Reviews
iPhoto caption: An Ottawa Fringe event. Photo by Erik Stolpmann.
REVIEW: Ottawa Fringe delivers geese, gloves, potholes, and more
The opening weekend of the 2026 Ottawa Fringe Festival was a grey and rainy one, but the festival's energy wasn’t dampened.
iPhoto caption: Sara Farb and Qasim Khan in 'Funny Girl.' Photo by David Cooper.
REVIEW: Sara Farb shines in Funny Girl at the Shaw Festival
One theme of Funny Girl is acceptance of the self despite its flaws and inconsistencies. The musical, likewise, is full of flaws and inconsistencies, but compelling all the same. Luckily, Sara Farb as Fanny Brice in all her boastful vulnerability gives us that central figure who delights — an umbrella to ward off the rain.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Jack Woolfe.
REVIEW: In Síofra at the Red Sandcastle, fairy lore curdles into communal dread
Spindle Collective’s unnerving Síofra takes us to 19th-century Ireland, where folklore gives a watchful community a language for the uncanny.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Drew Berry.
REVIEW: An homage to Richard Foreman commands us to change our lives — and our theatre
Richard Foreman's plays usually drew on his personal journals and clocked in around 70 minutes; when he passed away last year at the age of 87, he left behind an invitation for directors to create royalty-free work from those journals. With the recently closed You Must Change Your Life at Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre, creator-director Ilana Khanin took up that offer to ludic, collage-like effect.