546 stories from front mezz junkies
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Other at Greenwich House Theater By Ross When Ari'el Stachel won his Tony Award for The Band's Visit, a show that I loved with all my heart (including his sw…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Gwyneth Goes Skiing at the Soho Playhouse NYC By Ross "Prepare to be gooped," we are told, wisely, as we slide onto the slick with absurdity slopes at the So…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Atlantic Theater Company's Let's Love By Ross A bar with two seats and a piano sit on a bare stage, promising intimacy but lacking the warmth that one might …
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Grove House Productions' Not Ready for Prime Time By Ross At the Newman Mills Theater, a comedy legend is retold with little comic spark, and for a play abou…
The Broadway Theatre Review: Liberation on Broadway By Ross When I first experienced the glory of Bess Wohl's extraordinary Liberation at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre earlier this year, I…
The TIFF Film Review: Philippe Falardeau's "Lovely Day" and Mathieu Denis's "The Cost of Heaven" By Ross There's a particular kind of Canadian film that sneaks up on you; bright and welcomin…
The Frontmezzjunkies Interview with George Reinblatt & Suzy Wilde, the creatives behind Predictable Holiday Rom-Com: The Musical By Ross Just in time for twinkling lights and peppermint …
The Toronto Theatre Review: "Tales of the Damned" at the Campbell House By Ross It's that time of year again, when the ghosts and ghouls come out and play, and following tradition, White Mil…
The TIFF Film Review: Alex Winter's "Adulthood" & Andy Hines's "Little Lorraine" By Ross Two solid commercial films were presented at the Toronto International Film Festival; one at a bi…
The Tiff Film Review: Farnoosh Samadi's "Between Dreams and Hope" / "Miane Roya Va Omid" By Ross Some films move us by their beauty, and others by their bravery. "Between Dreams and Hope" / …
The Dublin Theatre Festival Review: The Boy at Abbey Theatre By Ross There's something ever so Greek and tragic in the air lately, as I wrote just yesterday, and I'm not (this time) talking …
The Stratford Theatre Review: Spontaneous Theatre's Goblin:Oedipus By Ross It was exactly as expected, the night I arrived at Stratford Festival's Studio Theatre for the opening night of Gob…
The Ontario Theatre Review: Grand Theatre London's The Play That Goes Wrong By Ross It's a rare and joyful kind of déjà vu to see a show you've followed from its raucous big pratfall beg…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Gregory Prest's Bremen Town By Ross There's a quiet magic that shimmers through the fascinating Bremen Town at Tarragon Theatre, brought forth into the light by a…
The Dublin Theatre Festival Review: Poor By Ross It's hard to describe the special kind of energy that surges through my body as I make my way to my first show at the Dublin Theatre Festival…
The TIFF Film Review: Nia DaCosta's "Hedda" & Arnaud Desplechin's "Two Pianos" By Ross At this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I found myself watching two films that seemed, …
The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Tom Alper's The Pitch By Acton "What are we selling again?" asks Tom (Tom Alper) after a dizzying, disorienting orientation in the new workplace comedy…
The TIFF Film Review: Peak Everything By Ross "I wish I understood the world better," he says, adding, "It became so complicated." It's an idea that is so true and so deeply ingrained in thi…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Cats: The Jellicle Ball Returns to Broadway Get ready, jaded theatre lovers " Cats: The Jellicle Ball is making its way to Broadway, and yes, I'm both excited, but …
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: MCC's Caroline By Ross Suitcases, Tylenol, and pancakes in a corner booth of a diner outside of Cleveland " that's how MCC's Caroline begins. New clothes and…
The Broadway Theatre Review: Waiting for Godot by Ross I've seen the pictures. Of the curtain calls and the production stills. But nothing prepared me for the awesome spectacle of that massi…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Schmigadoon! The Musical is Coming to Broadway With something a little meta and marvelous over that foggy bridge, Schmigadoon! The Musical, based on the clever and …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Roald Dahl Play Giant Will Bow on Broadway Starring John Lithgow by Ross There's a certain theatrical thrill in seeing John Lithgow step back onto a Broadway st…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Streaming Series "Amadeus" Arrives This Year Frontmezzjunkies is positively vibrating with excitement over the news about Peter Shaffer's Amadeus " that decaden…
The TIFF Film Review: A Private Life By Ross Jodie Foster delivers a captivating performance of rare precision, vulnerability, and grace in "A Private Life", a French-language drama that exa…