HAMILTON FRINGE FESTIVAL
audience choice 2025 award winner:
OSTRICH PARK
CRITIC’S PICK 2025 AWARD WINNER:
MEN LOVE HORSIES: THE MUSICAL
HONOURABLE MENTION: UNSOLICITED: GOOD ADVICE GONE DAD
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: 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: 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: 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: MEN LOVE HORSIES: THE MUSICAL
Men only care about one thing…and it’s thoroughbred.