Welcome to our landing page for the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival.   Over the next ten days, three of our writers will be reviewing as much as we’re able. Below is a preliminary list* of everything we were able to work into our schedule, in alphabetical order. As our reviews go live,...
The Toronto Fringe Festival runs June 30-July 12 at locations throughout the city.   We’ll be on site reviewing as much as we possibly can, so be sure to bookmark our Fringe Homepage to read all our reviews as they’re published.   In the meantime, we asked the artists to send us...
The latest from Toronto drag icon Pearle Harbour is a sad, wild, itty bitty little tragicomedy staged in a hidden bar in the swanky Royal York hotel that is barely big enough to walk through. It’s surreal, it’s uncomfortable, it’s wacky, it’s depressing. It may be a...
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Little Astronaut (A) If you’re looking for something to delight and enrage you, this musical about women struggling to succeed in STEM is just the thing. Written by Isobel Arseneau, this story about Hazel and Lily, who are starting university with the aspiration of becoming aerospace engineers, is poignant and timely. Majoring in physics, they […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   Stupid Cupid (A-) Love is in the air and all around – which is bad news for Iris, personal assistant to the narcissistic and megalomaniacal Cupid. As she leads others to […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   Director Alice Fox Lundy’s site-specific production of Little One is far too polished and complete for the Fringe. If it weren’t nearly impossible to produce independent theatre outside of the context […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   Ooga Chaka (A-) This delightfully ridiculous piece takes us back to the Stone Age for a timeless illustration of life as a struggling artist. Overworked cave painters Bungu and Kiki grow […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   Neuro-DIVE! (A-) Every performance of this solo show starring a talking dopamine receptor is listed as a relaxed performance. That means the lights are slightly up, audience members can come and […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   Many Happy Returns (A-) Julie Cohn’s interactive theatre show will offer a refreshing break for anyone getting tired of sitting for most of the day. The audience are ushered in to […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   A Comedy Show at the End of the World (A) You can always count on Jon Blair and he’s back again with one of his best shows ever. Playing a former […]

Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival.   Playwright/director Emily Elizabeth’s interpretation of Much Ado About Nothing participates in a popular tradition- that of both updating Shakespearean comedy with modern language (see 10 Things I Hate About You, She’s […]