Reviews of productions based in Toronto – theatre includes traditional definitions of theatre, as well as dance, opera, comedy, performance art, spoken word performances, and more. Productions may be in-person, or remote productions streamed online on the Internet.
PornStar is one of the most buzzed-about productions at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, written by perennial Fringe favourite Chris Craddock (Bash’d) and performed by the artists behind Morro and Jasp, it sounds like a marriage of Fringe royalty. Continue reading PornStar (Beefy Geek Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
The Little Mermaid currently playing at the Toronto Fringe doesn’t seem very Fringe-like at all. And I mean that in the best possible way. It’s a visually stunning show with grand costumes and an ensemble cast of 16! Now that’s worth seeing. Continue reading The Little Mermaid (Sisters of Salome) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Sometimes a Toronto Fringe show goes on to fame and fortune outside of the fringe circuit. Last year it was Kim’s Convenience. This year it could be The Wakowski Brothers. This is a play that should go on to bigger and better things.
It’s not the show I was expecting based on the program blurb. I thought it would be “a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants”. There was a lot of song and a lot of dance, no seltzer, a pie that didn’t get thrown, and a fairly complex story in between the vaudeville bits.
I wasn’t the only person who was surprised, and impressed. The buzz in the washroom after the show was all about how terrific it was, and how it was so much more than people were expecting. Continue reading The Wakowski Brothers (Aim for the Tangent) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
There’s nothing quite like family. The Ballad of Herbie Cox presented by Co. Sum of Its parts & Cie. Jozsek Trefeli at the Randolph Theatre joins the dance innitiative at the Toronto 2012 Fringe Festival from Melbourne, Australia. It is a patchwork quilt of song, dance and spoken word woven together by family stories.
Baby Gumm Productions pays tribute to queer icon Judy Garland in The Judy Monologues at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Opening night was a full house.
The Judy Monologues alternate between projected clips of her films, silent scenes including Garland look-alike Kimberly Roberts, and the monologues themselves.
Continue reading The Judy Monologues (Baby Gumm Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review