HAMILTON FRINGE FESTIVAL
audience choice 2025 award winner:
CRITIC’S PICK 2025 AWARD WINNER:
(Will be announced Sunday July 27!)
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).
Quotes from Fringe 2025
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REVIEW: HOPE IN HOT TIMES
A clown comedy musical with tremendous heart and important environmental messages, Hope In Hot Times, brings the influences of family friendly entertainers such as Sharon, Lois and Bram and Fred Penner to the Hamilton Fringe…

REVIEW: MEN LOVE HORSIES: THE MUSICAL
Men only care about one thing…and it’s thoroughbred.

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: THE POPPY WHORER PICTURE SHOW
A live-action parody of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but this time, it’s a time warp informed from a trans perspective.