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. 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 […]
Anita La Selva has directed some of the best theatre I’ve ever seen- bold, creative, demanding work that left a lasting impact. That fact is the complicating, heartbreaking, contextualizing background to 12 Litres 8800 Steps, her autobiographical solo show currently on stage in the Factory mainspace. The play tells the devastating personal story that, presumably […]
Do not stop. Just go to see Laura Piccinin’s production of GO, a hike full of heart, comedy, and charm Full disclosure, I do not hike. As a city boy, my version of hiking is walking from Regent Park to Parkdale. However, even I can understand the appeal of hiking. The nature, the views, […]
I’ve technically put the theatre review side of this site on hiatus while I take maternity leave but the prospect of completely missing out on Toronto Fringe made me too sad so I made myself a one-day sample platter of shows taking place in and around the new festival hub at Soulpepper’s distillery district venue. […]
Some uncomfortably personal context: I just had a kid. Attempting to be realistic about the amount of time this website takes to run, I was planning to start maternity leave right around now and cut theatre reviewing from our coverage entirely for the rest of the year. But, when my son arrived two months early, […]