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Toronto Star
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
Toronto Fringe Festival 2025: A complete guide with reviews and our critics' top picks
The 37th edition of the Toronto Fringe Festival is now running through July 13 at venues across the city. This summer's festival features more than 100 productions, including new musicals, clown comedies and family dramas. The Star will have comprehensive coverage of the 2025 Fringe, including reviews of roughly three dozen productions from Joshua Chong, Glenn Sumi and Alexa MacKie. In the spirit of the Fringe, the Star will not be awarding star ratings. Instead, recommended productions will be denoted with a 'Critic's Pick' designation.
Toronto Star
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
These shows won big at the 2025 Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards
When I met with 11 other theatre critics in the Toronto Star newsroom on Monday to hash out the 2025 Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards (TTCAs), my colleague Glenn Sumi cheekily compared our process to that of the Catholic cardinals participating in this week's conclave. While those Vatican electors were seeking candidates who were papabile (that is, cardinals worthy of being pope), we were looking for shows that could be considered 'critibile.' Joking aside, it's an apt analogy. My fellow critics and I entered voting day with nomination lists that could likely rival in length those of the papabile. More than 100 theatre productions opened in the city between mid-May 2024 and the end of this April, the eligibility period for this season's TTCAs.
