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REVIEWS: Toronto Fringe Festival 2025

This collection of Toronto Fringe Festival capsule reviews will be updated throughout the festival with writing from 20 different critics.

Let’s-a go: Embedded with the Fools’ Comedy of Errors

While I was preparing for the summer heat by shopping for lighter clothes, Kate Smith, artistic director of a Company of Fools, was getting ready for their next show. She called me while I was in the Rideau Centre and pitched an idea: “Would you have any interest in being an embedded critic?”

Theatre Aquarius’ NCNM selects three new musicals for 2025-26 development 

“The Danish Guest, The Blue Castle, and My Beef with Beef each bring such distinct worlds to life — from Victorian London to early-1900s Muskoka to a modern kitchen haunted by a ghost cow," wrote artistic director Mary Francis Moore in a press release.

As he plays Leontes at the Stratford Festival, Graham Abbey reflects on his deep bond with The Winter’s Tale

“It’s got to be my favourite [Shakespeare play] at this point,” says Abbey. “I don't understand why it's so rarely done. It’s listed as a ‘problem play,’ and I see that, but I have had such beautiful experiences with it throughout my life… I think it has the ability to unite audience and cast in a deeply human event.”

REVIEW: A new Emma Donoghue musical takes root at the Blyth Festival

As a resident of southwestern Ontario, what struck me most is how deeply rooted in the region The Wind Coming Over the Sea feels. It's a lively reminder of the cultural inheritances that continue to shape the area today.

Toronto Fringe is getting ready to send in the clowns

If there’s one notable trend in the 2025 Toronto Fringe lineup, it’s that this year's festival will feature more clowns than you can fit into a very small car. 

REVIEWS: Toronto Fringe Festival 2025

This collection of Toronto Fringe Festival capsule reviews will be updated throughout the festival with writing from 20 different critics.

Finding Home in Art

"It may be over a hundred years ago when The Cherry Orchard was written and first performed, but there is nothing about it that is passé."

Art Performed: Canadian Stage’s 19.20 Season

Canadian Stage announced their 19.20 season.

The Most Popular Intermission Articles of 2018

Here are the most-read articles on Intermission in 2018.

Best of Nappoholics Anonymous 2018

Revisit Tony Nappo’s best musings about 2018, acting, politics, getting older, and more.

Theatre this Week: December 10 – 16

These are the plays to see in Toronto for December 10 - 16 , 2018.

Theatre this Week: December 3 – 9

These are the plays to see in Toronto for December 3 - 9 , 2018.