Latest posts tagged with #ComedyTO on Bluesky
B/w @eldritchtheatre.bsky.social's silly/perverse ...GRAND GUGINOL, Coal Mine's clever/divisive EUREKA DAY (still tix left 4 next week's extension!), & Bad Dog Theatre's PEOPLE OF THE CITY (opened last night @factorytheatre.bsky.social), there's lot of comedic choices on #TheaTO stages RN. #ComedyTO
Can't wait to get home, slip into something comfortable, & watch @chrislockefun.bsky.social 's new special: youtu.be/rXBHo63Iz0c?... #ComedyTO #CdnCult
My #FringeTO '25 wrap up thread! Highlights (+), lowlights (—), & ending w/ artist & BSky Shout Outs (S/Os). Interspersed in the thread is links to more post-festival coverage. (Below, a link to my completed review thread, w/ 34/35 @toronto-fringe.bsky.social shows micro-reviewed.) #TheaTO #ComedyTO
Cheers to @glennsumi.bsky.social for the S/O, & for keeping the convo going, esp. WRT a future life for gr8 #FringeTO shows in #TheaTO & #ComedyTO venues.
I'm seeing shows 31-35 today, & will update my BSky micro-review thread Mon. I've a post-fest thread planned too w/ S/Os, & suggestions for '26.
#1 Clown Comedy with Victor & Priscilla
@toronto-fringe.bsky.social only four shows left! Pay What You Can on Tue July 8 at 4pm & Thur July 10 at 9:30pm
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A woman sings into a microphone, with a tie-dyed filter superimposed. Text reads, "Good Enough Live Karaoke, we play, you sing!"
Taking this eve off from #FringeTO shows to go to @toronto-fringe.bsky.social's Live Band Karaoke @ Old Flame Brewing, feat. Good Enough Karaoke. Will I sing Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman, both? Come see! 8pm onwards... #TheaTO #ComedyTO
There's been overnight break-ins 2 nights in a row @ Alumnae Theatre. Venue & #FringeTO companies performing there have had 1000's of $ worth of equipment stolen. I hear an assistance fund is planned (through @fringe-toronto.bsky.social ?), but in the meantime, buy ALL their merch. #TheaTO #ComedyTO
Actors Justan Myers-Chapman, Luca McPhee, & Nick Dolan in a scene from IRIS (SAYS GOODBYE), playing July 2nd-12th at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. Photo by Stefi Kopp.
12 @toronto-fringe.bsky.social shows in. More threaded micro reviews soon! Favs so far include IRIS SAYS GOODBYE, DAVID LYNCH'S SEINFELD, EMILIO'S A MILLION CHAMELEONS, THE ADDING MACHINE, SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, and ADAM BAILEY'S 3 DEATHS. Photo by Stefi Kopp. #FringeTO #TheaTO #ComedyTO
[A brief interruption to my #FringeTO micro reviews to remind y'all that @toronto-fringe.bsky.social is collating preview coverage here: fringetoronto.com/fringe/press (The hed of the webpage mentions reviews, though those will pop up fast & furious, we'll see if they keep up...) #TheaTO #ComedyTO ]
On an orange background, a copy of the program guide for the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival, with a page of the schedule highlighting some shows on the first 2 days.
Here begins my @toronto-fringe.bsky.social '25 thread! Hopefully as the fest continues, all the #TheaTO & #ComedyTO folx I know on Meta & X will have figured out BSky's the only SM platform that 1. easily shares links & news, & 2. isn't overrun by toxicity. So yes, here (only here!) we go! #FringeTO
Monday 30 June 2025 Fringe Is Funny showcase @ 7:30-9:30pm Comedy Bar Canadian Beef, feat. @ 8-10pm Comedy Bar Wednesday 02 July 2025 Songs By a Wannabe @ 5:30pm, Young Centre Iris Says Goodbye @ 7:30-8:50pm Young Centre Judge Mintz @ 10pm, Tarragon Theatre Thursday 03 July 2025 David Lynch's Seinfeld @ 12pm, Helen Gardiner Phelan Theatre Have Fun Kids @ 2pm, Young Centre Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl, @ 4:45pm, Alumnae Theatre Adam Bailey: My Three Deaths, @ 6:15pm, Native Earth Performing Arts, Aki Studio The Adding Machine @ 9-10:20pm, 639 Queen St W Friday 04 July 2025 Emilio's A Million Chameleons, @ 2:15pm, Young Centre Something To Look Forward To, @ 4:45pm, VideoCabaret Sweet Action Theatre Presents..., @ 7:30pm, Sweet Action Theatre People Suck..., @ 9:30- 11pm, Theatre Passe Muraille Saturday 05 July 2025 A Play We Wrote Just Now, @ 11:30am, Tarragon Theatre RPF VS. Bad Dog, @ 2:30 - 4pm, MacGregor Playground Apothecary, @ 6 - 7:30pm, Theatre Passe Muraille Fringe Karaoke, @ 9pm - 11pm, 43 Tank House Lane Sunday 06 July 2025 Sweet & Sultry Burlesque, @ 3pm, Helen Gardiner Phelan Theatre Quiz Icarus, @ 4:45pm, Helen Gardiner Phelan Theatre Bitty-Bat & Friends, @ 7:45pm - 8:45pm, Young Centre Bitty-Bat & Friends 7:45pm, Young Centre f
Finally got my #FringeTO schedule sorted for the first 5 days of the festival! #TheaTO #ComedyTO
@clareblackwood.bsky.social & @avacomedy.bsky.social are active BSky posters; @mrchrisbetts.bsky.social, @jonblair.bsky.social, @nickflanagan.bsky.social are quiet, but here. Who else from the #Toronto comedy scene would y'all recommend following? #ComedyTO
Spoke too soon! @imchriswilson.bsky.social IS on BlueSky, AND I was following him already! (Search function here is still not 100%.)
