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Friday, July 18, 2025

The New 2025/26 Season at Factory Theatre Toronto is Here! by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Factory Theatre Toronto Announces their 2025/26 Season This season, Factory Theatre transports our audiences with projects and artists who use their expansive crea…

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Music Box Films’ “Familiar Touch” Registers Compassionately as Memory Fades Away Non-Melodramatically by Ross

The Film Review: Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch” By Ross Ruth, played with tenderness and soul by the incredible Kathleen Chalfant (59E59/Acting Company’s A Woman of the World), …

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Shaw Festival Delivers Dear Liar – a Delightful Love Dance filled with Care and Sarcasm by Ross

It seemed like the most fitting formulation for the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario to present Dear Liar, a play, written with care by Jerome Kilty (Look Away), that centers on…

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Congrats to the 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival Success Story The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival Returns $577,500 to Artists Toronto Fringe is proud to announce that t…

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Shaw Festival’s Effervescent & Magnifique “La Vie en Rose” Flies Us Joyfully to the City of Lights by Ross

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: La Vie en Rose at the Spiegeltent By Ross In a twinkling whirl of rotating “La La La“-clapping and spinning (and cartwheeling!), a divine tribute to the…

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Shaw Festival Faithfully Explodes Strong and Smart with Shaw’s Own “Major Barbara” by Ross

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: Shaw’s Major Barbara By Ross A song of salvation draws us into the Shaw Festival‘s solid and engaging production of Major Barbara, written by the festiv…

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Stratford Festival Delivers the Hope and Salvation of Forgiveness by Ross

With a tender ear for the pain of imprisonment and racial profiling, balanced with the virtue of love and Forgiveness, from any and all angles, the adaptation of the Canada Reads Award-winni…

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The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival Announces the 2025 Award Recipients by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival Award Recipients The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival Announces 2025 Award Recipients  Toronto Fringe is proud to announce th…

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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Tony Award Winner J Harrison Ghee to Star in Roger Q. Mason’s “Night Cities” by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Tony Award Winner J Harrison Ghee to Star in Roger Q. Mason’s Night Cities – Monday, July 14 at Cherry Grove, Fire Island J Harrison Ghee (Tony, Drama Desk, …

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Anything Goes Kicks its Heels Sky High at the Shaw Festival by Ross

All aboard the MS Americana, as the Shaw Festival‘s effervescent production of Anything Goes sets sail for a spirited crossing filled to overflowing with flavorfully festive music and lyri…

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Friday, July 11, 2025

“Leaping Lizards!” Stratford Festival Extends Four Fantastic and Celebrated Productions by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Stratford Festival Extends Annie, Macbeth, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Anne of Green Gables July 2025… The Stratford Festival announces the extension of its …

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Acton Says: Color Me Stoked: “Heathers the Musical” at New World Stages by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Heathers the Musical at New World Stages By Acton Oh, the humanity. That’s what was missing when I first saw Heathers the Musical Off-Broadway in 2014…

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Shaw Festival’s “The Roll of Shaw” is a Rousing Adventure, Improvised by a Toss of the 20-Sided Dice by Ross

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: The Roll of Shaw: Through the Wardrobe By Ross Inspired by the touching tale of what author C.S. Lewis once said to a young fan who asked if there were any …

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

A Therapeutic Day at the Toronto Fringe Festival with “Jack Goes To Therapy,” “Puzzles,” and “Mathew’s Big Broadway Bash” by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: 3 Shows in a Day at the Toronto Fringe By Ross Little did I know that my one and only day at the Toronto Fringe Festival would be so filled to overflowing with th…

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Monday, July 7, 2025

Harold Pinter’s “Old Times” Comes to Soulpepper Toronto by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Harold Pinter’s OLD TIMES comes to Soulpepper Theatre SOULPEPPER THEATRE PRESENTSOLD TIMESWritten by Harold PinterDirected by Peter Pasyk Featuring Anita Majumdar…

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Sunday, July 6, 2025

“The Life of Chuck” Affirms Life Simply in the Rear View Mirror, Without Leaving Too Much of an Imprint by Ross

The Film Review: “The Life of Chuck“ By Ross We start, at what appears to be a latter chapter, with the tease of going backwards so we can understand the world that we have going forward…

