The Opera Review: Verdi’s tragedy pulls me from extravagant parties into a world of love, sacrifice, and heartbreak. By Ross This year I made a plan, or maybe you could call it a challenge…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Nightwood and 1s1 Theatre turn an ancestral home into a Gothic world shaped by patriarchy. By Ross The three women are already there, standing in the shadows, smi…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Paolo Santalucia’s vibrant revival sets the rebellious vitality of its young performers against a world shaped by repression, guilt and shame. by Ross I thought…
The Ontario Theatre Review: At the High School Project, a wildly talented group of young performers discovers just how much fun it can be to find your voice and turn up the volume By Ross �…
The TIFF26 Film Review: Los Javis Turn Buried History Into a Visually Ravishing Queer Epic By Ross A tremor of violence cuts through the opening of La Bola Negra as bodies are blown apart du…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Stratford Festival announces its 2027 season By Ross There is something wonderfully exciting about seeing a new Stratford Festival season arrive in my inbox for the…
The TIFF26 Film Review: Simon Stone’s “Elsinore” Is a Love Letter to Ian Charleson and the Theatre By Ross “Hamlet just walked off the stage.” That announcement ripples through the…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Eleven | Trusting My Gut, Leaving Room for Surprise By Ross “And that’s a wrap,” as they liked to say in that cheeky thank-you video to the TIFF volunteers w…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Ten | The Festival Isn’t Finished With Me Yet By Ross It’s almost a “wrap” as the last few days of TIFF create their own strange energy. The press screenin…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The TIFF Awards Have Been Announced Today, while I was sitting in the theatre watching the magnificently entertaining and engaging “Wild Horse Nine“, TIFF annou…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Nine | Letting the Day Unfold By Ross By the ninth day of TIFF, I have started to just breathe, to understand that the festival has its own rhythm, and sometimes t…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: HOUSE + BODY’s Measure for Measure Returns to Crow’s Theatre By Ross With HOUSE + BODY’s Measure for Measure returning to Crow’s Theatre this month, it brin…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Eight | Seeing What Was Waiting By Ross My eighth day at TIFF began with something I don’t always associate with a film festival: letting other parts of my life …
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Seven | Learning When to Listen By Ross Every once in a while during TIFF, we have a morning when the alarm goes off, and your body immediately begins negotiating …
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Six | Choices, Choices, Choices By Ross This was always going to be a big day. The ultimate test of my TIFF endurance, and the last day of my NYC friend’s visit.…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: “Becoming Hamlet” Searches for Hamlet Inside Shakespeare’s Words By Ross I wanted to believe that Becoming Hamlet could unlock something thrilling abo…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Amy Berryman’s “Walden” Amy Berryman’s “Walden” sends three people into a fragile eco-sanctuary as a dying planet presses in. By Ross With crackling c…
The Frontmezzjunkies Theatre and Film Review: From a cramped Bombay apartment to a 1977 disability rights occupation in San Francisco, two stories make history feel remarkably close. By Ross…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Five | When Performance Gets Personal By Ross Day Five at TIFF hit me with a huge, magnificent emotional brick, and I couldn’t have been more pleased. Maybe yest…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Four | Letting the Movies Lead By Ross I think I got my mojo back. When the alarm went off at 6am, I was up, dressed, and out the door, heading to the John Basse…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Three | Letting One Film Wait By Ross The third day of TIFF began with a decision that felt almost unnatural for someone who has come to the festival wanting to se…
The Off-Off-Broadway Theatre Review: A Radical “Seagull” Takes Flight in Brooklyn By Ross “Do what you love, or die trying.” Walking into Twenty Somethings Productions and Riot Act�…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day Two | Fingers Crossed By Ross I really can’t believe I made it to my first planned press screening. After yesterday’s sudden detour from TIFF to home, with m…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: L.B. Browne’s “Safe House” Traps a Family Inside Its Own Fears By Ross Nobody has made this place particularly warm or welcoming is my first reaction w…
The TIFF51 Experience: Day One | Trusting My First Instinct By Ross The first film of TIFF always feels like a little leap of faith. I know the names, I know the descriptions, I know which f…