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…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: September L. Davis is ready to apologize, whether Broadway is ready to forgive her or not By Ross I have always had a soft spot for a theatrical apology that arrive…
The Shaw Festival Review: Tim Carroll’s “Amadeus” lets Mozart’s music soar while Salieri’s great confession struggles to ignite By Ross “Pardon your assassin,” the aging Salier…
The 51st Toronto International Film Festival is bringing the party to King Street West, and my friend from New York is about to discover what happens when TIFF spills out of the theatres By …
The Shaw Festival Review: Tim Carroll’s “Heartbreak House” gives Shaw’s enormous ideas plenty of room to talk, but not always somewhere to land By Ross “Let’s begin,” is the si…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: From Paranormal Activity to Much Ado About Nothing, the Broadway play season is filling up with stars, classics, new work, and plenty of reasons to celebrate By Ros…
The Stratford Festival Review: Antoni Cimolino brings the love, jealousy, and buried hurt of Eduardo De Filippo’s Neapolitan family drama to the table By Ross Watching a family argue when …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Part two of my TIFF planning adventure, where the tickets are purchased, the press screenings are scheduled, and there are still far too many films I want to see By…
The Stratford Festival Review: Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman turns biblical translation into a witty theatrical debate about power, history and interpretation By Ross What a fascinating project …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Five Shaw Festival productions have me returning to familiar stories, revisiting old theatrical obsessions, and looking ahead to something entirely new By Ross Once…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Jovanni Sy’s Stratford comedy invites us to feast on the lives of the rich, then asks us to see who prepared the meal By Ross I have always had a weakness for a t…
The Frontmezzjunkies Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s epic voyage has the spectacle, but never quite finds the emotional shore By Ross As I prepare to see more films than I can possibly im…
A review of “The Real Ivanov“, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play, Ivanov, by Laura Strausfeld By Antonio I love Chekhov…but Chekhov is hard. I had the incredible luck to study w…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: From Paddington to Prince, Rebels to Rhinestones, the next Broadway season is becoming wonderfully impossible to resist By Ross Just when I finally convince myself …
Frontmezzjunkies reports on some strategic spreadsheet scheduling for TIFF51 By Ross Every year, usually between the first announcement of the TIFF lineup and the release of the screening sc…
A review of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Delacorte Theater. By Antonio “A sad tale’s best fo…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Back on the Stratfest Bus for a third round of opening nights By Ross It’s that time again, late into the summer when I make my highly anticipated journey back. T…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Broadway, the West End and London’s National Theatre are bringing live theatre to movie screens, opening the door to a whole new theatrical afterlife. By Ross A c…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: At the Meighen Forum, Stratford’s productions become jumping-off points for conversations about theatre, history, literature and the ideas behind the plays By Ros…
An Off-Broadway review of Wendy Wasserstein’s “An American Daughter,” produced by La Femme Theatre Productions at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center. By An…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Fresh from her triumphant turn as Judy Garland, Jinkx Monsoon returns to the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in the West End’s wildest comedy By Ross Not every casting …
An Off-Broadway review of “Hungry Women” By Melissa Maney, produced by Black Watch Theatre at Soho Playhouse. By Antonio Imagine a world without men. We begin in Massachusetts during the…
The Toronto SummerWorks Review: Blood Brothers makes Shakespeare’s brotherhood physical, intimate and dangerous By Ross I have rarely felt quite so physically aware of my own body in a the…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Paranormal Activity begins Broadway previews tonight, and I’m already reconsidering my bravery By Ross I’m not sure I would say that I love being scared, even i…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Marcus Merasty uses poetry, movement, sound and a green chalkboard to explore Indigenous identity, memory and what cannot be erased By Ross I am still trying to dec…