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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…
REVIEW: LULU
The time has come for Lulu to embark on an epic trial of a lifetime. As she encounters folklore creatures and learns many lessons, how much of herself will she come to know?