The Players Guild

A Gentleman’s Murder. A would-be-groom is waylaid with a dark prophecy that threatens to disrupt his plans for a happily ever after, unless he can take bloody matters into his (soon to be) bloody hands.

A Very Queer Easter Pageant. Häus of the Holy Spirit presents a drag-infused dramatization of the Bible’s Easter story with a surprise musical twist.

All The World’s A Cage. As cracks form in the story and chaos creeps in, it transforms into a gripping, unsettling exploration of entertainment and the control, abuse, and exploitation of performers for profit.

Minimum. Outrageous comedy about the newly elected Ontario Premier who must live on minimum wage.

Once Upon A Pizzeria. Nonna Maria's pizzas may be the best in town, but that doesn't stop kids at the school from teasing her grandson, Luigi, over its square shape.

Sister Sophia Kicks The Habit. Delves into the revelations of Sister Sophia, an aging Catholic nun in crisis. As she grieves the loss of her best friend Sister Beatrice, she grapples with the realities of her half century of sisterhood in her own restless night of the soul.

Hamilton Theatre

The Damage Done. The same park. The same swirling emotions. Their grown-up kids. A desperate need for help.

Moving In. Weaves together threads of gender politics, performative feminism, and the sometimes elusive line between healthy and toxic relationships.

Ostrich Park. Once in a lifetime play, see the true apex predator, Ostriches, unleashed.

Theatre Aquarius

Bangs, Bobs & Banter: Confessions of a Hairstylist. Nikki, a charismatic hairstylist with a gift for storytelling, invites the audience into her salon, seamlessly shifting between characters and revealing a hilarious mix of sassy, saucy, and scandalous secrets.

Catch Me in the Kitchen Story Adventures. Daring wolves, clever heroes, and twisted fairy tales collide in Catch Me in the Kitchen Story Adventures.

Crane Girl. Follows a woman who walks out of her life and climbs a crane. It explores rage, women's bodies, reproductive rights, and what it means to find your voice in a patriarchal nightmare.

Horseface. A memoir of encounters with men throughout her life: handsy professors, train manspreaders, A-list fondlers, pornography-cataloguing fathers.

The Fruits That Rot in Our Bellies. After agreeing to be a surrogate for their sister, Fimi is haunted by who or what is growing inside them.

The Pole Shebang. Take a behind-the-scenes detour on this journey of a tomboy pole dancer, as she is unexpectedly called up to the biggest stage in the country.

Visiting My Mother And Other Repetition Compulsions. A therapy session, a family dinner, a hospital visit, the unbearable tension of the ordinary.

The Westdale

500 Doubloons. During the Golden Age of Piracy, a pirate paid a woman five hundred doubloons (about $400,000 dollars) to take her clothes off, and nothing more.

Gaumukhi (Cow). An existentialist solo drama that follows a Cow, as she navigates the various identities imposed on her, with the identities she desires.

Hope in Hot Times. “I’m the main character! You’re the villain!” cry the clowns, trying so hard to live with dignity.

Meat Market. Strap in and strap on, you’re about to step into the absurd & raunchy world of gay hookup apps.

Nahanni Gold: A True Canadian Legend. One of the most incredible tales, that of Willie and Frank McLeod, who died prospecting in the Valley in the early 1900s, is told here in hushed tones of dread.

Raccacloon. Raccacloon has been ravaging dumpsters with their raccoon family their whole life, but they lack support in pursuing their true dreams: to perform as a clown.

The Fortune Teller. A knockdown farce that has some clever things to say about youth, love, the Great Beyond, and the Here and Now.

Centre for Talking Arts

Let’s Start A Fake Cult: Nihilism, Narcissism, Hypnotism. All the benefits of cult membership, without the loss of self and other nasty side effects.

Red Hot Cherry Poppin’ Experience. Laugh, learn and let loose at this wildly fun, sex positive comedy show!

Saad Sheikh’s Get It Together. Unabashedly pop music. An evening of catchy hooks, seething lyrics, and dazzling numbers.

The Giant Space Monster That Ate Hamilton in 3-D. Join forces to save Hamilton (and the world) from a monstrous threat

Ringside: Mini Bar

3 Hours, 10 Minutes. Two strangers, one painting. What do they see in it? What do they see in each other?

Brown Noise. Exploring the South Asian-Canadian experience from two very different sides.

Group Prompt. Experimental human-AI collaborative performance: you, performer, and artificial intelligence co-created it.

Hum-Buzz. A mad-dash virtuosic performance about someone—or something—that is in love with you.

Old Girls Gone Rogue: Age Against the Machine. Hilarious take on what it means to live in 2025 (no matter when you started).

Mills Hardware

A Canadian Explains Eurovision to Other Canadians. A love letter to the weirdest, wildest music competition on Earth.

A Question of Character. The clock is ticking when Leni Riefenstahl is visited by an interviewer with more than questions for the infamous filmmaker.

Mind Reader. Every performance is a different journey guided by the unique choices of each individual audience.

Mind The Gaps. Using improv to unpack organization gone wrong, a uniquely intimate performance that finds meaning in the gaps.

Sex Goddess. While sharing her album, Rayna takes her audience on the journey of one long, wild night that changed her life and perspective forever.

The Heterosexuals. A deep-dive into the shocking world of Heterosexuality! THEY WALK AMONG US!

Ugly Privilege. Featuring discussions of autism, social awkwardness, growing up gay in rural Alberta, and the declining sexiness of the Canadian Monarchy.

The Gasworks

Catching a Cheese Pervert. Who's committing lewd public acts with Francis Corp. cheese?

Charon. The ferryman of the River Styx embraces a young, ordinary Daphne as she struggles with her transition from life to death, helping her grasp the universal concepts of fate and fear.

Limb Loss, Love. A personal and hilarious exploration of the life of comedian Dan Hurwitz: a disabled, mixed-race, light-skinned, patrilineally Jewish person.

Mark I. The Gospel of Mark is known to be the oldest written biblical gospel. This amazing story is told with modern language, but in its original form.

The Staircase - Bright Room

Men Love Horsies: The Musical. Just a man singing songs about horses.

Unsolicited: Dood Advice Gone Dad. Hilarious one-woman show exploring the wild, weird, and wonderfully unsolicited advice her dad and others have given her over the years.

What If? Improvising Your Alternate Universe. A new storyteller every show will see their alternate universe right before their very eyes, and completely improvised.

The Staircase - Elaine Mae

Call Me Hutch. Paul Hutcheson is back with his fourth solo comedy at the Hamilton Fringe. Known for his physical style of storytelling and stand-up.

Impatient Inpatient. Three months in hospital. One busted body. Zero chill.
Come for the laughs, stay for the existential crisis!

Liz, A Traumatic Comedy. Might also be about healing from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, through art, friendship, family and defiant hopefulness.

The Staircase - Studio Theatre

A Non Canonical Musical Adventure with Pookamhura: Mistress of B-Roll. A random group of MMO players meets Pookamhura, a gnome rogue inspired by Shakespeare's Puck, as they wait for another player to join them for a dungeon adventure.

Big Chick Energy Presents: Big Chick Lethargy?! The Chicks have lost their ENERGY! What could have stolen it? Capitalism? People? Low iron? An all-consuming bullet journal that reminds you that you’re never going to be perfect?!?!

I’m Actually Right About Everything: A Bisexual Love Story. A hilarious and heartfelt solo show about queerness, friendship, bad boyfriends, and the voice inside that always knew better.

Waiting for* Godot. *Waiting for Waiting for. Waiting. We all do it, but what does it really mean? To wait is to want, to want is to yearn, to yearn is to earn! Waiting. The final fun-tier!