The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: A timely Expressionist revival centered on work, worth, and repetition by The New Group By Ross That clanking mechanical sound takes over the room before any…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Paolo Santalucia's inaugural season blends classics, premieres, and Canadian voices into a year of theatre that reaches outward and inward at once By Ross It took m…
The Broadway Theatre Review: Two downtown sensations take Broadway by storm By Ross "Hello, kittens," is the greeting that started my two-show Saturday, and I knew from that first moment I w…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Paddington, Into the Woods, Punch, and more take top honours as London's theatre season finds its defining moment By Ross It always begins with a list, but it never…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Oliviers are happening right now, as I write By Ross Theatre has a strange way of making time feel suspended, and tonight, that feeling is impossible to ignore.…
The Broadway Theatre Review: A sharp, unsettling dark comedy about love, truth, and self-preservation by Second Stage By Ross The first thing we hear is a description of a crime scene. A tel…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: A bold contemporary reckoning with Antigone at the Public By Ross The first line arrives as a question that feels almost too simple for the weight it carries…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: NYTW's intimate musical portrait of grief and connection By Ross A couple stands before us, shining from within while pointing to a futon couch that can, wit…
Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler perform in The Last Five Years at the Hollywood Bowl The first time I encountered The Last Five Years, I remember trying to map it out in my head, as if understan…
The Broadway Theatre Review: A strong cast anchors a gripping story that never quite finds its frequency By Ross The first sound is not a voice, but a search. A crackle of radio static fills…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: A 25th anniversary concert reveals the emotional architecture of Jason Robert Brown's enduring musical By Ross The first time I encountered The Last Five Years, I r…
An Izzy Ontario Theatre Review: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Grand Theatre By Izzy Siebert Vivid and vibrant, The Importance of Being Earnest is unabashedly joyful at t…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Roundabout's Chinese Republicans By Ross "She's late, the girl." The line lands like a flared warning before anything else has the chance to settle. It is to…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Stage 42's Gotta Dance! By Ross I walked into Gotta Dance! already holding onto a memory. Not of a specific show, but of a feeling. That moment when a line o…
They file in like a think-tank assembly, taking their positions for an intellectual discussion at the highest level. And then it shifts, slapping us hard with lines that resonate, pulled str…
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Public Theater's Public Charge By Ross They file in like a think-tank assembly, taking their positions for an intellectual discussion at the highest level. A…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The beloved musical parody steps onto Broadway with big songs, big laughs, and a question about what love really means By Ross Watching Schmigadoon! on television f…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: A new chapter for musical theatre unfolds across streaming and cinema By Ross It wasn't that long ago when I was sitting in that downtown NYTW theatre, aware that I…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Mexodus and Prince Faggot lead a field that reflects the bold, restless spirit of Off-Broadway By Ross It always starts with a list. And this morning, it all circle…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Hewitt's chaotic, immersive fever dream transforms ancient myth into a night of karaoke, comedy, and consequence By Ross I tell you, with all honesty, I did not w…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: John Cameron Mitchell brings Hedwig back on the road with music, memory, and that iconic voice By Ross "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," both the stage show and the film…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: A new dance-driven musical celebrates the movement that shaped generations of Broadway storytelling By Ross The things I tend to remember most about a musical are n…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle step into a modern classic while David Lindsay-Abaire turns a quiet street into a pressure point By Ross Some nights on the Broadway cal…
The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Bughouse at Vineyard Theatre By Acton Henry Darger was an artist by animal instinct, hoarding photographs, newspaper clippings, scraps from coloring bo…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Debbie Allen Revives August Wilson's Masterpiece at the Barrymore Theatre By Ross Some plays don't just stay with you. They sit beside you for years, quietly waitin…