How can we define a sandwich? How can we define gender? How do we define ourselves? We have elements of our identity that we share without hesitation, while we keep others hidden.
A family man robs a thief of a ton of money. Martin Dockery’s edge-of-your-seat thriller, set to a propulsive soundtrack. A knuckle-biting story of suspense, humor, & horror!
Vinay navigates his memory palace of absurd images (shown on screen) to recite 10,000 Digits of Pi throughout the festival. However, every time he makes a mistake, he must do a punishment decided by the audience!
Award-winning magic & storytelling from Toronto’s BEST magician… and he’s not even from Toronto!
This city pigeon is on a mission to win back humans’ love for all pigeon-kind. Colum has created the perfect show for humans!
What happens to Shakespeare’s heroes and villains after the curtain falls? Join Lady Macbeth, Portia, Hamlet, and King Hal as they reflect on their lives.
Two unlikely heroines are met with mystical directives to follow all the way to the top of the mount and to the precipice of distress.
International comedian & Weird-Lil’-Gremlin, Amica Hunter GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN and CRUSHES YOUR FUNNY BONE in this hilarious, captivating, & sometimes-unsettling comedy.
It was meant to be a simple night at the theatre, but with a dame, a detective, and a dastardly criminal, it’s anything but!
A smoky night. A dark highway. A person on the edge. A story where life and death are nothing but a line drawn in the dirt.
When two complete strangers are placed in a societal experiment designed for them to build a connection and be vulnerable to one another, things get physically and emotionally intense.
Gritty cabaret headliner Vulva Va-Voom may have spent many years casting artistic pearls before nightclub swine, but is still accustomed to stages with at least rudimentary technical capabilities.
Join Duane Forrest on an acoustic journey through the roots of reggae to the global influence of Bob Marley.
Bucket List is a captivating show that blends storytelling and magic, written and performed by Jimmy Cao.
Welcome to Suzette Boulette, what can I put on your plate? A cigarette break trio? A good-natured food fight? A criminal hotdog with blood for dipping? Perfect. Now, head behind the counter, clock in, and enjoy the interpreters!
Hot Single Clowns in your area! Hopeless romantic clown seeking someone with whimsy to share movie dates, cotton candy sticks, and fun facts about scary airports.
Wrestling with the fact that you’re Mom and Dad’s favourite by default now? Well you’ve come to the right place!
The friendship between a Black man and an Indian man is broken out of jealousy, depicting an overture for the years to come.
Three undead workers are given a second chance in this fast paced satire about work after life.
To be just or to justify, That is the question, Your Honour. A dark, gritty, serious crime drama.
After surviving WWII caught in Berlin, Eleanor struggles to navigate U.S. high school while haunted by war trauma.
I screamed “mom” under the neon lights dressed in red. You will lay water lilies on my grave; the faggots will be in mourning.
1990s Toronto: voice over work is a great way to find gigs. Two actors enter the same recording booth at two different times of day to dub a Japanese show about a group of magical girls fighting for hope and justice.
Fantasy, reality, and impossibility intertwine as Cressida tries to break a curse on her family.
On the brink of the Bolshevik revolution, a young countess and her servant argue over semantics.
“What is a Ha-Mong?” Jasmine Vang is teaching a Hmong Class to share her Hmong American identity with the Fringe.
HYPERSENSITIVE is an intimate solo performance about what it means to live with borderline personality disorder.
Afi Ata’s favourite ice cream shoppe is under new management and has stopped selling Chocolate Caramel – her favourite ice cream flavour!
The Tragic Dane takes on Othello’s bane Iago in a battle of soliloquies within a rented double-book’d rehearsal space.
Katie will tell you her sultriest secrets, her most salacious scandals, and why she isn’t allowed to date Canadians anymore. Life’s more fun when you kiss and tell! 💋
A life drawing workshop is taking place in the art studio. Uncomfortable with the way the activity is being conducted, Lynne seeks a team of accomplices to improve the class. To do so, she must confront ancient and powerful agents capable of enslaving humanity.
Karin Fekko weaves tales of hilarity and tragedy through 17 years of keeping her MS a secret while partying, dating, and trying to land her dream job.
Award-winning solo performer Steve Budd wonders why other people can tie the knot and he can’t. Oy does he wonder! So he asked some couples what brought them together and keeps them from pulling apart.
Sammy is a stranger in a strange land. He is an American (clown) in Paris who somehow has landed a job at a fancy restaurant. But what if you are also – a clown?
Lasers! Horses! Dolly Parton? A comedy revue tackling the Real Stuff™ – feminism, and existentialism, and third cousins.
What, then, has become of that famous village it takes to raise a child?
Strings Attached is a heart-wrenching one-act play exploring mental illness and the extremes one will go to escape its suffocating grip. The story focuses on the complicated relationship between two characters: one is a young woman mourning her youthful innocence while struggling through her torturous present, and the other is an embodiment of her complex, fractured mind.
Sharp intellectual satire meets risqué Monty Pythonesque buffoonery in this über-polished multimedia “lecture.”
A burlesque show unlike any other. Join world-class comedians and clowns as they master the art of the tease!
A fast-moving comedic head-trip about two brothers wrestling with the end of everything. Hilarious, heartfelt, and fun.
When a strange man offers a way to save her poetry café, the audience must watch Evergreen accept a deal that every woman is offered.
Trapped in a time warp and desperate to escape, Rayna sets out to unravel a deadly tangle of threads that threaten to strangle her.
Grave robbing: the ultimate dead-end job. Silent comedy with the unquiet dead. Burke and Hare with a dash of Buster Keaton. You’ll be dying to find out what happens next.
When Stephen’s family moves to a small, conservative town, his search for belonging pulls him closer to truths he’d rather avoid.
The Pleasant Meadows public library has a problem. Not only are literacy rates declining, but political pressures have been placing the beloved resource in the bullseye of protesters.
Jane, a sixty-year-old orphan and retiring interior decorator, goes on a self-styled, “Wee Scottish Design Tour.” In the gloaming, she encounters a curious figure who challenges her experience of the world behind and before her.
A maritime tale of madness. A stubborn man vs an angry ocean. A clownesque, physical comedy about a lighthouse keeper who loses his shoe.
Truth & Beauty is an absurdly hilarious one-woman performance that follows a clown on her wild quest to make the most beautiful show in the world.
An hour of stand up comedy by Jessica Pigeau, a headlining Vancouver comedian who has been described as “like if George Carlin was a Muppet.”
A solo show that combines storytelling and stand-up comedy. Sarah promises that it will be cathartic.
Featuring a unique apparatus – the Aerial Canoe – this performance takes audiences on an emotional journey, told with the spectacle of circus, physical theatre and musical soundscape.
A hilarious and sweet dive into the diaries of a preadolescent queer!
Whiskey Flicks Live! is an unscripted, booze-infused, deep dive into film.
