A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Tinder On The Toilet And Other Bad Ideas, produced by NOTORIOUS and playing at Toronto Fringe is what you get when you mash together a sketch comedy show with a rap concert. The rhyming is sick, the beats are tight and the jokes are totally “off the chain” hilarious.
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The Cardboard Countess by urbanspine (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival) addresses issues of teen depression, homelessness, bullying, and environmental decay. Somehow the play manages to be beautiful and hopeful, in spite of its heavy subject matter. Continue reading The Cardboard Countess (urbanspine) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
The Howland Company‘s Entrances and Exits, currently playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, has a simple premise. Act one takes place in a living room, and involves characters coming in and out of doors at random intervals. Act two flips the scene to the other side of the door, and in classic farce style, lets the audience in on what’s been happening in the other room during the first act. The twist? It’s entirely improvised by the cast. Continue reading Entrances and Exits (The Howland Company) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
What you see is what you get with Adam Schwartz, who references his lack of a filter and propensity for truth-telling repeatedly in his stand-up fringe show, Aspergers: More Tales of a Social Misfit. Playing the Annex Theatre as part of this years Toronto Fringe Festival, Schwartz’s short set is a set-up-and-knock-down series of jokes about how his Aspergers affects his life, what he’s learned and, of course, his mother.
D&D Live!, produced by Sex T-Rex, is playing as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. Before getting into this review, I should admit my own bias. I’m a big fan of Toronto sketch troupe Sex T-Rex. And I’m an even bigger fan of Dungeons and Dragons, with nearly a decade of Dungeon Master (DM) experience under my belt.
D&D Live!, playing at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, seems almost too good to be true.
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