemade food, and deeply uncomfortable personal questions: Grandma and Grandpa’s house. And for an hour’s time, audiences are invited to step inside and eavesdrop on one weary grandson’s Conversations with Dork.
Continue reading Conversations with Dork (Mind Bang Productions) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
It was the title that made me want to see The Lactors’ Studio production of Watching Seana McKenna Watch Paint Dry at the Toronto Fringe this year. Then I read that the cast were lawyers, and that the play was written by lawyers (Peter Hamiwka and Diane Baker Mason), and I was truly intrigued.
A little more reading, some rudimentary math, and I realized that six of the twelve members of the cast had studied theatre or film, or worked in theatre before they became lawyers. Definitely a show I had to see. Definitely a show worth seeing. And, a bonus, it’s a play within a play, something I love.
Have you heard of Dr. Vera Peters? No? Neither had I until I chose this particular Toronto Fringe Festival entry. Radical (presented by Gruff Pyg) is a dramatized account of a remarkable Canadian oncologist, Dr. Peters, and her fight to offer women a choice when it came to how their bodies were treated for breast cancer. I should have heard of her, and you should have too. That’s why you ought to see this play. Continue reading Radical (Gruff Pyg) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
Alinka Angelova is gunning for Broadway with MUTE: The Musical! playing now at the Toronto Fringe Festival. If anyone had a million bucks to put behind it, we’d have a commercial hit.
Continue reading MUTE: The Musical (Infinity Arts) Toronto Fringe 2014 Review