Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Bright Lights (A+) I’ve gone back and forth on what to say about this show for days now. I feel that all the review-style praise that there is to be heaped has already been heaped on this sold-out gem by recent Dora winner Kat […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Wasteland (A+) The latest adventure from lunatic physical comedians Sex T-Rex is mostly Mad Max with a large dash of Wizard of Oz plus almost Psycho-like, Fight Club-ish twists, all doused in 80s rock. Obviously. Josef Addleman, Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Kaitlin Morrow […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Cam Baby (A) Jessica Moss doesn’t live here anymore; she’s in New York and somehow I’m just now noticing how much I’ve missed her work in the Toronto theatre scene. Moss’ signature style of quick-witted dramedy with personal themes is shared with some […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Blind to Happiness (A) An absolute must see. Tim C Murphy shines as a socially awkward dishwasher, an aspiring poet/line cook, and a PhD Psych student, breathing life and depth into each character, as well as many off stage ones as well. He immediately […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews The Comedy of Errors (A) Shakespeare BASH’D bows out of the Fringe Festival with a fast and slick final show that is the most flat-out successful play I’ve seen so far at this year’s festival in terms of pulling off what it sets out […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews A Thousand Kindnesses (A-) Award-winning Scottish theatre practitioner Rachel Jury created an hour-long one-woman show based, the Fringe site declares, on ‘interviews with people who have escaped conflict’. Jury stands alone in the centre of the stage, wearing all black, and migrates from character […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews A Minor Mid-career Retrospective (A) James Judd performs his stories from a collection from the last 10 years of his career. It is advertised that each night is a different pick of stories and after seeing this show I’m tempted to see them all. […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Tonight’s Cancelled (B+) Tonight’s Cancelled is a well-performed sketch show by Torontonian comedy darlings Stacey McGunnigle and Jason Derosse. Not being a local, I’m not hugely aware of the theatre scene in Toronto so to walk into a packed house is a good sign. […]