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…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Where Hockey, Horniness, and Heart Collide in Musical Parody By Ross How many Susans does it take to get two hockey players to make out? Heated Rivalry: The …
An Off-Broadway review of “Broad Strokes” By Cat Cohen at The Lucille Lortel Theater By Antonio My first NYC acting teacher once asked us, “Why are you an actor?” As we came up with …
The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: Adrienne Kennedy’s “Ohio State Murders” confronts the violence buried beneath memory, literature, and institutional power By Ross When Suzanne Alexand…
A Frontmezzjunkies Interview: Janelle Cooper and the Woman Behind the Fairy Tale By Ross Cinderella is one of those stories we think we know before the curtain even rises. The wicked stepmot…
The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: “The Wind in the Willows” invites us to join in and simply mess about By Ross The sound of birds and crickets singing their riverbank songs is the first…