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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Vineyard Theatre Sheds Light on Their 2025–26 Season with Two World Premiere Plays by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: VINEYARD THEATRE’s Two World Premieres Light Up The 2025–26 Season WORLD PREMIERETHE BURNING CAULDRON OF FIERY FIRE WRITTEN BY ANNE WASHBURN DIRECTED BY STEVE…

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Friday, July 4, 2025

The World Premiere of “Rainbow on Mars”  by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Rainbow on Mars Premiere The World Premiere of Rainbow on Mars by Devon Healey. Outside the March Theatre, Canada’s leading immersive theatre company is teaming…

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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Frontmezzjunkies is Heading to Hamilton’s Biggest, Boldest 12-Day Fringe Arts Festival by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Hamilton Fringe Festival Celebrates 21st year with New Festival Hub Hamilton’s Biggest, Boldest 12-Day Arts FestivalJuly 16-27, 2025 When I heard about the Hamil…

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Emma Donoghue’s Sweet and Tragic “The Wind Coming Over the Sea” Docks Solidly with Care at the Blyth Festival by Ross

The Ontario Theatre Review: Blyth Festival’s The Wind Coming Over the Sea By Ross He sits, our musical bearer of time and place; a narrator of sorts, in the warm glow of memories, playing …

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

And The Winners of the 2025 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Are… by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: TAPA announces 2025 Dora Mavor Moore Award Recipients Productions with Multiple Award Wins Include: Mahabharata, Last Landscape, Mukashi, Mukashi (Once Upon a Tim…

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The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival Comes At You July 2 – 13, 2025 by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival is about to begin: July 2 – 13, 2025 (Toronto, Ontario): The 37th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival is about to get underway…

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Monday, June 30, 2025

TPM’s New 2025/2026 Season Of Exceptional Canadian Voices And Innovative Theatre by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: THEATRE PASSE MURAILLE ANNOUNCES 2025/2026 SEASON TORONTO (June 27, 2025) — Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) is thrilled to unveil its 2025/2026 season, a captivating…

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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Stratford Festival’s Delicious and Delightful “Sense and Sensibility” is Just What The Doctor Ordered by Ross

The Stratford Festival Theatre Review: Sense and Sensibility By Ross This is my personal, somewhat roundabout entry into my review of the wonderfully festive and well-produced rendition by t…

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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Announces its Bold 2025/26 Season by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Announces 2025 – 26 Season  These are the things we longed for.   June 2025 (Toronto, ON): ted witzel, Artistic Director of Buddie…

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Friday, June 27, 2025

NYCC Delivers Us Our Bat Boy by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: New York City Center announces Casting for Bat Boy June 2025 (NEW YORK, NY) – NEW YORK CITY CENTER announced that Taylor Trensch, who made his Broadway debut as…

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Coal Mine Theatre Toronto Announces Exciting 11th Season by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Coal Mine Theatre Unveils Their 11th Season COAL MINE THEATRE UNVEILS 11TH SEASON OF FOUR UNMISSABLE PRODUCTIONS; BRINGING TOGETHER THREE BUZZY CONTEMPORARY HITS &…

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

BACK TO THE FUTURE | FORWARD TO THE PAST Marking 35 Years Of Radical Art, Experimentation, And Creative Collaboration by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: SUMMERWORKS PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2025 BACK TO THE FUTURE | FORWARD TO THE PASTMARKING 35 YEARS OF RADICAL ARTISTRY, EXPERIMENTATION, AND CREATIVE COLLABORATION AUGU…

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Acton says: Stirred by Shakespeare in “Love You More” at the Tank by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Love You More By Acton This has to be a mistake. Entering Love You More (writer Nikhil Mahapatra, director N // Nicky Maggio) at The Tank, we’re handed a …

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Monday, June 23, 2025

Luminato Festival Spontaneously Underwhelms by “An Oak Tree” by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree By Ross With a “good luck, you’re going to be great,” the acclaimed English theatre creator Tim Crouch (My Arm; ENGLAND) ushers …

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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Shaw Festival’s “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” Shrugs Away the Magic by Ross

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe By Ross Four children play before being joined by many more. Jumping rope before the bomb sirens ring out, when overco…

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