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Jerome by Stanford Friedman

This sad, scary, but ultimately heartfelt tale tracks a trio of gay men as they bond together while trying to cope with their own personal problems, each man more damaged than the next. The …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:30pm on June 2, 2026☆⚑

The People Versus Lenny Bruce by Stanford Friedman

The production struggles to balance its two separate and very unequal protagonists but Johnny Anthony effectively embodies Lenny Bruce, bringing his swagger and nervous energy to the fore. T…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 8:05pm on May 14, 2026☆⚑

Blackout Songs by Stanford Friedman

The American premiere of this 2022 British drama features two blackout drunks who are as addicted to each other as they are to the bottle. The post Blackout Songs appeared first on The Front…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 7:40pm on January 27, 2026☆⚑

The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire by Stanford Friedman

Can a solid cast hold together a play which is built to come apart? The answer, happily, is yes. The post The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire appeared first on The Front Row Center.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:15pm on November 9, 2025☆⚑

Beau: The Musical by Stanford Friedman

While coming-of-age stories are tried-and-true audience pleasers, rare is the tale that features a gay youth finding himself with the help of both a sexually confused bully and a gruff grand…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:15pm on October 27, 2025☆⚑

The Weir by Stanford Friedman

An engaging interpretation of a piece that, if structurally curious, at least features the three pillars of any good Irish play: loss, regret, and loneliness. The post The Weir appeared firs…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 8:22pm on July 17, 2025☆⚑

Heathers: The Musical by Stanford Friedman

HEATHERS - a powerhouse sextet of women are on hand, blissfully belting their way through the madness, in a captivating show of strength. The post Heathers: The Musical appeared first on The…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:15pm on July 10, 2025☆⚑

Bus Stop by Stanford Friedman

Grace's Diner, the setting for William Inge's classic, slice of life drama, Bus Stop, serves homemade pies and cakes. But the customers and wait staff who find themselves stranded overnight …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 3:39pm on May 19, 2025☆⚑

Mystic Conversations by Stanford Friedman

Every mother thinks her child is special, but rare is the mom who believes her son is gifted to the point that he can communicate with the dead. The post Mystic Conversations appeared first …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 4:22pm on May 1, 2025☆⚑

Our Town by Stanford Friedman

Kenny Leon lands his 28 member multiracial cast down in a version of Grover's Corners that is futuristic in its inclusiveness; a world that is a wish, where interracial romance is de rigueur…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 5:16pm on October 16, 2024☆⚑

McNeal by Stanford Friedman

You may not leave the theater teary-eyed but your brain will be bursting with ideas inspired by this meaty think piece. The post McNeal appeared first on The Front Row Center.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:15pm on September 30, 2024☆⚑

Fatherland by Stanford Friedman

With breakneck pacing and powerful performances from its two leads, Fatherland rips the bandage off a wounded moment in our history. It's supposed to hurt less that way, but it doesn't. The …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:42am on September 27, 2024☆⚑

The Beacon by Stanford Friedman

The Beacon takes its time navigating the troubled waters stirred up by a foursome who come together on an island off the coast of West Cork only to realize they are better off apart. The pos…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:20pm on September 22, 2024☆⚑

Lifeline by Stanford Friedman

It is not every Off-Broadway musical that boasts a chorus of 12 real-life healthcare professionals. Then again, it is unlikely there has ever been a musical quite as concerned with antibioti…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 2:25pm on September 4, 2024☆⚑

Cellino V. Barnes by Stanford Friedman

A high energy romp with many a guilty pleasure. The post Cellino V. Barnes appeared first on The Front Row Center.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 3:43pm on August 5, 2024☆⚑

The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical by Stanford Friedman

So winningly sung and so lovingly directed one cannot help but be wooed by its charms, despite a final scene that is so never in doubt. The post The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical appeared firs…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 1:01pm on August 1, 2024☆⚑

On Beckett by Stanford Friedman

Mandatory viewing for anyone who wants to be an actor, or a clown, or a time traveler, or a human in touch with humanity.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 8:15pm on July 11, 2024☆⚑

From Here by Stanford Friedman

How do you proceed with a romantic comedy after a tragedy intervenes? The answer is, you don't.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 7:25pm on July 1, 2024☆⚑

Dark Noon by Stanford Friedman

Dark Noon ignores nothing as it takes stock of the evils embraced by those who built the Wild West, and lays bare the lasting scars.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:24pm on June 17, 2024☆⚑

Molly Sweeney by Stanford Friedman

Sarah Street brings a quiet dignity to the complicated role of Molly, a character who is strongly independent even as she succumbs to the will of others and marries "for no very good reason …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:30pm on May 23, 2024☆⚑

The Lonely Few by Stanford Friedman

Loneliness is not the problem for the discouraged band members who sing out their troubles in MCC Theater's dynamic rock musical, The Lonely Few. Indeed, most of them can hardly find a momen…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 3:01pm on May 21, 2024☆⚑

Munich Medea: Happy Family by Stanford Friedman

Nourished by Corinne Jaber's sharp writing and Lee Sunday Evans' sensitive direction, this production makes the most out of isolating its players. It serves to effectively express the loneli…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 8:15pm on February 12, 2024☆⚑

Spamalot by Stanford Friedman

The pleasures of the Broadway revival of Spamalot are three in number. Three shall be the number thou shall count and the number of the counting shalt be three.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:34pm on November 21, 2023☆⚑

Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion by Stanford Friedman

Mind Mangler conjures up a sad loser who fails magnificently at his craft, cracking up the audience while gaining their sympathy along the way.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:28am on November 20, 2023☆⚑

