The Shaw Festival Review: Tim Carroll’s “Heartbreak House” gives Shaw’s enormous ideas plenty of room to talk, but not always somewhere to land By Ross “Let’s begin,” is the si…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: From Paranormal Activity to Much Ado About Nothing, the Broadway play season is filling up with stars, classics, new work, and plenty of reasons to celebrate By Ros…
The Stratford Festival Review: Antoni Cimolino brings the love, jealousy, and buried hurt of Eduardo De Filippo’s Neapolitan family drama to the table By Ross Watching a family argue when …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Part two of my TIFF planning adventure, where the tickets are purchased, the press screenings are scheduled, and there are still far too many films I want to see By…
The Stratford Festival Review: Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman turns biblical translation into a witty theatrical debate about power, history and interpretation By Ross What a fascinating project …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Five Shaw Festival productions have me returning to familiar stories, revisiting old theatrical obsessions, and looking ahead to something entirely new By Ross Once…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Jovanni Sy’s Stratford comedy invites us to feast on the lives of the rich, then asks us to see who prepared the meal By Ross I have always had a weakness for a t…
The Frontmezzjunkies Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s epic voyage has the spectacle, but never quite finds the emotional shore By Ross As I prepare to see more films than I can possibly im…
A review of “The Real Ivanov“, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play, Ivanov, by Laura Strausfeld By Antonio I love Chekhov…but Chekhov is hard. I had the incredible luck to study w…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: From Paddington to Prince, Rebels to Rhinestones, the next Broadway season is becoming wonderfully impossible to resist By Ross Just when I finally convince myself …
Frontmezzjunkies reports on some strategic spreadsheet scheduling for TIFF51 By Ross Every year, usually between the first announcement of the TIFF lineup and the release of the screening sc…
A review of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Delacorte Theater. By Antonio “A sad tale’s best fo…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Back on the Stratfest Bus for a third round of opening nights By Ross It’s that time again, late into the summer when I make my highly anticipated journey back. T…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Broadway, the West End and London’s National Theatre are bringing live theatre to movie screens, opening the door to a whole new theatrical afterlife. By Ross A c…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: At the Meighen Forum, Stratford’s productions become jumping-off points for conversations about theatre, history, literature and the ideas behind the plays By Ros…
An Off-Broadway review of Wendy Wasserstein’s “An American Daughter,” produced by La Femme Theatre Productions at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center. By An…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Fresh from her triumphant turn as Judy Garland, Jinkx Monsoon returns to the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in the West End’s wildest comedy By Ross Not every casting …
An Off-Broadway review of “Hungry Women” By Melissa Maney, produced by Black Watch Theatre at Soho Playhouse. By Antonio Imagine a world without men. We begin in Massachusetts during the…
The Toronto SummerWorks Review: Blood Brothers makes Shakespeare’s brotherhood physical, intimate and dangerous By Ross I have rarely felt quite so physically aware of my own body in a the…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Paranormal Activity begins Broadway previews tonight, and I’m already reconsidering my bravery By Ross I’m not sure I would say that I love being scared, even i…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Marcus Merasty uses poetry, movement, sound and a green chalkboard to explore Indigenous identity, memory and what cannot be erased By Ross I am still trying to dec…
The Toronto SummerWorks Review: Ping-Hsiang Wang turns karaoke, digital archives, and a failing memory into a raw search for the person he used to be By Ross I have absolutely no idea where …
An Off-Broadway review: “The Saviors” By Bubba Weiler at Atlantic Theater Company By Antonio As I entered the Atlantic Theater Company, I was first struck by the fact that this old churc…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The TIFF51schedule is finally here, and Andrew Scott and Hudson Williams may finally get me into an In Conversation With… I have my press pass firmly in hand, a T…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of my TIFF51 odyssey arrive just as the Festival prepares to become wonderfully overwhelming By Ross Every year there comes a moment when TIF…