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Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Performance Performance

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text overlapping a photograph. Top of the image: #1 Clown Comedy with Victor & Priscilla, with the TO Fringe logo below it. A blonde woman and a man with short dark hair, both cross-dressed in Victorian clothing and wearing red cone-shaped party hats, gesture with their hands, mouths and eyes open with excitement and delight. Two fans, with a draped black patterned fabric, hang on the blue, star-covered fabric background.

TOFringe: #1 Clown Comedy with Victor & Priscilla

PAST EVENT: Wed, Jul. 2 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: #1 Clown Comedy with Victor & Priscilla comes to the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival at VideoCabaret. The zany, cross-dressing, historically inaccurate Victorian-era clown siblings return – this time, they’re thinking of quitting vaudeville to become upper-class toffs. Sure to entertain with song, dance, witty wordplay, slapstick, drag & puppets, while touching on the deeper theme of LGBTQ+ history. PG-13, appropriate for older children.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of a man with short dark blond hair and a scruff of a beard and mustache, wearing a light plaid shirt over a light blue t-shirt. His hands grasp the sides of his head as he gazes at us, eyes wide and teeth clenched with stress.

TOFringe: Jack Goes to Therapy: A (Somewhat) Romantic Comedy

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Jul. 4 – Fri, Jul. 11, 2025: Zac Williams brings his critically acclaimed solo show Jack Goes to Therapy: A (Somewhat) Romantic Comedy to the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. An unforgettable and loveable story of a Kindergarten teacher in therapy with a broken heart after his boyfriend leaves him for the man they had a threesome with. Running at Alumnae Theatre’s Mainspace.

Past event: Greyed out poster image featuring text on a purple background. Mathew's Big Broadway Bash written in marquee lighting font. To the left of "Bash": Toronto Fringe. To the right of "Bash" Toronto Cabaret Productions.

TOFringe: Mathew’s Big Broadway Bash

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 – Sat, Jul. 12, 2025: Toronto Cabaret Productions presents Mathew’s Big Broadway Bash at the Heliconian Club as part of the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. This isn’t just a show – it’s a high-energy, feel-good love letter to the musicals we grew up on and still belt in the shower. Come out and sing along! For audiences 12+.

Past event: Greyed out image of two actors on stage, performing with life-sized puppets. The man (left) holds a puppet of a bearded Giant dressed in green, while the woman (right) holds a puppet of a harp, which is in the shape of a woman wearing an orange gown and turban.

TOFringe: JACK’d, a Thief, a Murder, some Sex and a BEANSTALK!

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: JACK’d Up Productions presents JACK’d, a Thief, a Murder, some Sex and a BEANSTALK! at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. Using rather naughty inuendoes, ribald humour and puppets, JACK’d asks us to question the stories we’ve been told and, more importantly, the stories we tell ourselves. Running at Rafos Hall. For audiences 16+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring photo, illustration and text. To the left, an elderly man with a salt and pepper receding hairline, wearing glasses and a white shirt, glances up at us as he writes at a desk covered in papers. In the top right corner, illustrated yellow post-it notes with the words Things My Dad Kept. By: Ronit Rubinstein, written in script on separate note pages. In the bottom right corner, illustrated blank white pages float, with paper airplanes flying about over them and around the photo of the man, including diagrams of how to make one.

TOFringe: Things My Dad Kept

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: Award-winning playwright and veteran storyteller Ronit Rubinstein presents her hilarious solo show, Things My Dad Kept, at Soulpepper’s TD Studio as part of the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. What would you do if, 12 years after losing someone you love, you discovered that they'd documented every moment of your life? And does it count as hoarding if the thing hoarded is... memories? For ages 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image of three performers of varying ethnicities & gender expressions, the one on the right holding a puppet, stand outdoors side by side, with a cloudy blue sky in the background.

