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.
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
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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.
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
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Six-year-old Layla Allen, her mom Cher Allan and dad Tod Allen spend the day hanging out in Old Market Square watching performances and playing games.
Reb Lazar Wolf (Dov Mickelson) marched down Selkirk Avenue last Friday afternoon to collect sustenance for his Fiddler on the Roof castmates, who’ve spent the past two weeks rehearsing at the Ukrainian National Federation Hall.
“Rugelach?” Mickelson offered after making a quick stop for a bag of sweet pastries at the 89-year-old Gunn’s Bakery, following in the footsteps of his parents’ and grandparents’ generations, those Jews who sought refuge in this neighbourhood after the world they once knew in Eastern Europe was obliterated by continental campaigns of anti-semitism which ultimately led to the Holocaust.
The pre- and post-war focal point of Winnipeg’s Jewish community, the North End became for thousands of refugees and immigrants a stand-in for shtetls — the small, yet sprawling communities that existed under tenuous and ever-threatened autonomy as satellite communities across the Pale of Settlement, the region within the Russian Empire where Jewish people were allowed to reside.
Under the rule of the Tsar — pheh — opportunity was scarce and any expression of Jewish joy or celebration — a bar mitzvah morning, a wedding night or a bris for a newborn boy — could occasion brutal suppression by either the ruling class or by the villagers at the gate.
Carol Sanders and Erik Pindera6 minute readUpdated: 5:58 PM CDT
The Manitoba Labour Board has cut short a strike by 350 lab workers employed by Dynacare who administer blood and urine tests for patients in Winnipeg, Brandon and surrounding communities.
The board ruled late Tuesday afternoon that the workers, who hit the picket line at 6 a.m., must return to work Wednesday.
Jason Linklater, president of their union, the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, slammed the board’s decision.
“The Manitoba Labour Board is doing exactly what the government asked them to do: they are taking away our members’ right to fight for fairness,” he said in a statement.
Maggie Macintosh4 minute readYesterday at 5:22 PM CDT
Instead of apples, Emma Caronte is handing out lesson plans on local food history to Manitoba teachers this back-to-school season.
The undergraduate researcher spent her summer break creating a social studies unit that investigates food guide evolution, marketing tactics and how honey dill sauce became a pantry staple on the Prairies.
“I want students to develop a greater interest in food and what outside influences affect their choices and what we consider ‘healthy,’” said Caronte, a final-year education student at the University of Manitoba.
She is advertising her 112-page project as a user-friendly resource for classroom teachers and “a fun sub plan” targeted at Grade 6, 7, 8 and 9.
The parents of a 23-year-old southwestern Manitoba woman who died after receiving a local anesthetic during a wisdom tooth extraction say they are in the dark about the investigation into their daughter’s death.
Dulaney and Victoria Blatz say the Manitoba Dental Association has been unwilling to give them information about the probe into their daughter’s death, saying the self-governing regulatory body must be more transparent with the public.
“We have pushed through various channels trying to get information, but it’s nothing but stalling and sidelining,” Victoria said Friday. “This has crashed our world to pieces and we just want answers.”
Virginia Blatz went to Boundary Trails Dental Centre in Morden on Nov. 27, 2024, to have her wisdom teeth removed, but never returned home.
When Dylan DeMelo stepped into the dressing room and saw his name and number on the back of a Team Canada namebar, that’s when things really sunk in.
The Winnipeg Jets defenceman was already excited about the prospect of suiting up for his country in an international event for the first time of his career at the age of 33 before he even got overseas for the 2026 IIHF men’s world hockey championship, but the experience definitely lived up to the advance billing.
“It was kind of like a dream come true feeling,” DeMelo said on Tuesday after the Jets held a captain’s skate. “I never had that chance ever. For me, it was super cool.
“It was an amazing experience and it just gave you a boost of confidence coming into the year.”
Maggie Macintosh5 minute readYesterday at 10:02 AM CDT
Independent schools are preparing to welcome a record number of students as more families pay for faith-based instruction and secular alternatives.
The overwhelming majority of Manitoba children — 200,000 — are starting in the public school system this fall. Since 2000, the percentage of students enrolled elsewhere — in homeschools, funded and non-funded independent schools — has nearly doubled, to 12 per cent from seven per cent.
“If money was no object, we could fill dozens and dozens more classrooms with the demand for independent education,” said Andrew Micklefield, executive director of the Manitoba Federation of Independent Schools, who is a former Tory government house leader.
The King’s School, Dasmesh School, Springs Christian Academy, Beautiful Saviour Lutheran School, Steinbach Christian School and IQRA Islamic School have all either upscaled at some point over the last five years or are actively in the process of expanding their footprint.
