A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Compulsion, written by Scott White and produced by Fenton & White, is a dark contemporary musical following six people whose lives end up intertwining in a hospital room. For me, it was everything a musical should be.
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Pointed Cap Playhouse‘s CARMILLA tells the story of Laura (Stella Kulagowski), a friendship-starved young woman, and the intensely erotic relationship she builds with an alluring, fang-toothed stranger (the titular Carmilla, played by Heath V. Salazar) whose carriage overturns in front of her house one day. In other words, the show is a queer vampire burlesque show staged in a Victorian-themed Toronto bar, making it, in my opinion, one of the most memorable elevator pitches you’re likely to hear this year at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading CARMILLA (Pointed Cap Playhouse) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
The Gameplay produced by Young and Crazy Collective playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival explores loneliness, competitiveness and the need for connection during either the saddest or more sinister party ever held.
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Marc and Xave are ex-engineer students who have found a way to mix music, comedy and nerdom into their show: Marc and Xave: Song Engineers by Xave Ruth at the Toronto Fringe Festival. These two best friends embrace nerd culture in a way you may have never seen before…through song.
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If you have a love of open-mics, be they musical or comedy, then you will absolutely want to check out Lighters In The Air produced by Dive Bar Theatre and playing at the Monarch Tavern as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.
If you don’t care for open-mics but enjoy theatre and live music, you will probably enjoy this show nonetheless, because everyone performing is exceptionally polished. And if you’ve never been to an open mic, then prepare to have the bar for your open-mic expectations set ridiculously high.
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