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. 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 […]
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 […]
Twelve years in the making, Susanna Fournier’s take rimbaud is heartfelt, engaging, thoughtful, entertaining, and continuously funny. The stage juts out into the centre of the room, with the audience kiddie corner along two walls. This means the action happens along two sides of the stage, and the result was more effective than I’d […]
It Could Still Happen is a company that grounds itself in such values as exploration, embodiment, and taking one’s time during a creative process. And so it’s not a surprise that The Herald still has a work-in-progress vibe as it begins with writer and director Jill Connell emerging, carrying their own podium amidst a fog […]
Based on the book by Melly Magrath, Not a Cult: The Musical explores the various ways we can get sucked into culty behaviour without even realizing it. This Small but Mighty production brings us into the world of Joy (Bebe Brunjes) and her adult camp that purports to be about ‘fun’ but slowly reveals the […]
Co-written by Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan and directed by Lauzon, and originally produced in 2022 at the Stratford Festival, this Canadian Stage remount depicts the story of a fictional residential school in Northern Ontario in 1939. An English teacher, anticipating a visit by King George VI, enlists her students in a production of All’s […]
Click Here to read all our reviews from Toronto Fringe 2024. Patty Picker (A) Written by Evan Bawtinheimer, One For One Collective’s production brings us the story of Patty, a teenage girl who gets bullied and ostracized when the school learns a shameful secret. Bawtinheimer’s story examines a prevalent theme in teenage maturation without veering […]
Obsidian’s production of seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones finishes their 23-24 season at Crow’s Theatre on a strong note. Twitter, like many social media platforms, flattens out the three-dimensionality of users. This production, by contrast, breathes life into the world behind a series of seemingly violent tweets. Lee-Jones’ play tells […]