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: RATS! ANOTHER MUSICAL?
If you enjoy improv comedy, musical theatre and fearless individuals belting their hearts out about the most random occupations and situations, then Rats! Another Musical? will delight you…
REVIEW: KARL THE CAT AND THE JUNKYARD PACK
Playdough Productions offers a delightful and heartfelt musical comedy of discovery and self-acceptance with Karl the Cat and the Junkyard Pack…
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: What If? Improvising Your Alternate Universe
What if you had a fearless improv group granting you insight into an alternative universe?
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: MEN LOVE HORSIES: THE MUSICAL
Men only care about one thing…and it’s thoroughbred.
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: 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: 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: ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT
If you had the opportunity to go back in time, would you take it?
REVIEW: GRAEMAZING: LEVEL 7 WIZARD (SPOILER FREE)
Prepare to get nostalgic with magic and mind experiments using sports cards, comic books and videotapes…