Maybe someone w/ free time (not me ATM, but maybe soon) should do a #ComedyTO starter pack? @mbalazo.bsky.social & @chrislockefun.bsky.social post here—who else?
I was just thinking how I'd love to see a musical feat. #ComedyTO stalwarts w/ voices—ppl like Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Chris Wilson, Jackie Pirico, Chris Sandiford, Jordan Armstrong, etc., etc. (Also, who are none of these immensely funny #CdnCult talents not on Blue Sky yet??)
An April opening is planned for this the underused, now under renovations East End #Toronto theatre/cinema, that hosted @outsidethemarch.bsky.social's MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY. Sounds like its new owner envisions it as a flexible space, open to #TheaTO or #ComedyTO programming...
Great East Coast profile of #Toronto based comic @avacomedy.bsky.social. Give 'em hell, Ava! #ComedyTO www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/t...
#TOSketchfest kicks off this Wed. Some shows (Julie Noike, Tom Hearn) already sold out; some SHOULD be, but not yet (Templeton Philharmonic, @jonblair.bsky.social, Rapp Battlez). I'm esp. keen to FINALLY see @johnniewalker.bsky.social's THE HETEROSEXUALS. Tix here: torontosketchfest.com #ComedyTO
Saturday & Sunday are (once again) sold out - but there are still tix for grabs for tonight's 7:30pm & 9:30pm shows! #TheaTO #ComedyTO
The Theatre Centre, capitalizing on @aislingmurph.bsky.social & other's rave reviews of MONKS' opening night, have in the past hour added tickets to this week's too-short run (& I'll bet they won't last another hour, so hop on that ass... ): theatrecentre.org/tickets/?eid... #TheaTO #ComedyTO
Headed to this in a few min. Probably will try to cajole Ava into a post-set drink @ Comedy Bar (& dare I hope, Owl's Club karaoke?) after... #ComedyTO
#ComedyTO job alert!
"Looking for another tech to join our Comedy Bar team. Email gary@comedybar.ca if you have experience or are interested."
And another! More #TheaTO reviews of (good, and well produced) improvised shows like this, please! #ComedyTO
Boosting this because it's rare (far too rare) for a comedy show, esp. an improv comedy show, to get a proper review in #Toronto. In this case, being on an established theatre's stage no doubt helped; this show likely wouldn't have been reviewed if it was at, say, Comedy Bar.
#TheaTO #ComedyTO
I'll be judging @mrchrisbetts.bsky.social's show tonight @ 7pm @ Comedy Bar (945 Bloor St. W.), as part of the Festival of New Formats. There's a FREE show debuting every hour (7/8/9/10pm), incl. comedic Cdn takes on "Song Exploder" & the BBC series "Would I Lie To You?" Swing by! #ComedyTO
I chuckle a bit @ the lede "quickly becoming a standout figure", b/c @robbibaker.bsky.social 's been improvising for over 2 decades in #Toronto. That said, I wish more interviewees answered questions with the same vim & verve as he does here. GREAT answers! #ComedyTO #TheaTO
Standing in the foreground, in front of a mural depicting the fictional feasting on St. Creskin's regenerating taint, L to R, is a masked Navy Sailor hilding a red rose, a blond-bobbed fair-skinned simpleton in a blue pointed cap (Adam Niebergall), a brown skinned snd silver-suited Lord William Sonoma (Sharjil Rasool), a Black-skinned Italian noble (Chris Sandiford), and a masked white man all in black and a paisley bow tie.
A close 2nd is Henri Faberge & co's Creskin's Day holiday spectaculars. This year, @ the climax, a medium (Clare McConnell) summoned the ghost of Creskin's widow (Kayla Lorette), who in turn summoned her heavy metal playing, horned demon BF (Alex Tindal).
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I'll be at Teddy Beer again tonight for karaoke! (A number of #ComedyTO folx went to last week's 1st edition, & quite enjoyed themselves.)
Storyteller Joanne O'Sullivan speaks into a mic in the backroom of Teddy Beer, hosting her show The Spit.
Comedian Chris Gibbs gestures while on stage at Teddy Beer, as the headliner for The Spit, a weekly (in December 2024) storytelling show curated by host Joanne O'Sullivan.
Caught the 1st edition of The Spit, Joanne O'Sullivan's storytelling show @ Teddy Beer. Crazy insider details on the SNC-Lavalin scandal from @daveseglins.bsky.social, + pro funny ppl Chris Gibbs, Christel Bartelse, & Dan Galea. Runs every Monday @ 7pm in Dec '24, in the cozy Cave. #ComedyTO #TheaTO
Cool, cool.
(Someone let me know when @StarEntertain is resurrected and starts posting on BSky.)
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