15 Years of the Ottawa Fringe Festival YOU MAY BE IN THIS BOOK. OFF the Record: 15 years of the Ottawa Fringe Festival, a full-colour book of stories, images, and other memories spanning the history of Ottawa’s longest-running theatre festival.  Featuring original content from veteran Fringe performers and patrons, including Pierre Brault, Emily Pearlman, and… Read More

… and they are exciting! Here is your lineup for the 2012 Ottawa Fringe Festival: National Category Pollux Dance (Toronto, ON) Skinny Leg (Toronto, ON) GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT PROUDCIONS (Toronto, ON) If You Can’t Beat ‘Em Productions (Delta BC) Artbeat Theatre Group (Quebec, QC) Scruffy Theatre Productions (Toronto, ON) 1.21 (BC) Mark Shyser (Toronto, ON)… Read More

A big thank you to all of the amazing performers who submitted dozens of applications to us for the September 18th early-bird deadline.  The successful applicants were: LOCAL Garkin Productions Dead Unicorn Ink 20 Nothings Productions Erudite Theatre NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL Ausable Theatre (London, Ontario) Sandrine Lafond (Montréal, Québec) Sisterscene (NY, USA) Katherine Glover (MN,… Read More

The 2011 Ottawa Fringe Festival is over. Thank you to all the artists, volunteers, and audiences who came out to make the 2011 Ottawa Fringe the most successful Fringe ever.  We had record attendance in 2011 with over 12,600 tickets sold, and returned over $84,000 to participating artists – also an Ottawa Fringe record.  And… Read More

The 2011 Ottawa Fringe Festival is over! But before we closed the Fringe for another year, Executive Producer Natalie Joy Quensel announced the winners of the 2011 Closing Night Awards.  A committee of accomplished professionals and dedicated Fringe patrons from Ottawa’s arts community saw every show in the festival and chose the winners in the… Read More

Ottawa Fringe Festival Executive Producer Natalie Joy Quesnel announced the BEST IN FEST winners in the Fringe Courtyard tonight during Chats with Cat. The top selling show in each venue (based on total number of tickets sold over their first four performances) will receive an extra performance on Sunday, June 26 at 9:30 pm.  See… Read More

by Andrew Alexander When I visited a rehearsal of the cast of Salamander Theatre’s Othello last week in the basement of a church in the Glebe, the show was very much in component pieces, coming together. The basement was filled with props, costumes and set pieces, and groups of actors going over various scenes. Eleanor… Read More

Looking for Fringe reviews?  You’ve come to the right place. Since the beginning of the festival we’ve been archiving as many reviews as possible on our site at ottawafringe.com/reviews.  Most of these come from mainstream media sources, as the sheer number of reviews being published this year precludes me from posting all of them, as… Read More