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TOFringe: Stealing Home

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Jul. 4 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: Spangle Theatre presents Stealing Home at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. A comedy set in a fictional Toronto neighbourhood, it pokes fun – and throws more than a little shade – at people who live in an affluent part of the city and their NIMBYism toward a proposed supportive housing project in their neighbourhood. Running on the Alumnae Theatre Mainspace.

TOFringe: Divine Monster

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 2 – Sat, Jul. 12, 2025: Bernhardt Productions presents Divine Monster at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. An encounter in a Paris cemetery between the ghost of the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt and a distraught young Canadian musician leads to a passionate debate about art, fame and success in a world now dominated by social media. Presented in Soulpepper Theatre’s RBC Finance Studio in the Distillery Historic District.

TOFringe: Me and You and the Highland Coo

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 2 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: Happy as a Clam Productions presents Me and You and the Highland Coo at Soulpepper’s TD Studio as part of the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. Experience a taste of Scotland in Toronto on a road trip adventure that reminds us to look for the light in times of darkness. For audiences 14+.

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.

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.

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+.

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+.

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+.

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.

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+.

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+.

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.