The Toronto Fringe Festival is on its last weekend and it offers 123 choices of shows to choose from this year.
Due to day job commitments and other work, I have seen a limited number of shows this year. Nonetheless, my time at the Fringe has been quite rewarding. Below I share a few thoughts on the shows I have attended thus far.
READ MOREGuild Festival Theatre brings to life in a new production of Brontë: The World Without, fascinating story of the Brontë sisters’ pioneering literary careers in the 1800s.
Told over five days in the span of three years, the play explores what it meant to be an ambitious woman in the 19th century, and how similar it looks to the struggles women still face today.
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The Toronto Fringe Festival is Ontario’s largest performance festival with an eclectic mix of topics and themes.
This year, Toronto Fringe will host performances at traditional theatre spaces and pop-up venues spread out between Keele Street, Davenport Avenue, Pape Avenue, and Lake Ontario, with dramatic theatre, clown, dance, storytelling, sketch comedy, musicals, improv, puppets, and stand up, plus six KidsFest shows, and thirteen days of free community programming at the Festival Hub at Soulpepper.
Continuing my support of the festival by sharing Part 2 of My Picks of shows you can enjoy this year.
READ MOREMaking waves across the festival circuit, Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon is the debut feature documentary from director Ernie Bustamante. An Emmy-nominated television writer turned indie filmmaker, Bustamante centres his work on Latino/a characters, drawing from his own roots in the Arizona desert. The film offers a way overdue film portrait of Sonia Manzano, known to millions as “Maria” from Sesame Street.
READ MOREThe 38th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival is currently underway. This year’s festival includes 123 shows in 27 venues across the city.
The Toronto Fringe is Ontario’s largest performance festival with an eclectic mix of topics and themes. As it’s become my custom, I am sharing Part 1 of My Picks of shows at this year’s Toronto Fringe.
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A new six-episode podcast series, The Defendants, was created, hosted and executive-produced by Jane Aster Roe, with the goal of deepening public understanding around sexual assault cases, from the very public to the private, unpacking why conviction rates remain chronically and systemically low, while offering up forward-thinking ways and big ideas to help bring about meaningful change.
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Summer has officially arrived with the solstice this past weekend.
As we lead into this season, here are some local events I have curated for you. There are films, live performances, and more to entertain us solo or with family and friends.
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Buddies in Bad Times celebrates its annual Queer Pride Festival, with over 30 shows, concerts, events, and parties taking place throughout the Buddies space.
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Ending their record-breaking season, Crow’s Theatre partners with the Grand Theatre to co-produce the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Eboni Booth’s deeply affirming Primary Trust.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) is dialling up the suspense with the return of MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival, now in its fifth year. Celebrating this milestone year, MOTIVE 2026 will host its most expansive programme to date, featuring more than 55 events, author talks, and immersive workshops designed to captivate crime and mystery lovers of all kinds.
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