Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews Adventures of a Redheaded Coffee Shop Girl (A-) Adventures of a Redheaded Coffee Shop Girl is a follow-up to last year’s Confessions of a Redheaded Coffee Shop Girl, both written and performed by Rebecca Perry. I didn’t see Confessions last year, but I got […]

Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews   Bout (B+) Sully’s Gym at Dupont and Dufferin serves as the setting for this two-hander about a coach and his determined boxing apprentice, written and directed by lead Stephanie Carpanini, in collaboration with her co-star Matthew Gouveia. Jackie (Carpanini) is a struggling […]

Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews   Hanger (A) Hilary McCormack is a wonderful actress- subtle, emotive, engaging and strong (further evidence of this can be found just one paragraph down). Unfortunately, Hilary McCormack is working in an industry and a time where there is not yet a suitably […]

Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth (A-) A dramatic retelling of a children’s poem, Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth definitely surprised me. The performance is not just a straight telling, in more than one sense. They depict a straightforward version of the poem, but just when […]

 

With so many productions to see (and some of our staffers headed out of town to cover San Diego Comic-Con), we’ve brought on extra help this year to review more Toronto Fringe Festival shows than ever. Over 10 days, 7 critics will be tackling nearly 100 productions. Check out the full list below. The My […]

  Steve Waters’ new play Temple is invigorating, and that is a surprise considering its subject matter. Temple reveals the trials of the administration of St. Paul’s Cathedral during the 2011 Occupy Movement. It is set on the day the building reopened following a two week closure. It also tells of the drama surrounding the […]

Cawrk Theatrical Productions is back with their first production in five years. Last seen directing and starring in the company’s My Theatre Award-nominated production of The Glass Menagerie, Cawrk founding members Matthew Yipchuck and Cat Bernardi have moved on as artists and become specialists in different fields. For the company’s return to the Toronto stage, they’ve smartly […]

Katy Perry’s music is very theatrical and generally rooted in storytelling, two qualities that pretty much guarantee that one day we will see her songbook turned into a Broadway show. That Broadway show will be a commercial blockbuster production and she will be paid millions of dollars for the rights to the hit songs around […]