Fringe fest roundup: Shows deliver art on a shoestring

And, they’re off: hundreds of performers taking to stages across the Main and beyond for the 27th edition of the Montreal Fringe festival, which runs till June 18. It seems apt that one of the first shows out of the gate centres on a man who spent much of his life struggling to make art on a shoestring.
Orson Welles/Shylock (Black Theatre Workshop, 3680 Jeanne-Mance St., $8-$10) is a fast-paced docudrama that borrows from the News on the March sequence of Citizen Kane to chart the rapid ri