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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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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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