
The Ontario Theatre Review: Wonderful Joe By Ross Ronnie Burkett builds worlds from wood, string, and spirit, and his Wonderful Joe is no exception. I’ve been wanting to make Joe’s acqua…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:41AMThe Frontmezzjunkies Interview: The Unauthorized Hallmark(ish) Parody Musical Conducted by Ross It’s beginning to look a lot like a Hallmark(ish) holiday in Toronto—only this time, the s…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:27AMThe Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Prince Faggot By Ross Prince Faggot strides forward, not with a golden crown but an actor’s confession, based on childhood photos seen under a microscope, …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:55AMThe Toronto Theatre Review: Bowtie Productions’ tick, tick…BOOM! at Alumnae Theatre By Ross “The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem. It is not a musical cue. It is not a …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 05:20AMThe Toronto Theatre Review: Soulpepper’s The Comeuppance and Icarus Theatre’s DNA By Ross Death has been lurking on the edges of Toronto’s stages lately, threatening and messing with t…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:20AM“Prepare to be gooped,” we are told, wisely, as we slide onto the slick with absurdity slopes at the SoHo Playhouse, where Gwyneth Goes Skiing returns for another limited run, gleefully …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AMThe Toronto Theatre Review: The Far Side of the Moon at Bluma Appel Theatre, Toronto By Ross Robert Lepage, who masterfully brought motorcycles and mayhem to his Stratford Festival productio…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 09:38AMThe Toronto Theatre Review: Doc Wuthergloom’s Little Lib’ary of the Damned at the Red Sandcastle Theatre By Ross We’re warned before we even take our seats: doom is imminent. A committ…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 08:52AMA Netflix Film Review: “The Twits“ By Ross “Once upon a time, there were two terrible Twits.” This is the seemingly generic opening of this excitingly non-generic nighttime story tol…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:56AMThe Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Romy & Michele: The Musical By Ross “God, I wish I had your discipline,” she says, as the movie turned musical opens with a flash of colour, a flurry…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:23AMThe Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame By Ross He stands, staring, questioning the room and, in a way, his own existence. Each movement is deliberate, one halting step a…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:03AMThe Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Bat Boy: The Musical By Ross The night was Halloween, and the theatre was primed for chaos. And as the storm rolled in across the stage at New York City Cent…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:41AMThe Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Lincoln Center Theater’s Kyoto By Ross “The times you are living in are fucking awful.” The statement drops early and direct in Kyoto, echoing through …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 10:31PMA Front Mezz Interview: Mark Shanahan Discusses the Westport Country Playhouse If running a theater is anything like hosting a dinner party, Mark Shanahan has found himself presiding over th…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:01AMThe Broadway Theatre Review: Ragtime By Ross An upright piano still stands silently in a pool of light, waiting to unleash the epic heartbeat of Ragtime. A young boy approaches, tentative bu…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 11:00AMA Companion Piece to the Frontmezzjunkie’s Review of Broadway’s Ragtime Before I share my own review of Ragtime’s majestic Broadway transfer, I wanted to include a piece written by my …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:51AMThe 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 hi…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 08:58AMThe 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 th…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 08:25AMThe 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 mi…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:43AMThe 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 ab…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 08:22AMThe 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 yea…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 10:00PMThe 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; brigh…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:32AMThe 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 …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:40AMThe 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, Whi…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:15AMThe 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;…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:00AMThe 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 …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:31AMThe 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) talk…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:02AMThe 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…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 05:29AMThe 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…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:18AMThe 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 …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:26AMThe 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 Festiv…
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