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Friday, November 17, 2023

I Can Get It For You Wholesale by Tulis McCall

We meet Harry as a young man who remembers being robbed of his earnings as a messenger for the rag business.  As an adult, when faced with eviction, Harry steps on the wrong treadmill and n…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:11PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Baggage at the Door by Tulis McCall

Aber walks us through a variety of methods she uses to defeat the PTSD that has built up over the past four January episodes and makes her terrified of being seen.  At the same time, being …

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:00PM
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Marilyn Maye at 54 Below by Tulis McCall

Logic tells us Marilyn Maye, at 95, must be on the way down.  But the way she works a room, it feels like up to me.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:36PM

Sesame Street The Musical by Tulis McCall

Big Bird is not part of this musical, but the other mainstay characters more than make up for it.  Cookie Monster eats the set.  The Count counts.  Elmo dances up a storm.  And Bert and …

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:12PM
Friday, October 20, 2023

All The Devils Are Here by Tulis McCall

Each character that Page gives us is a marvel of precision, execution and the flame of human spirit that connects us all.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:09PM

Norbert Leo Butz Sings Torch Songs For A Pandemic by Tulis McCall

In this show his musicianship is out in front.  He begins at the piano, gliding through his earlier years.  After a bit he is joined by Nick Blaemire and Ethan Slater on guitar, piano and …

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:00PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

DIG by Tulis McCall

as the play concludes Rebeck drops us off in the neighborhood near where the story started.  Where truth was a bargaining chip.  Curiosity was the coinage of the realm.  And possibility w…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:30PM
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

JOB by Tulis McCall

This play is not a walk in the park.  It is a running of the gauntlet.  Both these characters are playing a high stakes game, and because of the combination of writing, direction and perfo…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:00PM
Monday, September 18, 2023

Trippping On Life by Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCall Let me tell you something about Lin Shaye   This woman has worked.  A lot.  Since 1975 when she had a small role in Hester Street, she has worked steadily in film and te…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 07:30PM
Friday, September 1, 2023

Pay The Writer by Tulis McCall

With a title like "Pay The Writer" you might think that this is a play about just that, or about the  tension between wirters and, well, everyone else.  You would be wrong.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:47PM
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Let’s Call Her Patty by Tulis McCall

What is so remarkable about "Let's Call Her Patty" at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is that it is unremarkable.  

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:29PM

The Doctor by Tulis McCall

The ideas in this play are not new, but they are newly laid out.  And of course in this political climate of fake news and lies as truths they are still relevant.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:41AM
Friday, July 28, 2023

One Woman Show by Tulis McCall

Not my cuppa, I'm afraid.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:59PM

Just For Us by Tulis McCall

OK THIS goes on my FAVORITES list. When Edelman drops us off at the final bus stop you realize we have doubled back around to the beginning.  He leaves us where he found us, except we are t…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:09PM
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground by Tulis McCall

One person shows that are biographical are always a bid dodgy. For one thing, the author has to come up with a reason for the character onstage to be talking at all - because the character i…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:26PM
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Days Of Wine and Roses by Tulis McCall

Watching O’Hara and D’Arcy James in "Days of Wine And Roses" is both thrilling and exhausting.  These two thoroughbreds navigate this difficult and overwritten score with grace and self…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:25PM
Friday, May 26, 2023

Tickets for New York, NewYork on SALE thru January 14, 2024 by Tulis McCall

... a new block of tickets for the nine-time Tony Award nominated new musical, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, are now available for performances through Sunday, January 14, 2024

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:44PM

Primary Trust by Tulis McCall

There are several ways for a man to deal with a childhood trauma. He might seek out psychotherapy. He could delve into meditation. Or, if he is Kenneth, the central character in Eboni Booth�…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:01AM
Saturday, May 13, 2023

PLAYWRIGHTS WELCOME PROGRAM RELAUNCH by Tulis McCall

CONTACT: DRAMATISTS GUILD OF AMERICA Sarah Rebell, [email protected], (212) 398-9366  CONCORD THEATRICALS AND THE DRAMATISTS GUILD RELAUNCH PLAYWRIGHTS WELCOME PROGRAM  REMOVING …

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Friday, April 28, 2023

2023 CHITA RIVERA AWARD NOMINATIONS by Tulis McCall

2023 CHITA RIVERA AWARD NOMINATIONS BROADWAY OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY IN A BROADWAY SHOW   Steven Hoggett, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot Susan…

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2023 Drama Desk Nominations by Tulis McCall

2023 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS Outstanding Play A Case for the Existence of God, by Samuel D. Hunter, Signature Theatre Fat Ham, by James Ijames, The Public Theater and National Black Theatre L…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:48PM
Thursday, April 27, 2023

New York, New York by Tulis McCall

Theatre is a temple.  We go there to open our hearts and let them be touched by someone or something unexpected.  We willingly place ourselves in a seat and hope for the best.  With "New …

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:54AM
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Goodnight, Oscar by Tulis McCall

This is a hodge-podge of disappointing writing and direction.  Levant is a person I saw on many a movie screen - THAT guy I cared about. This Levant - not so much.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:10PM
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Tulis McCall

Everybody performed with grace and commitment.  For whatever reason I did not feel much more than interested.  This, as I have said many times, is part of the magic of the arts and particu…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:36PM
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Plays for the Plague Year by Tulis McCall

Today's catastrophe becomes yesterday's property in an instant. We are bombarded with information that most of us neither need nor want with the result that what should be remembered and hel…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:29PM
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

White Girl In Danger by Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCall I don’t know where to begin. More than once duing the performance of “White Girl In Danger” by Michael R. Jackson my guest and I looked at one another and said, “What…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:33PM
Friday, April 14, 2023

Camelot by Tulis McCall

This production is "Camelot Light" which is too bad because at its core it is a universal tale of how hope can become calamity and still not surrender.  It is a noble tale that deserves a n…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:55AM
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro at Café Carlyle – Och & Oy! A Considered Cabaret by Tulis McCall

There is something to be said for two guys - Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro - aided in no small part by their musical director Henry Koperski - having fun.  Just plain fun.  Serious fun. And…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:00PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023

The Marvelous Marilyn Maye at Carnegie Hall by Tulis McCall

At 95, Maye is an explosion of joy tempered with a touch of sarcasm and voice that is like velvet and knows where to lead us.

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:10PM
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

The Seagull/Woodstock, NY by Tulis McCall

It's not that I feel precious about original scripts.  I recently saw "A Doll's House" and thought Amy Herzog did a masterful job of doing just enough to mold the script into a new incarnat…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:27PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Drinking In America by Tulis McCall

The human elements of alcoholism and its control of life can be harsh, and many of us have experienced interactions with those who abuse. Man breaks into an angry rant about society in Ameri…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PM

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