Toronto Fringe Festival: Your Guide to Choosing the Right Show for You
With 160 shows at the Toronto Fringe this year—in 35 venues around the city—it can be a bit overwhelming to choose the ones you want to see. We get it. But we don’t want that to stop you from catching a show—or five.
So, you’re in luck. Not only has Derrick Chua—who sees on average seventy shows per year and definitely knows his theatre—provided a list of his top 12 shows to check out, we’ve done some work for you to make it even easier. We’ve gone through the list of Fringe shows and created several categories based on themes or topics that may be of interest to you, so that you can find the show, or shows, that fit your needs.
Click the category title that piques your interest, and we’ll tell you which shows are best for you.
(Better-than-the-Original) Adaptations of Classics
Plays that bring new perspectives to old stories including Dracula, a Greek sex comedy, and several Shakespeare.
Dystopian Worlds
These shows are set in strange future landscapes and fantastical worlds, taking you outside your everyday life.
The Experimental and Avant-Garde
Some of the weirdest, boldest, and most radical shows at the Fringe.
Female-Focused Stories
Shows about the realities of moving through the world in a woman’s body.
Immigration and Intercultural Tales
These shows about cultural exchange, both funny and poignant, seem especially timely this summer.
Magic and Mysticism
Witches, wolves, magicians, folk healers, and more.
Millennial Stories
Millennials: lazy and entitled, or overlooked and hard-done-by? These shows are about and by a controversial generation.
Mystery and Crime
Detective stories, murder mysteries, and one wily raccoon.
Romance is Alive and Well and Living in Toronto
Love can be funny, horrifying, awkward, sexy, gross—these shows go to all those places and more.
To search through all shows on the Toronto Fringe Festival website, click here
A Perfect Pronunciation of Pho (in which you probably won’t actually learn how to pronounce pho)
Can we contend that the saying of "foh" facilitates the task of communicating the noodle soup to you just fine, which is precisely what a word is supposed to do?
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup #2
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide, ages 15 and up.
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide,...
Embedded Criticism: Inside Toronto Fringe with the New Young Reviewers, Part One
Embedded criticism offers reviewers an insider view of a production, as they embed in the rehearsal process of a show as well as review it.
iPhoto caption: Fringe Hub 2014. Photo by Brian Batista Bettencourt.
Fringe: Memories of a Long-Time Volunteer
What follows are my memories, my perspectives, and my recollections of my Fringe experiences, and thus may contain but are not limited to accurate depictions.
I had just been complaining that I never have enough time to do shrooms.
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