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
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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
Winnipeg police are investigating a “serious incident” in which people were injured following a police pursuit near Broadway and Young Street Friday afternoon.
Police said the scene would remain secured as officers investigate. No details about the number or severity of injuries were released.
Broadway was closed between Furby and Young streets until further notice and motorists were asked to avoid the area.
Shaelyn Desmarais McLeod, whose car sustained minor damage, said she witnessed the end of the police pursuit.
It’s a question Karrie Blackburn likes to ask people to encourage thought and awareness about how we view waste.
As Winnipeg celebrates one year of success with community food waste drop-off sites, Blackburn — sales and customer service lead with Compost Winnipeg — remains passionate about all things related to composting and saving landfills from more methane-producing waste.
“We are incredibly proud of our community for embracing the food waste drop-off program,” she said. “This program diverts waste, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and fosters a culture of sustainability in our city. The results speak for themselves.”
Reviewed by Donald Benham5 minute readSaturday, Jun. 27, 2026
When Ray Robertson uses public transit, he realizes how different he is from the vast majority of modern human beings.
“Observe a bus full of near-comatose, infantilized commuters — heads lowered, fingers busy, eyes glazed,” Robertson writes in The Right to be Wrong.
“I don’t own a cellphone, perhaps my proudest act of social disobedience,” he declares.
Robertson has a large and varied body of written work, including nine novels, seven collections of non-fiction, a book of poetry and a book that inspired a film script. Born and raised in Chatham, he now lives in Toronto.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDEN — Hundreds of people on the American side of the International Peace Garden, which straddles the Manitoba-North Dakota border, bowed their heads and observed a moment of silence Friday on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Firefighters, politicians, military members and aviation officials were part of the ceremony at the garden, held to remember and honour the nearly 3,000 people who died and the heroic acts of first responders.
“Twenty-five years have passed, but the significance of that day has not diminished,” said Dave Schellenberg, the vice-chair of the Manitoba Association of Fire Chiefs.
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes and flew two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., while a fourth one that was targeted to hit the White House crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks were orchestrated by al-Qaida.
The University of Manitoba graduated 510 Indigenous students on Saturday, the largest cohort in its history.
Comparatively, in 2011 — the year I started teaching at the U of M — there were 158.
That’s more than three times as many and one of the highest numbers in North America (University of Saskatchewan hasn’t released this year's numbers yet but it is often slightly higher than the U of M).
This means we will have more Indigenous professionals entering the workforce than ever before, and its a number that has been increasing every year for a decade.
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