Fringe Festival

A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.

The Fringe 100 are on the move

When you’re creating new and innovative productions, there is one thing that you need to attain, and that is the youth audience. This year’s Toronto Fringe Festival is going to try and fill that demand by introducing you to their newest project. It is called The Fringe 100.

This opportunity for 100 young artists, between the ages of 17 and 24, will allow them to explore the arts administration side of new theatre development. Participants work with active theatre professionals who teach them the secrets of guerrilla marketing, street theatre, finding niche markets, and other valuable business skills that developing artists need to survive.

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Fringe Preview: Tent Talks – “Theatre is Dead…Long Live Theatre!”

A preview of the Toronto Fringe Festival Tent Talks and the burgeoning discussion on the importance of the indie theatre community

“Theatre is dead…Long Live Theatre!” may seem like a self-contradictory theme for this year’s Fringe Tent Talks (yes, it’s a pun on Ted Talks), but as Claire Wynveen, the Creation Lab Coordinator at the festival tells me, it echoes a dominant sentiment in the industry today.

Nobody should be surprised that the arts are struggling, and theatre is no exception. Most creative industries are increasingly difficult to break into, and a challenging existence once you’ve accomplished that much.  However, the juxtaposition of the doomsday type sentiment with the toil that goes into many of these performances, and the increasing attendance at Fringe is very real and apparent. Continue reading Fringe Preview: Tent Talks – “Theatre is Dead…Long Live Theatre!” →

Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Wednesday, July 4th

It’s that exciting time of year again… The 2012 Toronto Fringe is here! And MoT is in full swing gearing up to have every show covered by the first weekend. As you know from last year we like to spread the love during Fringe and invite our readers to participate in contests for a pair of FREE Fringe tickets to FIVE shows every day of the festival. So enter a contest and Fringe for Free! Today’s contest features a pair of tickets to five shows on Wednesday, July 4th.

The shows are:

Antigone – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 6:30pm show at Randolph Theatre (Venue 4) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Antigone contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

Byologyc – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 7:30pm show at Annex Wreckroom (Venue 15) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Byologyc contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

Breaking Velocity – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 8:15pm show at Tarragon Solo Room  (Venue 3) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Breaking Velocity contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

Help Yourself  – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:30pm show at George Ignatieff Theatre  (Venue 6) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Help Yourself contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

Little Lady – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 8:15pm show at Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse (Venue 8) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Little Lady contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

 

ZACK ADAMS: A Complete History of Zack Adams – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

From press release

WEEPING SPOON PRODUCTIONS presents
ZACK ADAMS – A Complete History Of Zack Adams
Written and performed by Shane Adamczak
Nominated – BEST LOCAL COMEDY – FRINGE WORLDFESTIVAL 2012
Nominated – JUST FOR LAUGHS award MONTREAL FRINGE 2012

After charming the pants of audiences in Australia and Canada in 2011 with ZACK ADAMS: LOVE SONGS FOR FUTURE GIRL (“✭✭✭✭” -CBC “✭✭✭✭”- UPTOWN “✭✭✭✭”-TIMES COLONIST, Nominated for the JUST FOR LAUGHS AWARD for BEST COMEDY – Montreal Fringe 2011); Australia’s own Zack Adams returns to where it all began in A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ZACK ADAMS.

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Linda & Jason – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

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From press release

Coffeehouse Theatre presents their first original production, “Linda & Jason” by new playwright Jenessa Grant.
Produced & Directed by: Evan Harkai
Featuring:
Jenessa Grant, Adam Christie, Jesse Nerenberg & Alex Spyropoulos

“I’m 26! I’m old! I have spent a decade building on this awful, hateful bitterness and resentment, and honestly I think I’m too old and jaded to be any other way. I’m just. I’m so old Jason, I feel, I feel so so so so old. And stupid. I am an old, stupid, bad – person!” – Linda

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