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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Kafkaesque! by Sarah Downs

Kafkaesque! currently playing at Theatre 154 celebrates the laugh riot that is Kafka's oevre, particularly his finest creation, Gregor Samsa.  In an amazing feat of alchemy (Kafka would app…

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Monday, October 21, 2024

Ashes and Ink by Sarah Downs

How do you define 'trauma?'  Is it Pain?  Fear?  Desperation?  Doubt?  For the characters In Ashes & Ink it's all of that and more.  They wrestle with undercurrent of their individ…

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Honeyland by Sarah Downs

From the Burne-Jone-esque promotional photo I thought Honeyland was going to be a nostalgic, romantic, perhaps insightful musical representation of 1960's counterculture.  I'm sorry to say,…

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Bill Russell – Divas I Love Singing Lyrics I Wrote by Sarah Downs

In a special performance at Birdland on September 30th, celebrated lyricist Bill Russell showcased some of his most famous songs from his long career.   Lean and vibrant, Russell burst wit…

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Ballet X at the Joyce Theater by Sarah Downs

BalletX brought its unique brand of contemporary ballet to the Joyce Theater last week.  In a program of three ballets, these excellent dancers moved effortlessly among diverse dance and th…

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Medea Re-Versed by Sarah Downs

A woman walked into a theater ... and lost her mind.  In the best way possible. The post Medea Re-Versed appeared first on The Front Row Center.

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Friday, September 20, 2024

Vile Isle by Sarah Downs

In Vile Isle, currently playing at the Tank, a beautiful Drag Diva prophet of doom presides over chaos as a flood of Biblical proportions threatens  humanity, sending four men on a tempes…

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Monday, August 5, 2024

The Meeting: The Interpreter by Sarah Downs

The Meeting: The Interpreter, purports to examine issues of identity and individual freedom in the face of government's impersonal, all-powerful machinery. Sadly, the play fails to communic…

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Pilobolus at the Joyce Theater by Sarah Downs

Pilobolus, the storied, avant-garde dance company formed in 1971 by three inquisitive Dartmouth students has evolved into a major driver of change in the dance world -- and for good reason.�…

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon (Las Dedicadas Lágrimas de la Luna Menguante) by Sarah Downs

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon (Las Dedicadas Lágrimas de la Luna Menguante), inspired by true events of historical human rights violations in Venezuela is heartfelt and heart-rendi…

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Friday, July 12, 2024

The Village! A Disco Daydream by Sarah Downs

The Village! A Disco Daydream, an over-the-top, loving tribute to the village’s gay Gay past, delivers on its promise to memorialize the Village at its disco finest. You want to celebrate…

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Friday, June 21, 2024

Magdalene: I am the utterance of my name by Sarah Downs

In her solo piece Magdalene: I am the utterance of my name,  Sylvia Milo challenges received notions of the identity of Mary Magdalene, seeking to restore an unjustly silenced female voice …

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

The Fires by Sarah Downs

The Fires is a fascinating new play by Raja Feather Kelly, it's all three - at the same time - and in the same place:  Brooklyn.  In an anciet, railroad apartment, characters in three dis…

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Invasive Species by Sarah Downs

Invasive Species at the Vineyard Theatre, interrogates the confluence of certainty and accomodation in the search for, or creation of, identity.  The performance is colorful, inventive, vis…

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

The Wiz by Sarah Downs

The Wiz has returned to Broadway, and boy is it fun - and boy is it exhausting.  Director Schele Williams has taken a "more is more" attitude to this classic show, with emphasis on bright c…

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Perfect Crime by Sarah Downs

Perfect Crime is a charmless, clueless play that passed its sell-by date 20 years ago.  Between endless monologues, convoluted plot line and extraordinarily maladroit execution, this play i…

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Monday, February 12, 2024

Jonah by Sarah Downs

Jonah, by Rachel Bonds, is an exciting, absorbing drama about a young woman navigating that difficult transition from teenager to independent adult, hampered by more than her fair share of d…

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Primordial by Sarah Downs

In the inventive, heartfelt and entertaining piece Primordial by Lillian Isabella, playing at the Tank through February 24th, six  actresses speak the words of real women and people involve…

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Friday, February 2, 2024

White Rose by Sarah Downs

White Rose tells story of an idealistic young woman who with her brother and two friends braved danger by daring to speak out against Fascism in the form of a pamphlet of anonymous origin wh…

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Formidable! Aznavour by Sarah Downs

At the Town Hall on Saturday Jauary 14th, Jules Grison sang his heart out, sharing his  love of the great composer and singer Charles Asnavour with an audience who deserved neither his time…

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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch: I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Sarah Downs

Joy to the world!  Christine Ebersole is performing at 54 Below!  Together with partner-in-music Billy Stritch, Ebersole shows us How. It's. Done. In her pitch perfect holiday cabaret "I'…

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

You and I – The Words and Music of Leslie Bricusse by Sarah Downs

Dianne Fraser kicked off the release of her album You and I – The Words and Music of Leslie Bricusse with a cabaret of the same name at Don't Tell Mama.  What an exciting moment for any a…

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Monday, December 11, 2023

Peter and the Wolf by Sarah Downs

Reason 4,723 to visit in New York City:  Peter & the Wolf , directed and narrated by Isaac Mizrahi.  What an absolute delight.   Appearing annually at the Guggenheim Museum since 201…

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Shadows by Sarah Downs

Relationships are never easy.  For the five women in Shadows, written and directed by Anthony M. Laura it is ever so.  Alas, we don't really learn why.  The actresses do their best, but b…

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Friday, December 1, 2023

‘Til Death by Sarah Downs

In her play, 'Til Death, Elizabeth Coplan examines the less attractive aspects of death - less attractive in that as we watch a loved one reach the end of his or her life, feelings we would …

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Jungle Book reimagined by Sarah Downs

With next level production design, evocative score and extraordinary dancing,  Jungle Book Reimagined is, well..., extraordinary.  The piece recontextualizes the original narrative of aban…

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Monday, November 13, 2023

Arcadia by Sarah Downs

I had one of those tingly New York theater experiences last Friday night.  You know the kind -- you walk into an unprepossessing theater space, not sure what to expect, and witness some ast…

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Saturday, November 11, 2023

November 1918: The Great War and The Great Gatsby by Sarah Downs

In November 1918: The Great War and The Great Gatsby, John Monsky has brought what is clearly a labor of love to the stage in an apt and timely Veterans Day homage to the soldiers who served…

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

#Ugly Cry by Sarah Downs

In her startling one woman show #UglyCry, Katie Mack, a veritable dynamo of a woman, meditates on the meaning,  nay, the very nature of existence.  This is no quiet Shakespearean soliloquy…

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Friday, October 13, 2023

The Fabulist Fox Sister by Sarah Downs

The Fabulist Fox Sister is an absolute delight.  Intelligent, sardonic, deep-down human with just enough edge to keep you on your toes, the show cracks open the origin story of séances, a…

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Under Heaven’s Eyes: The Systemic and Systematic Unjustified Killing of Black Lives  by Sarah Downs

An admirable goal and lofty subject matter, Christopher Tajah's's solo show about systemic racism and violence takes on a difficult, timely subject but alas doesn't help us to shed any parti…

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic