Hamilton Festival Theatre Company
What is the Hamilton Fringe Festival?
The Hamilton Fringe Festival is Hamilton Ontario’s biggest, boldest 12-day performing arts festival WITH PERFORMANCES IN 15 DIFFERENT VENUES (INDOOR AND OUTDOOR) ACROSS THE CITY.
Welcoming 50+ performance companies from the local, national, and international arts community, and with over 400 performances on our stages, this annual summer arts festival draws 25,000+ attendees and engages 150+ volunteers each year. With live comedy, theatre, music, dance, visual art, film, family fare, and more – there truly is something for everyone at Hamilton Fringe!
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REVIEW: THE OUTLAW AND THE SON
Set in an otherworldly place, a weathered cowboy comes to terms with his past through one-sided conversations and original western rock songs…
REVIEW: MARK II
Powerful, eloquent and passionate, Tom Bates returns to the Hamilton Fringe with the second half of his compelling performance of The Gospel of Mark…
REVIEW: FELT CUTE, MIGHT OVERSHARE LATER!
What do you do when your most embarrassing stories are also your best ones? You get a puppet to tell them for you. Felt Cute, Might Overshare Later! is a solo comedy confessional where Kristi Boulton and her felt alter-ego revisit a lifetime of cringeworthy childhood catastrophes and romantic misfires and is a masterful demonstration of storytelling prowess at this year’s Fringe…
REVIEW: LOVE AND CRAIC
Award-winning storyteller Carlyn Rhamey (The ADHD Project) takes the audience on a Celtic adventure like no other. Featuring perilous cliffs, handsome rebels, Viking ghosts, heartbreak and underpants gone rogue, Rhamey’s Love and Craic is equal parts hilarious mishaps and vulnerable catharsis.
REVIEW: Gaumukhi (Cow)
Gaumukhi is an existential drama tracing a young cow’s journey as they come to terms with profound questions of existence in a meditative and truly captivating piece of theatre…
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: 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: MEN LOVE HORSIES: THE MUSICAL
Men only care about one thing…and it’s thoroughbred.
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…
REVIEW: ARTS AND CRAFTS FOR GROWN UPS (SPOILER FREE)
With the help of some LEGO bricks, a deck of cards, and a table full of craft materials, Ben sets off on a journey to find the meaning of “real” magic.
REVIEW: MORE MISSING EPISODES
Nathan Lise tries to recall stories of missed potential, lost causes, and failure…
REVIEW: SPOOK SHOW (SPOILER FREE)
A new show by award winning Illusionist Nick Wallace that combines ghost stories, magic and illusions, elements of turn-of-the-century spook shows, and themes of fading memory and death (you know, a feel good show).
REVIEW: THINGS ARE FINE ACTUALLY
Laugh along with veteran Fringe performer Neil McArthur as he navigates surveillance capitalism, parenthood, and the pressure to be five stars at everything, all the time.
REVIEW: THE UNDERWEAR FAIRY (AND OTHER LOVE STORIES)
Join award-winning comedian & storyteller, Kristi Boulton, on a journey through embarrassing, delightful, occasionally heartbreaking true stories, including the mystery that 100k+ TikTok sleuths couldn't solve.
REVIEW: GRAEMAZING: LEVEL 7 WIZARD (SPOILER FREE)
Prepare to get nostalgic with magic and mind experiments using sports cards, comic books and videotapes…