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. Afeni (B) Afeni is a one woman show in the truest sense – it knows where the focus is and how to keep it there. Revolutionary activist and Black Panther […]
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. 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 […]
Diana Bentley marks her final act in a decade as “co-Chief Engineer” at Coal Mine Theatre (with her husband and fellow co-founder Ted Dykstra) by stepping into a coveted and challenging leading role for even the most accomplished actress. That creative partnership has allowed Bentley and Dykstra to chase their professional goals and helped Coal […]
The historic Campbell House is creaking open its doors for another seasonal romp. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, this production – like the Netflix series bringing some of Poe’s collected works to a new medium this spooky season – centers around the ill-fated House of Usher. Audience members are […]
Click Here to read the rest of our reviews from Toronto Fringe 2023. The Family Crow: A Murder Mystery (A) Adam Francis Proulx and The Pucking Fuppet Co. have spread their wings for a pun-drenched whodunnit that stands out as a clever and entertaining highlight of this year’s Fringe. The central figure in this saga […]
Click Here to read the rest of our reviews from Toronto Fringe 2023. Frankenstein(esque) (A) Many reimaginings of an iconic work coast on the original’s charm while their own contribution droops off the text, just happy to be there. Silent Protagonist Theatre’s Frankenstein(esque) is a worthy homage to Mary Shelley’s classic but also so much […]
Pipeline is the perfect work to mark Soulpepper’s return to live theatre. Dominique Morisseau’s exploration of how American public schools set black boys up for failure at best and prison at worst was part of a 2020 program postponed by the pandemic. After two brutally long and tough years, director Weyni Mengesha and this cast […]