TK Fringe — Kingston Theatre Alliance

From the Shire of Middle Earth to the Metropolis of DC comics, have you ever wished you could visit a fictional town? Would you believe me if I told you it might be possible? Well, kind of. [Blank] Town Bus Tours, run by the infectiously enthusiastic duo Tony Babcock and Wilding, can take you there. At the beginning of the show, they will hand you a pamphlet and repeatedly instruct you […]

I must begin with a disclaimer: this review, like the show at its centre, contains an indecent number of genitalia references.

Alex (Craig Norton) works as a photographer for British Home Stores, he gets to travel regularly to his father in law’s villa in the south of France, he has a loving wife and an eight year old daughter named Lucy. It would seem Alex has it all, but suddenly everything begins to slip from his grasp. After playing in July as a part of the Domino One-Act Play Festival, Sea […]

Madness Lies is Chloë Whitehorn’s contribution to this year’s TK Fringe Festival. Described as “Hamlet meets Girl, Interrupted,” the play follows the story of Lettie (Shannon Donnelly) and Leah (Jennifer Verardi), two sisters who find themselves in a psych ward after the death of their father.  Judging by that description alone, I was not expecting the amount of levity and humour that Whitehorn’s script delivers. Darkness aside, the banter between […]

There is just something so exciting about attending a show where the performer knows almost as little as you do about what will unfold in the next forty minutes. For it being my first time ever seeing an improv show and also my first time watching someone play Dungeons & Dragons, I was pleasantly surprised at how easily I could follow Father, Forgive Me from start to finish. The story […]

The first ever Fringe Festival was established in 1947 by a bunch of artists who were not included in the Edinburgh International Festival, eventually earning its title because it was “on the fringes.” The Edinburgh Fringe festival ended up being a monumental hit and has grown to be the largest performing arts festival in the world; the concept has been adapted globally with literally hundreds of Fringe festivals popping up across […]

Artificial Intelligence has long been a fictional harbinger of the apocalypse, but in recent years this dystopian trope has become all too real. The issue threatens millions of jobs, especially those of artists, so understandably the arts community is grappling with these concerns through their respective mediums.  Now playing at the TK Fringe: Studio Reflection presents The Turing Test, translated by Yuriy Popov and Yana Menov from the Russian play […]

Andrea Superstein, like many women before her, was told that becoming a mother would be the single best experience of her life. But when it felt hard, and when it didn’t feel magical all the time, she started to wonder if anyone else felt the same way. So, she went looking for answers. She interviewed other mothers, wrote songs, and turned those songs into an album. Now, that album has […]

Janet Kish has worn many hats in Canadian theatre, including playwright, director, and educator. She spent years teaching high school drama, and her impact has echoed far beyond the classroom. Many of her former students have gone on to build careers in the arts, with Kish cheering them on. This year, one of her plays is being staged at the Baby Grand theatre as part of the upcoming TK Fringe […]

After first visiting Kingston on a grade five field trip, vocalist and 2025 JUNO nominee Andrea Superstein is returning, this time as a performer. She’s eager to be a part of a thriving theatre scene infused with energy and magic that happens over just ten days. As a part of the TK Fringe Festival, Superstein will perform Oh Mother F#@%*!, a show that explores the vulnerable highs and lows of […]

There is something beautiful and a little magical about a family that creates together. The Socrates Sisters, Stephanie Rehm and Eleanor Daly, are writers, producers, and musical composers of a new play Detention, which will be premiering at the TK Fringe Festival this summer. For the longtime educators and first-time playwrights, the journey to this year’s Fringe Festival has been a full-on family affair. “We’re not a big troupe—it’s me, […]

For me, one of the main draws to theatre is how we frequently come back to the same stories over and over again. Whether that be through a new production of an old script, or reimagining the same story anew, the past is always on stage to comment on the present. Chloë Whitehorn is one of Kington’s more prolific playwrights, and for this year’s Kingston Fringe Festival she is producing […]