
The 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…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:15AMThe 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…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:33AMThe 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 …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:59PMThe 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 ingrai…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 05:52AMFrontmezzjunkies 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, …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:05AMSuitcases, Tylenol, and pancakes in a corner booth of a diner outside of Cleveland — that’s how MCC’s Caroline begins. New clothes and a new name are what’s asked for by the newly an…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:18AMThe 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 clo…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:00AMFrontmezzjunkies is positively vibrating with excitement over the news about Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus — that decadent, delicious battle of genius versus mediocrity. The new limited series…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AMThe 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 mas…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 06:19AMFrontmezzjunkies 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 …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 05:30PMFrontmezzjunkies 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 …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:27AMFrontmezzjunkies reports: The Streaming Series “Amadeus” Arrives This Year Frontmezzjunkies is positively vibrating with excitement over the news about Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus — that…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 10:11PMThe 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…
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