OTTO & ASTRID To Perform Live in London One Night Only
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 17, 2025
Berlin's most dysfunctional sibling rock duo, Otto & Astrid, return to London for one night only with their hit show The Stages Tour - a lipstick-smeared, tantrum-loving glam-rock gig that blends anarchic comedy with pitch-perfect pop parody.
SPACE HIPPO Returns To Edinburgh Fringe
by Stephi Wild - May 6, 2025
The hilarious, weird, and epic sci-fi from Japan is back! Space Hippo returns for Edinburgh Fringe 2025, with an updated script and even more space-hopping irreverence than before.
Lou Laurence to Present Toronto Premiere of LOVE, SHARKS & FRENCHING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 6, 2023
Get ready to laugh and fall in love with Lou Laurence's award-winning solo comedy-music show, Love, Sharks & Frenching. Join Lou for a cabaret-inspired date filled with jazzy songs, hilarious stories, and relatable anecdotes about modern dating.
Photo Flash: Take a Look at Production Photos From Soho Playhouse's 2019 FRINGE ENCORE SERIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 6, 2019
Darren Lee Cole, producing artistic director of the not-for-profit, SoHo Playhouse and associate producer Matthew Quinn are proud to continue this year's Encore Series - Week Two with a range of shows from clowning to family to comedy to drama, to female empowerment there is something for everyone. Week Two includes Mil Grus, Pockets, Larry, Desiree's Coming Early, Ingenue: Deanna Durbin among the 18 productions featured this year.
Toronto Fringe Festival Presents MONICA VS. THE INTERNET
by Julie Musbach - Jun 6, 2019
From award winning storyteller and accidental comedian Monica Ogden comes a show that sheds light on activism in the age of the internet, mixed-race identity, and why white feminism is like Lays chips.
Velvet Wells Motivates Audiences To Vanquish Their Demons In PERSONAL DEMON HUNTER
by A.A. Cristi - May 13, 2019
Feeling anxious about the state of the world? Experiencing self doubt? Unsure about your path in life? Velvet Duke is here to motivate you and ease your anxiety as he takes on the role of Motivational Speaker with his patented PATH © system in his first solo comedy production PERSONAL DEMON HUNTER.
Former Seattleite Returns With Drama & Comedy Exposing Gaps In Regional Queer Support
by Stephi Wild - Sep 22, 2018
The award-winning international touring writer/performer, Ren Lunicke, is coming hot off the heels of Victoria Fringe Festival with an award for BRAVEST SHOW of 2018 for BLOOD RELATIVE. This is after a prodigious nomination for a Development Award in New Zealand for the same play, and several awards for "Ze": queer as f*ck! over the past two years.
Ren Lunicke Presents BLOOD RELATIVE And ZE: QUEER AS F***!
by Julie Musbach - Sep 13, 2018
The award-winning international touring writer/performer, Ren Lunicke, is coming hot off the heels of Victoria Fringe Festival with an award for BRAVEST SHOW of 2018 for BLOOD RELATIVE. This is after a prodigious nomination for a development Award in New Zealand for the same play, and several awards for "Ze": queer as f*ck! over the past two years.
TRUNK! Announced at The Toronto Fringe Kidsfest
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 6, 2018
Kerploding Theatre's Award winning family musical, TRUNK! lands in Toronto for the Fringe Kidsfest this July. This family musical adventure has delighted audiences of all ages across Canada, winning Pick of the Fringe: Family Fest at the 2013 Victoria Fringe Festival and the Hot Ticket Award at the 2017 Halifax Fringe.
Arterberry Unmasks The Mime in the Mirror in HOW HARD COULD THAT BE?
by Julie Musbach - May 31, 2018
At age twenty, Trent Arterberry decided that he would drop out of college, get married, buy a house, raise a family and pay for it all as a mime artist! After all, he reasoned, "how hard could that be?" In his third appearance at the Toronto Fringe Festival, audiences will discover the answer for themselves as the show provides hilarious and poignant anecdotes from the life and times of one of Canada's most well-traveled mime artists.
JCTC Presents Award-Winning, Darkly Comic Monologue About Overcoming Abuse
by Julie Musbach - Sep 10, 2017
What happens when you discover your father is a sexual predator? For the first theatrical show in its new Fear Series, Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) presents Spitting In The Face Of The Devil, a daring, uplifting and often comedic solo show by acclaimed monologist Bob Brader.
The Chan Centre Presents BRAIN An Acclaimed Work by Spoken Word Artist Brendan McLeod
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 6, 2016
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents Brain, a hilarious and heartbreaking monologue about the mind, mental illness, and friendship on November 17 at 7:30pm in the Telus Studio Theatre as part of the Beyond Words series. Written and performed by novelist and slam poet Brendan McLeod, this 2015 Vancouver Fringe Festival Pick of the Fringe has been hailed as "soulful, heartfelt theatre that is moving and challenging, skillfully crafted and entertaining." (Plank Magazine)
COME INSIDE - Portland Gets Naughty
by Liz Cearns - Sep 21, 2016
Portland Theater luminary Mary Macdonald-Lewis adds a saucy soupcon of Victorian sexual rebellion to Portland's first-ever festival of sapiosexual storytelling and titillating theatricality. Her staged reading, The Age of Arousal, joins a heady line up of sex-positive performance ranging from genderqueer exploration to dungeon mistress confessions, all part of Come Inside: A Sex & Culture Theatre Festival curated by Dance Naked Productions.