HAMILTON FRINGE FESTIVAL
The Hamilton Fringe Festival returns for its 21st year, running July 16-27, 2025.
The festival features over 50 companies and 350+ performances taking place in historic venues across town.
In 2024, over 17,500 theatregoers attended from all over Canada, the US, and beyond. Hamilton Fringe showcases a diverse lineup of sketch comedy, improv, theatre, dance, puppetry, magic, musicals, and more! Tickets are an affordable $14+ fee (or less) with a one-time purchase of a Fringe Benefits Button ($5).
STEEL CITY REVIEWS SCHEDULE FOR FRINGE 2025
ALL REVIEWS WILL BE POSTED BY JULY 23
Thursday July 17 (Staircase):
Liz: A Traumatic Comedy - Elaine Mae (9M Theatre) - 6:00pm
Pookamhura Mistress of B-Roll - Staircase Main (Theatre Erebus) - 8:30pm
Waiting for* Godot. *, Waiting for, Waiting for - Staircase Main (Breadbox Theatre) - 10:15pm
Friday July 18 (HTI):
Ostrich Park (The Plot Hole Company)- 6:30pm
Moving In (Moving In Productions)- 8:00pm
The Damage Done (Willson Entertainment Productions)- 9:30pm
Saturday July 19 (THEATRE AQUARIUS AND MILLS HARDWARE):
The Pole Shebang - Aquarius (AJL Productions) - 12:15pm
Crane Girl - Aquarius (Falling Iguana Theatre) - 1:45pm
The Fruits that Rot in our Bellies - Aquarius (Femmepire) -4:45pm
A Question of Character - Mills (Minmar Gaslight) - 6:30pm
Mind The Gaps - Mills (Nathan Lise) - 8:30pm
The Heterosexuals - Mills (Redheaded Stepchild Productions) - 10:00pm
Sunday July 20 (Westdale):
500 Doubloons (Friendly Bear Theatre)- 12:00pm
The Fortune Teller (Artword Theatre)- 1:30pm
Hope in Hot Times (Play Play Clown Theatre)- 3:00pm
Gaumukhi (Cow) (The Ghare-Baire Collective) - 5:30pm
Meat Market (Meat Market Collective)- 7:30pm
MONDAY JULY 21
Men Love Horsies: the Musical (Devin Bateson)
Unsolicited: Good Advice Gone Dad (Kristi Boulton)
What If ? Improvising Your Alternate Universe (Watson Productions)
Tuesday July 22 (pLAYERS’ GUILD)
Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit (The Universe Over 60) - 6:00pm
A Gentleman's Murder (Reactor Theatre) - 7:30pm
REVIEW: Unsolicited: Good Advice Gone Dad
Comedian and storyteller Kristi Boulton returns with a heartfelt, hilarious show about the wonderfully weird and unsolicited advice her dad has given her over the years…
REVIEW: The Heterosexuals
Heterosexuals. They walk amongst us. They are, as Johnnie McNamara Walker, states “the greatest threat to good taste…and yet, we never talk about it.” Until now…
REVIEW: A QUESTION OF CHARACTER
The clock is ticking when Leni Riefenstahl is visited by an interviewer with more than questions for the infamous filmmaker in this fascinating thriller from Minmar Gaslight Productions…
REVIEW: MIND THE GAPS
Nathan Lise is here to tell you some true stories from his life. Using improv to unpack organization gone wrong, he offers a charmingly vulnerable performance that tries to find meaning in the gaps…
REVIEW: THE FRUITS THAT ROT IN OUR BELLIES
What does the body remember when it begins to create a life? A profoundly haunting question asked by writer/director Kitoko Mai in their surrealist, supernatural tale about sisters, secrets and psychosis…
REVIEW: CRANE GIRL
Inspired by a real event, Best New Play Award-winner Crane Girl follows a woman who walks out of her life and climbs a crane…
REVIEW: MEN LOVE HORSIES: THE MUSICAL
Men only care about one thing…and it’s thoroughbred.
REVIEW: MOVING IN
Can you ever really know someone? This question is explored in Moving In, a deeply challenging drama from writer/director Elias Campbell…
REVIEW: OSTRICH PARK
An unhinged and loving parody of the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, The Plot Hole Company brings another comedic hit to the Hamilton Fringe …
REVIEW: THE DAMAGE DONE
What happens after too much has happened?
An uncomfortable but exceptionally well-staged and performed drama that will leave you feeling equal parts hopeful and melancholy…
REVIEW: Waiting for* Godot. *Waiting for Waiting for
In this reimagining of the Beckett classic, the hilarious cast will have you laughing, cringing, empathizing and waiting (literally) for more…
REVIEW: A Non Canonical Musical Adventure with Pookamhura: Mistress of B-Roll
A Non Canonical Musical Adventure with Pookamhura: Mistress of B-Roll explores themes of self-discovery, acceptance, and the complexities of life’s adventures.
It provides accessible insight into the world of online gaming, using song and dance to carve out its important message about stereotypes, stigmas, bigotry and finding a community that sees you beyond the character you play as…
REVIEW: Liz, A Traumatic Comedy
Liz, a Traumatic Comedy is about Liz. It might also be about healing from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, through art, friendship, family and defiant hopefulness…and gnomes.
REVIEW: OBJECT OF STRANGENESS
Through his humour, Gavin Stephens navigates the complexities of race, culture, and societal change, searching for where he truly belongs…
REVIEW: NOOK AND CRANNY: TWIN DETECTIVES
Estranged twins and former kid-detectives reunite as adults to solve the murder of the century.
REVIEW: ABD WITH MARK THE C
Mark Cassidy's heart-warming memoir of growing up in small-town Ontario motels.
REVIEW: UNDER THE COVER
Using dance theatre to convey the experience of social anxiety Under the Cover raises further awareness on mental health…
REVIEW: COMMEDIA DELLE STELLE
What would it be like if Star Trek was written 600 years earlier? How would a humble troupe of street performers create the stories of one of the most beloved TV shows of all time?
REVIEW: THE HATERS TOUR
Sam and Surer are narcissistic sensitivity trainers that think they're changing hearts and minds but come to realize is the material their teaching challenges who they are as people…
