Suzzy Roche, Grace McLean, Alana Raquel Bowers (center), and Nina Ross in Cold War Choir Practice. Photo by Maria Baranova. A child asking for a nuclear shelter for Christmas should feel li…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Erin Shields’ lyrical world premiere gives voice to the women who carried the story By Ross A story told over centuries rarely asks who was in the room but not …
The Off-Broadway Review: Ro Reddick’s genre-bending play turns absurdity into something unsettlingly familiar By Ross A child asking for a nuclear shelter for Christmas should feel like a …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: This year’s nominees reflect a field alive with urgency and imagination By Ross It has been a remarkable year for theatre in New York City, and I am forever feeli…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Alex Jodi Verge’s contemporary adaptation reframes Shakespeare through intimacy, surveillance, and emotional fracture By Ross I have seen Hamlet more times than…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: This year’s nominations reflect a season rich with risk, reinvention, and voices that refuse to be ignored And away we go! Seeing the list of nominations for the …
The Toronto Theatre Review: Matthew MacKenzie's ambitious new play searches for balance amid competing truths By Ross "I'm not political" has always felt like a statement loaded with its own…
The Broadway Theatre Review: John Lithgow leads a razor-sharp Broadway transfer of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier-winning play By Ross Hammering echoes behind the tarps and scaffolding before any…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Clare Barron's restless, electric play soars through the chaos of becoming By Ross At thirteen, the body feels like it could betray you at any moment, but it also…
Frontmezzjunkies reports and reviews: A TIFF standout anchored in consequence arrives in Canadian theatres By Ross A familiar 'based on a true story' framework gives way to something far mor…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Lynn Nottage's kitchen burns with heat, humour, and hard-won hope By Ross The love of a sandwich, as the most democratic and inventive thing, tells us more than o…
Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Olivier-winning solo thriller begins previews Off-Broadway following a celebrated London run By Ross Kenrex, when I saw it in London, England, last December, di…
The Toronto Theatre Review: Riot King's sharp, surreal Gothic comedy about longing, isolation, and being seen By Ross A bird crashes into the window as the wind howls, almost from the moment…
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…