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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

TIFF’s 2025 Centerpiece Programming Announced by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: #TIFF50 PROGRAMMING ALERT TIFF’s 2025 Centrepiece programme celebrates the best of international cinema Presenting works from celebrated filmmakers, including Mat…

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The Hamilton Fringe Dynamically Finds Perfect Patience inside Breadbox Theatre’s “Waiting For* Godot *Waiting For, Waiting For” by Ross

The Hamilton Fringe Theatre Review: Breadbox Theatre’s Waiting For* Godot *Waiting For, Waiting For By Ross The stage manager arrives to set the stage and deliver a few coffees to a direct…

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Monday, August 4, 2025

Menier Chocolate Factory’s The Producers Transfers Triumphantly To the West End by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Menier Chocolate Factory’s revival of The Producers transfers to the West End By Ross The highly praised London revival of Mel Brooks’ legendary musical The Pro…

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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Vivid Voices and Fierce Truths: Two Standout Hamilton Fringe Solo Shows – Sex Goddess + Horseface by Ross

The Hamilton Fringe Theatre Review: Sex Goddess + Horseface By Ross Two solo shows hit hard and true at the Hamilton Fringe when I was there last weekend, inviting us all into their individu…

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Saturday, August 2, 2025

The Hamilton Fringe Festival #5 – Crane Girl + A Question of Character -Exploring Dark, Painful Shadows in the Light of HIgh-up Modern Storytelling by Ross

The Hamilton Fringe Theatre Review: Crane Girl + A Question of Character By Ross Continuing with my time at the Hamilton Fringe Festival, two plays work their interpersonal magic on me with …

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Friday, August 1, 2025

The Hamilton Fringe Festival #1 – A Deviously Dark and Smart Beginning with “All the World’s a Cage” and “A Gentleman’s Murder” by Ross

The Hamilton Fringe Theatre Review: All the World’s A Cage + A Gentleman’s Murder By Ross The true beauty of going to the fringe, any fringe festival, really, is the opportunity to see a…

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The Phenomenal “Liberation” Comes to Broadway by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: RT’s Liberation Comes to Broadway  FOLLOWING ACCLAIMED OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE, LIBERATION – A NEW PLAY BY BESS WOHL, DIRECTED BY WHITNEY WHITE, WILL OPEN ON BRO…

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

#TIFF50 Announces Their First Four Tribute Award honourees for 2025 by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: TIFF announces first four Tribute Award honourees  The first four Tribute Award honourees were shared today by TIFF: Guillermo del Toro, Jodie Foster, HIKARI, and …

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Best of Fringe #1: Mixtape Projects’ “Iris (says goodbye)” – An Unforgettable Flight of Fancy at the Fringe by Ross

The Toronto Fringe Theatre Review: Mixtape Projects’ Iris (says goodbye) By Ross It’s all about endings, and a possible chosen beginning, spun out with an astounding, authentic clarity a…

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Best of Fringe #5: “My Pet Lizard, Liz: The Shakespearean Existential Crisis that Led to His Ultimate Demise” – Gaz, Shakespeare, and a Puppet� by Ross

The Toronto Fringe Theatre Review: The Lost Scribe Collective’s My Pet Lizard, Liz: The Shakespearean Existential Crisis that Led to His Ultimate Demise By Ross “Puppets and adult themes…

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

The Rogue Theater Festival Returns by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The 7th Annual Rogue Theater Festival to Present 37 New Productions August 4 – 10 at The Flea Theatre & Streaming On Demand Rogue Theatre Festival (RTF) re…

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Monday, July 28, 2025

Best of Fringe #4: Mom & Pop Productions’ “Things My Dad Kept” – A Heartfelt Paper Trail of Love by Ross

The Toronto Fringe Theatre Review: Mom & Pop Productions’ Things My Dad Kept By Ross Ronit Rubinstein, the creator and performer behind Things My Dad Kept, sitting solidly inside the M…

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Sunday, July 27, 2025

THE WAIT IS ALMOST OVER! Free Shakespeare in the Park Returns! Finally! by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: FREE SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK’S TWELFTH NIGHT Returns! The countdown is ON for the ultimate outdoor summer extravaganza: Twelfth Night kicks off at Free Shakespear…

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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Best of Fringe #2: “David Lynch’s Seinfeld” – A Surreal Bite of Comedy Brilliantly Between a D’oh and a Dilemma by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Best of the Fringe’s David Lynch’s Seinfeld Best of Fringe It all begins, as one would expect, around a stand-up routine centered around the hole within a don…

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Friday, July 25, 2025

Next Stop (or 10): The Hamilton Fringe by Ross

The Hamilton Fringe Experience: The 10 Shows I Am On My Way to See at the Hamilton Fringe Festival By Ross I’m beyond thrilled for my weekend adventure in the vibrant city of Hamilton, Ont…

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Atlantic Theater Announces New 2025|2026 Season by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The New 2025|2026 Season at Atlantic Theater Essential human stories. Featuring four new plays by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Off-Broadway debuts by Jake Brasc…

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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Shaw Festival asks: “May I Have the Pleasure?” The Answer is “Most Definitely” by Ross

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: May I Have the Pleasure? By Ross “Why is the urge to dance so inside us?” asks one of the four standing before us. There’s music everywhere, all aroun…

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Canadian Stage’s “Romeo and Juliet” Shines like a Dream in High Park due to the Trembling and Cracking of its Strong Leads by Ross

I am not “wedded to calamity,” nor am I a purist by any means, especially when it comes to Shakespeare and the classics. Not to get too off track, but a perfect example of this is Jamie …

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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Best of Fringe #3: The Playful “Playground”: A New (and Wonderful) Family Musical by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Best of the Fringe’s Playground By Ross As I settled myself in at the Meridian Arts Center in North York, Toronto, I was acutely aware that I was surrounded by …

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Canadian Stage’s “Romeo and Juliet” Shines like a Dream in High Park due to the Trembling and Cracking of its Strong Leads by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Canadian Stage’s Romeo and Juliet in High Park By Ross I am not “wedded to calamity,” nor am I a purist by any means, especially when it comes to Shakespear…

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Monday, July 21, 2025

The Excitement Builds Around TIFF 50 by Ross

Frontmezzjunkes reports: 11 More Galas and Special Presentations Announced for the 50th Edition of the Toronto International Film Festival The world comes to TIFF: Announcing 11 more Galas a…

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Toronto’s Icarus Theatre Delivers Their First, and Most Ambitious Three-Show Season by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Icarus Theatre’s New Three-Show Season ICARUS THEATRE ANNOUNCES 1ST THREE-SHOW SEASON,BRINGING TOGETHER EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED ARTISTSTO PRESENT THREE THRILLING…

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Saturday, July 19, 2025

TIFT Brings “The Frogs” and a Tinge of Bardolatry to the Shaw Festival’s Spiegeltent by Ross

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: Talk Is Free Theatre’s The Frogs at the Shaw By Ross After a quick call to patriotic duty, the cast of ever-so-game creatives circle around for a plastic …

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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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