The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press' reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press' reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press’ reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
Five-star fringe
As the festival enters its final weekend here are 10 reviews that earned five-star accolades from the Free Press fringe team.
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Theatre goers head towards Venue #4 of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival for a Friday afternoon showing of Write, Rewrite, Repeat. The festival has turned two empty stores at Portage Place into theatre venues.
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany
Epidermis Circus
I Am The Most Unfeeling Doctor In The World (and Other Tales From The Emergency Room)
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
The Magic That Is Me
Meagre Joys
Mr. Coffeehead
Pretty Beast
Robert Will Show You The Door Ttales Of Being Fired)
Scattered Seeds
Six-legs
Slowly And Sideways
Tango: To The Pointe
Whatever Happens After
Write, Rewrite, Repeat
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES
You never know what to expect at the fringe: Joanna and Orlando Braun with their daughter Willow are surprised by the Causin’ a Commotion Chinese lion.
Bushtits, Shih Tzus And Private Dicks: All’s Fur In Love And Noir
Contractions
How I Met My Mother
Is This Yours
Kateryna And Havrylo
Monster Makers
The Morning After With Pam & Paula
Romeo & Juliet
Se’ed
Something In The Water
The Stakeout
Songs From A Wine-stained Notebook
A Toast To Prohibition
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Local - Fringe standup
Six-year-old Layla Allen, her mom Cher Allan and dad Tod Allen spend their day off work hanging out in Old Market Square watching performances and playing games on the first of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on Wednesday.
The WINNIPEG FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL officially starts today,
JULY 13th and runs till July 24th. This year they are showcasing 113 performing companies, daily entertainment at Old Market Square and family fun in our new Kids Fringe location. Tickets, programs and passes are on sale now!
July 13th, 2022
There’s a famous fictional story in which a ruby-slippered, tornado-tossed traveller takes a wide-eyed look around and declares, “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
There are probably some residents of south River Heights, on the other hand, who looked out their windows last Sunday and felt as if Kansas — the U.S. state that lies smack-dab in the middle of meteorological maps outlining the area known as “tornado alley” — was exactly where they’d somehow ended up.
There is now confirmation of a tornado touching down within Winnipeg, after several residents reported seeing funnel-shaped clouds during the intense thunderstorm, and the magnitude and extremely localized nature of the damage — including felled trees, snapped hydro poles, scattered fences and the deposit of a random automobile on one resident’s front lawn — certainly shows forces more formidable than strong wind gusts were at play.
As Manitoba Hydro and City of Winnipeg crews continued the days-long effort to clean up the mess and restore power to thousands of homes affected by the long-weekend weather blast, some of the conversation related to the storm focused on how extreme events such as this have become more commonplace in a region where tornadoes were long considered a rarity.
Winnipeg is being lobbied to add strict new limits to its responsible pet ownership bylaw to reduce what some deem a pet “overpopulation.”
A city committee took a step toward studying some of those ideas on Monday.
Jonas Watson, chairman of the Winnipeg Humane Society, told council’s protection and community services committee that too many unwanted or improperly cared-for pets place “a never-ending strain on animal shelters and rescue organizations.”
“One of the most tragic consequences of pet overpopulation is the inevitable euthanasia of unadoptable animals,” Watson told the committee.
There are days and events in one’s life that simply cannot be erased, nor should they. Such was that day, 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001.
The world remembered in silence at 9:46 AM (CST) in homage to the victims of that tragic event. Sadly many thousands would lose their lives in the wars that followed as a result of 9/11, including no less than 165 Canadians in Afghanistan. We shall remember them.
Following that solemn silence, attention in Canada and the United States will be drawn to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, and understandably so.
The chefs are back in town and they’ve started their own London-inspired catering company.
Michael Robins, co-founder of Sous Sol, and Keegan Misanchuk, former chef de cuisine at Segovia, recently returned home to Winnipeg after several years of cooking in high-profile English kitchens. Their new private catering and pop-up venture, called Two Hands, brings together everything they learned during their culinary exchange and is emblematic of their focus on handmade food done well.
“I was just thinking about cooking,” Robins, 36, says of the inspiration behind the name. “And whether it’s fine dining or anything else, it all starts with your hands… and that’s the thing I love about cooking the most.”
So far, the pair have hosted a handful — pardon the pun — of pop-up events at local breweries and restaurants featuring everything from East London-style bagel sandwiches to Thai barbecue. They’ve also been channelling the British savoury-pie tradition with a recurring event called Proper Pies.
Morgan Modjeski3 minute readWednesday, Sep. 9, 2026
A 41-year-old tenant has been charged with deliberately setting fire to a suite in a subsidized housing complex in North Kildonan this summer.
The Winnipeg Police Service said Wednesday the man had been arrested Tuesday in connection with the July 15 blaze that caused $200,00 damage to an apartment block at 355 Sutton Ave.
No injuries were reported from the fire that forced the building to be evacuated.
The major crimes unit took over the investigation and identified a suspect.
Morgan Modjeski4 minute readYesterday at 5:41 PM CDT
The union for Winnipeg Transit workers is thrilled the city has taken a step toward installing full enclosures to protect drivers from being attacked.
“This will give closure to what the union has been fighting for for over two years, just to get these enclosures to be put in,” said James Van Gerwen, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union 1505. “When I read this, I was ecstatic.”
He had just spoken at a public works committee meeting in which councillors passed a motion that calls for the city to spend $2.75 million on full-shield dividers.
Currently, buses are equipped with partial shields that do not fully protect operators. For example, on Aug. 20, a passenger armed with a hatchet was able to reach around the half-shield and threaten the driver after she became agitated with the slow rate of speed at which the bus was travelling, the union said at the time.