The Lights Are On by Stanford Friedman

Playwright Owen Panettieri sticks three jittery oddballs in a haunted house and leaves it to the audience to decide who among them is the biggest victim, the worst tormenter, the most insane.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:30pm on October 13, 2023☆⚑

Jaja's African Hair Braiding by Stanford Friedman

The employees of Jaja's each have their own ways of living with this danger. Bioh intertwines their tales, director Whitney White shapes the action into a tight thing of beauty and the ensem…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 3:25pm on October 6, 2023☆⚑

El Mago Pop by Stanford Friedman

Close-up magic accounts for about a third of the production's 90 minutes and is never less than spectacular.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:00pm on August 20, 2023☆⚑

Prejudice & Pride by Stanford Friedman

It turns out that the sense and sensibilities of Jane Austen can be neatly showcased in a sequence of country-western ballads, played on the banjo and written by a long-haired young man from…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 8:30pm on July 18, 2023☆⚑

Good Vibrations by Stanford Friedman

Adapted from their true banger of a bio film of the same name, writers Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson again conspire to cage intense musicality within the true life story of Terri Hooley…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 4:42pm on June 21, 2023☆⚑

Megan Hilty at Café Carlyle by Stanford Friedman

A short but sweet set of old favorites, tinged with country music and seasoned with a dash of Smash.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 4:35pm on June 21, 2023☆⚑

Khan!!! The Musical! by Stanford Friedman

Khan!!! The Musical! crazily, but cleverly, goes where no multi-racial, multi-talented, multi-species cast has gone before.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 3:54pm on May 12, 2023☆⚑

Fall River Fishing by Stanford Friedman

In this comically surreal reimagining of the Lizzie Borden story, the playwriting team of Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deborah Knox have more on their minds than just homicide by hatchet. They dis…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:48pm on February 27, 2023☆⚑

A Bright New Boise by Stanford Friedman

This decidedly dark drama chronicles the lives of five emotionally damaged Idahoans who spend their days working at an art supply store and their nights pensively seeking some sort of salvat…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 2:00pm on February 22, 2023☆⚑

Melissa Errico: A Noir Romance TWO MORE DATES!!! by Stanford Friedman

You can't have a proper celebration of film noir music without a murder, so it is fortunate that Melissa Errico kills during her cinematic and sultry concert

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 6:31pm on February 13, 2023☆⚑

Anthony Rapp's Without You by Stanford Friedman

A work that meditates on a heart aneurysm, cancer and the specter of AIDS, but finds joy in a son's love and an actor's big break.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 2:29pm on January 27, 2023☆⚑

The Smuggler: A Thriller in Rhyme by Stanford Friedman

Mellamphy's assured, charismatic performance, and clear gift of gab, makes Tim an engaging and all too relatable anti-hero who finds his way to success via a series of questionably justified…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 8:15pm on January 26, 2023☆⚑

Your Own Personal Exegesis by Stanford Friedman

This risky production could have been holy hell, but director Annie Tippe and an enthusiastic cast clearly have faith in Julia May Jonas's religious service of a script, making believers out…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 1:05pm on December 6, 2022☆⚑

The Rat Trap by Stanford Friedman

Wedded bliss. Marital splendor. Joyful union. Matrimony hath many the happy descriptor. But, in 1918, for a budding 18-year-old playwright named NoÃ«l Coward, marriage was The Rat Trap.Â

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:01pm on November 21, 2022☆⚑

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Stanford Friedman

Evanston, IL seems an unlikely spot to serve as the frozen, dark epicenter of suicidal thoughts and vanished pasts. But for Peter, a salt truck driver, and his co-worker Basil, its icy roads…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:44pm on November 18, 2022☆⚑

Good Enemy by Stanford Friedman

The work brings fresh urgency to the 1980's aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution, when young citizens experimented with forgoing the Communist Party in favor of the cocktail party,

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 9:15pm on November 6, 2022☆⚑

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical by Stanford Friedman

Eight actors and one hand puppet portray over a dozen characters in Jonathan Hogue's pressurized fire hose of a musical. This parody of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, had its initi…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 2:00pm on September 24, 2022☆⚑

Book Review "Agnes De Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance" by Kara Anne Gardner by Stanford Friedman

It is a meticulously researched must-read for fans and students of dance, aspiring directors, playwrights, and weekend theatergoers alike; which is to say that de Mille's choreographic contr…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 9:48am on August 22, 2016☆⚑

Book Review "Then & Now: A Memoir" by Barbara Cook by Stanford Friedman

There are goodly amounts of backstage lore and music appreciation surrounding her memories of Candide, The Music Man, She Loves Me and Follies"catnip for theater buffs. Her descriptions of w…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:44am on June 21, 2016☆⚑

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Hadestown

Hamilton

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The Lost Boys

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Wicked

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Aladdin

& Juliet

The Balusters

Becky Shaw

The Book Of Mormon

Buena Vista Social Club

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Celebrity Autobiography

Chess

Chicago

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Dog Day Afternoon

Every Brilliant Thing

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Giant

The Great Gatsby

Hadestown

Hamilton

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The Lost Boys

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Aladdin

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The Balusters

Becky Shaw

The Book Of Mormon

Buena Vista Social Club

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Chicago

Death Becomes Her

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Oh, Mary!

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The Outsiders

Proof

Ragtime

The Rocky Horror Show

Schmigadoon!

Six

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

The Lost Boys

Titanique

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Wicked

79th Annual Tony Awards

Aladdin

& Juliet

The Balusters

Becky Shaw

The Book Of Mormon

Buena Vista Social Club

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Celebrity Autobiography

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Chicago

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Giant

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Hadestown

Hamilton

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The Lost Boys

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The Book Of Mormon

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