AMC’s new show Lodge 49 is odd and enigmatic and kind of entrancing. It’s hard to explain (it’s about a guy who joins a lodge, but it’s not really just about a guy who joins a lodge) and tough to pitch (I’m really feeling “because I said so” as my answer to your “why should […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Theatre ARTaud, Filament Incubator & Sketch Platform Productions’ trilogy of three very different but interconnected new works is one of the notable features of this Fringe. Viewable in whatever order you want, the Rage plays offer a rare sense of scope, existing in a […]
Nico Tortorella is the resident hot guy on TVLand’s winning comedy Younger. He’s cool, he’s charming, his character Josh owns a tattoo parlour called “Inkburg” and spends most of his time worrying that he falls in love too easily and fending off the advances of basically everyone in Brooklyn. Josh is sensitive and kind despite […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Climb (A-) Duane Forrest’s “live album” is like a musical memoir that uses shadow screens, recorded voices, and dance to embody the memories that inform each song Forrest performs. Site-specifically presented at St. Stephen’s Community House for what appears to be mostly practical reasons […]
Press Rooms aren’t as big a part of the ATX Television Festival as they are, say, San Diego Comic-Con. I did a fair number of 1:1 interviews with people who make TV, attended screenings of new shows and reunions of old casts and panels discussing everything from the impact of TGIF shows making their Hulu […]
In Everyone is Doing Great, the original pilot created by and starring James Lafferty…
July 4-15th, with a team of nine writers, we reviewed every single show in the Toronto Fringe Festival (not including KidsFest, you gotta leave something to strive for). Below you can find the complete list of shows with letter grades and links to our reviews. Check out our Twitter and Instagram @MyEntWorld for more from our Fringe […]
15 years ago, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman adapted for the stage a novel by Gregory Maguire that was itself an adaptation, or perhaps more accurately a revision, of The Wizard of Oz. The novel was dark and strange and long, full of deeply unlikeable characters and bleak allegorical observations about a world more real […]