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Write for us! Coverage of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival

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Mooney on Theatre is looking for folks to review Toronto Fringe Festival shows, which run from June 29 to July 10, 2016.

In a lot of ways Fringe Festivals embody what Mooney on Theatre holds dear, theatre accessibility. They are cheap theatre that is attended by a wide range of people, many of whom are not theatregoers the rest of the year.

With this in mind, we put a lot of effort into providing as much coverage of the Toronto Fringe Festival as we can, including: covering each show in a relatively substantive way; running contests for free tickets; reporting on the buzz surrounding the fringe and more. If you want an idea of what the coverage will likely look like, check out the Fringe Festival category on this site. To make this happen, we need to bring on more contributors.

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2016 Next Stage Theatre Festival Review Index

NSTFThe Toronto Fringe Festival runs a yearly festival called Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF), which they bill as “12 days of Canada’s best indie theatre.” There’s a wide variety of shows playing at the festival, and we’ve reviewed all of them! Check out our coverage below to find out more about the shows playing and to see our reviews.

A full festival schedule is available here.

If you want to read all of our reviews at once, click right here.

Or follow the links below to individual reviews:

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Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Wednesday, July 8th

fringe for free graphicWow, what a heluva first weekend for the Toronto Fringe Festival. Our Mooney on Theatre team has been working overtime over the past few days to bring you reviews of every show in this year’s festival.

We’re obviously excited by the shows on offer for this year’s festival and we hope you are too. To get you a little more excited, how about some free tickets from our daily Fringe for Free contest?

For every day of the festival, we’ll be giving out tickets to 5 shows. Exciting, right? What’s even more exciting is how easy it is to enter – you can enter each of the five contests by sending us an email (more details below).

Remember, you need to enter each contest individually. If we pick your name, you’ve got two tickets heading your way.

Check out the list of the 5 shows playing on Wednesday, July 8th after the jump.

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Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Friday, July 3rd

fringe for free graphicHappy Canada Day! Today we celebrate the birth of our nation and the birth of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival which starts today! Being the savvy Fringe Festival-goers I know you all are, I’m sure you’re headed to the festival the first weekend to catch as much new stuff as you can and totally not procrastinating and waiting in the lines for the busier second weekend? Right?

Of course being an early bird is even easier if you won free tickets from our Fringe for Free contest!

For every day of the festival, we’ll be giving out tickets to 5 shows. Exciting, right? What’s even more exciting is how easy it is to enter – you can enter each of the five contests by sending us an email (more details below).

Remember, you need to enter each contest individually. If we pick your name, you’ve got two tickets heading your way.

Check out the list of the 5 shows playing on Friday, July 3rd after the jump.

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Starry Notions – Toronto Fringe 2015 Press Release

“Grit, glitter & laughter of cabaret star Ryan G. Hinds with live band”

Starry_Notions

Excerpted from press release:

You’ll rarely see solo cabaret onstage at the Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s a hard gig to pull off – you need personality, vocal chops, charisma, and stories to tell. Cabaret artist & rising star Ryan G. Hinds brings it all, and strips it down to its bare roots at the Toronto Fringe Festival, Annex Theatre for 7 intimate shows in July, backed by a fabulously talented live musical trio. Continue reading Starry Notions – Toronto Fringe 2015 Press Release →