Toronto Fringe Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 2 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: The Toronto Fringe Festival presents its 37th annual performance festival, with over 100 shows at 22 venues across the city, including three dance shows, five KidsFest shows, over a dozen new Canadian musicals, the Next Stage Series, plus dramatic theatre, clown, storytelling, comedy, puppets & more. Best of Fringe returns this year, from Fri, Jul. 18 – Sun, Jul. 20 at the Meridian Arts Centre.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring illustration and text in black and orange against a white background. To the left: A medium close-up retro illustration of a man wearing a suit and an orange tie, winking and smiling as he gives a thumbs up with his right hand. To the right: "People Suck" in black font, with the words "a musical airing of grievances" in white font inside an orange rectangle.

TOFringe: People Suck: a musical airing of grievances

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 2 – Sat, Jul. 12, 2025: Megnpete Make Cool Stuff's award-winning People Suck: a musical airing of grievances returns to the Toronto Fringe Festival at Theatre Passe Muraille with new songs, new laughs & the same terrible people. This hilarious & all-too-relatable musical theatre song cycle dares to ask: WT*A*F is wrong with humanity? For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image of a mystical creature enshrouded in a cloak of multi-coloured strips of fabric, the face covered in a red patterned fabric, gazes out. A selection of African drums in the background.

TOFringe: LULU

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: The Walking Griot, a TYA collective for Black children and youth, brings its joyous new show LULU to the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. A music-filled adventure into the mystical folk realm, young Lulu is running out of time to save her ailing grandmother. On at Soulpepper Theatre’s Tank House Theatre in the Distillery Historic District. For audiences 8+.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of two women facing off in three-quarter profile, both wearing dresses that reveal their shoulders and arms. The woman in the foreground, left, has long brown hair, pulled back and hanging down her back, and wears a dark brown dress, while the woman in the background, right, has her dark hair styled up and wears a red dress, a string of pearls and pearl drop earrings.

TOFringe: The Iron Mask

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 - Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: Breakaway Entertainment presents the world premiere of The Iron Mask at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. A jazz-filled dance jukebox musical, it’s a bold reimagining of the classic Dumas tale. This production is presented at Theatre Passe Muraille, in partnership with the Alliance for Canadian Musicals, spotlighting new Canadian musical theatre at this year's Fringe.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and a graphic representation of the Dora Mavor Moore Award. Top: 45h Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Presented by the Romano D'Andrea Foundation. Hosted by Peter Fernandes. June 30th 2025. Below the text, six abstract human figures, arms raised to form a circle above their heads. Each figure is in a rainbow colour: red, orange, yellow, green, blue & purple.

The 45th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards

PAST EVENT: One night only – Mon, Jun. 30, 2025: The 45th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards at Toronto's Meridian Hall, celebrating the outstanding theatre, dance and opera that filled Toronto stages last season. Hosted by celebrated theatre actor Peter Fernandes, the Doras are presented by the Romano D’Andrea Foundation and administered by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA).

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photographs. Top: A Cornucopia of Canada's Most Fabulous Queer Comedians. Pride-A-Palooza. Centre left: A man with short brown hair wearing a plaid jacket over a white t-shirt smiles as he glances to the right. Headliner Andrew Johnston. Right centre: A pentagon of photos of comics of various genders & ethnicities with the GAYAF Comedy logo in the centre. Right: Ajahnis Charley, Anasimone, Heather Mariko, Viza & special guests. Hosted by Robert Watson. Bottom: Friday June 20th 8PM | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre | Linktr.ee/gayafcomedy Top right: Queer Pride logo.

Gay AF Comedy Pride-A-Palooza

PAST EVENT: One night only – Fri, Jun. 20, 2025: Gay AF Comedy, in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, presents Pride-A-Palooza as part of Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025, serving up a cornucopia of Canada’s top queer comedic talent just in time for Pride! Hosted by Robert Watson, with headliner Andrew Johnston & featuring Ajahnis Charley, Heather Mariko, Anasimone, Viza & more. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of two women standing close together against a red background, just about to kiss. The woman on the left is dressed in white & the other is dressed in black, her right hand raised to touch the woman in white under the chin.

Secret Sisters

PAST EVENT: One night only – Wed, Jun. 18, 2025: Les Femmes Fatales, in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, present Secret Sisters as part of Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025. Curated and hosted by Dainty Smith, this is an evening of burlesque performance celebrating queer, sapphic and femme love. For audiences 19+.