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).
Quotes from Fringe 2025
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Quotes from Fringe 2025 〰️
REVIEW: MEAT MARKET
Strap in as we take a raunchy and unapologetic journey through the perils of online hook up apps...
REVIEW: What If? Improvising Your Alternate Universe
What if you had a fearless improv group granting you insight into an alternative universe?
REVIEW: THE FORTUNE TELLER
A quirky comedy from Artword Theatre that has some insightful things to reveal about family, love, the universe and the Here and Now…
REVIEW: 500 DOUBLOONS
In this clever comedy from Friendly Bear Theatre, this story asks: when history gives us no details, what legends do we choose to invent?
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: 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: 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…