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.
In a time when we spend more time on our screens than interacting with humans, Monica is the social justice warrior you didn’t know you needed. Toronto Fringe Festival presents a 60-minute comedy Monica vs. The Internet: Tales of a Social Justice Warrior at the Tarragon Solo Room.
Award-winning Filipina storyteller Monica Ogden sheds light on activism in the age of the internet, mixed-race identity, and why white feminism is like Lays chips.
If you’re a wannabe Paleontologist looking to share your love of dinosaurs with the little ones in your life, check out family-fun 60-minute interactive presentation of dinosaur history in Philip and Lucinda Dino-Show playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival at the George Ignatieff Theatre.
The interactive piece transforms the audience into “Dinosaur Experts.” Philip and Lucinda are dinosaur explorers that debunk the Paleozoic Era with song, dance, and acrobatics.
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Mice at Centre Ice, a family-fun, 45-minute comedy presented at the George Ignatieff Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, exhibits teachable moments in sportsmanship, but falls short as stand alone theatre piece.
The premise of the show follows Benny the Bullet and the Mouse Hockey Leaguers who yearn to get the Cheddar Cup back from the Rink Rats. It is based on a beloved, best-selling children’s novel by Estelle Salata that also became an animated film.
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Death Ray Cabaret, presented by the eponymous company at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival, is a sketch comedy show created by Second City veterans Jordan Armstrong and Kevin Matviw that stages a nightly takeover of the Monarch Tavern. Though it isn’t really about death rays (or on any particular theme), it’s a very polished set of musical comedy sketches by an assured duo who know how to shoot, laser-like, right for the target.
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I didn’t really know what to expect from Kerploding Theatre’s Gremlin Hour playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival KidsFest. The description was pretty vague. I knew it was Gremlins seeking help at a meeting of Gremlins – that’s us, the audience – and there would be no spooking.
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