3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
Pictures for Fringe shows are hit or miss at best, but Max B. Tezlerow's for Mo and Jess Kill Susie are not only as troubling as our reviewer said the play was, but are also darkly lovely in…
Amazeballsby Winna Tse@tsewinnaNatasha Boomer, you're hilarious. Written, produced and performed by Boomer, Supperfesta is one heck of a laugh-fest that many can relate to. It's a play about…
Inchoateby Colette ShawI probably should have realized what I was in for when the play opened with a playwright unable to write a play. While it has some good moments and a handful of good p…
Madness for Fun and Profitby Ramya Jegatheesan@RamyaJImagesBlanche crouches. Stares. A salacious smile appears. "What are you looking at?" she teases. Welcome to The Hystericon. Meet Bl…
The Charity of CelebsThere should be a sense that nobody but you could have made this piece.by Gaëtan L. CharleboisKatherine Sanders has been creating, producing and performing her own wo…
A little bit Waiting for Guffman, a little bit The Office, Genesis and Other Stories, now playing the Toronto Fringe, is a play within a play - a gloriously awful work presented by people wh…
Left to right: Geoff McBride, Simon Bradshaw, Katie Ryerson, Matthew John Lundvall, Melanie Karin, John Doucet (Photo credit: Justin Van Leeuwen JVLPhoto)Toonz From Inside the Bu…
You Might Want to Stop By Here Tomorrowby Jason BookerGet past the slightly pretentious and unexplained bracketed title of You Won't Be Here (Tomorrow), a site-specific show at this year's F…
Venues, Dates and Cast announced for Ken Gass'sInaugural CANADIAN REP THEATRE seasonTORONTO (JULY 9, 2013) Artistic Director Ken Gass today announced venues, casting an…
Sketch comedy masquerades as musicalby Joel Fishbane@joelfishbaneDifferent realities play themselves out in It's Always You, a show that is being mistakenly advertised as a musical. Yes, the…
Really, Please, Teach Themby Jason BookerWhat a hot mess.Rachel Ganz's Teach Me tells the story of two prep school girls who may or may not have a crush on or may or may not have messed arou…
Elegant script gets production it deservesby Joel Fishbane@joelfishbaneA sharp script gets the showcase it deserves in Blue Moon Girls, the new production by Fruitful Productions. A concise …
How I TweetWendy, Alec, the Bird and meby Gaëtan L Charlebois@gcharleboisLast week a bunch of bloggers and theatre observers on Twitter decided to start using the hashtag #cdntheatre when…
A Bright Shining Starby Lisa McKeown@lisammckeownGinette Mohr's work in progress was a magical experience. The story is simple but bizarre: a young boy goes missing, disappearing into the ra…
Age, Death, the Whole Damn ThingA real-life couple face the issuesby Dave Ross@dmjrossWhat would you do to ensure a comfortable retirement? What price would you pay? Would you agree to a fix…
Old fashioned script, new fangled castby Joel Fishbane@joelfishbaneThere's something charming about watching two one act-plays lifted from another time. Playwright William Inge, best known f…
Exploring sketch with mixed resultsby Joel Fishbane@joelfishbaneSketch comedy is par for the course in any Fringe Festival and the quartet of Not Bad Abe aim for the stars with a high concep…
Waiting For More than Clichéby Ramya Jegatheesan@RamyaJImagesA man gets stuck in a dirty bathroom stall. It's the Toronto bus terminal, and it ain't pretty. Chaos reigns as an endless parad…
Home, Sweet Prisonby Winna Tse@tsewinnaHave you ever been your own worst enemy? A prison inmate, played by the talented Johnny Wideman, also writer and director, is suddenly surprised one da…
Julie Tamiko-Manning, Alain Goulem in MidsummerShakespeare, Shakespeare everywhere even when you don't see it. Like Maid For a Musket, one of the offerings this year at the St. Lawrence Shak…
The Woes (and Joys) of a Fringe Tourby Estelle RosenAndrew Wade brings The Hatter to the Toronto and then Saskatoon Fringe Festivals before summer ends. A graduate of the University of Victo…
Woman on the Vergeby Zoe Erwin-LongstaffThe Collectors boasts, one of the most compelling blurbs in the Fringe brochure. Dealing with "emotional poverty and debt" the play centers on a woman…
Where drag meets divinityA chat with God about whatever lifts your kiltby Christian Baines@XtianBainesGod is a Scottish drag queen. In an 80's floral power suit, no less. I had always suspec…
Boxed in by the Boxby Jason BookerA site-specific play set in a storage locker. Sounds like a great idea: creative space to bring an audience into, strong aesthetic choices with limited opti…
Come for the prop comedy, stay for the aerialsby Colette ShawThis clown show is hosted by Jesse Horne, recovering children's party specialist (they're awful! "It's like Braveheart with ballo…
