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 […]
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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. My Own Private Shakespeare (A-) I loved this unassuming solo show that seamlessly weaves Shakespearean text into a personal story that wields its unadorned realism strongly enough […]
Welcome to our landing page for the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival. Below are links to all of our reviews from this year’s festival, written by Kelly Bedard, Lisa McKeown, and Dom Harvey. Click HERE and HERE to listen to our preview podcast featuring show pitches from the artists themselves. The Shows […]
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 their best show pitch […]
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 their best show pitch […]
Prolific Toronto musical theatre writer Andrew Seok has a signature style- all heart, total sincerity, soaring ballads with big ensemble harmonies. Your mileage may vary. The unrelenting prettiness of his work is a pro for me, though it can get repetitive, so it’s nice to see him stretch a bit with his latest piece. […]
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 masterpiece. Justin Miller’s alter ego is so […]
Critic’s Note: The performance reviewed was the June 12th preview. Experimental writing and the plays that come with it is tough. The art of saying something while sometimes saying nothing. The art of nothing happening but saying a lot in that nothing. Samuel Beckett made a career of it; Seinfeld ran on it. It […]