If the 17-piece Kevin Blanq big band and Kathryn Farmer were not enough to get you in the mood for smooth swinging and dancing, the urbane, bespoke, and suave dancer extraordinaire Manuel Ro…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:44PMA Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx is a heartfelt, sentimental look at old-world family dynamics that many of us saw weaken after the shifts from cities to suburbs accelerated in the late 60…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:41PMFor the first time in 35 years, Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts returned to the stage. Envisioned initially by Ellington as a “Festival of Grace,” provenance for Sacred Concerts is in…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:17PMWendy Moten ascended to the Birdland stage with a smile and charm that lit up the room. From her first words and the comfortable swing tempo of her first song, All of Me, Moten emerged as a …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PMThe rich baritone voice of raconteur Frank Zilinyi launched Radiotheatre’s deliciously macabre exordium of The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street, a dark, spellbinding tale of New York City hi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:55AMBlake Allen’s Insomnia is a cerebral, enigmatic, and mystifying artistic creation chronicling a night of an insomniac narrator. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Sleep and Wa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:25PMBenjamin Franklin the man emerged as a frowzy, flawed, and crafty roué, relentlessly attempting to seduce the married Mme Brillon. Franklin deftly engaged and modified his façon de parler …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:31PMMaestro Botstein and The Orchestra Now demonstrated their capacity to express powerful rich intones, frenetic fugatos, and exquisite, intense subtleties.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:13AMWendel's songs are strikingly original, expressive, and extraordinarily inventive. His ideas and improvisations are freely chromatic, virtuosic, and organic, and he employed subtle be-bop id…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:40PMThis cast deserves high praise for maintaining the challenging, complex characters and tensions while also charming and engaging viewers who could not resist being sympathetic and moved. The…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:30PMThe performance of Mozart's Requiem, K526, was glorious and ecstatic. The sui generis admixture of rich sounds from soloists, chorus, and orchestra was superb. At the same time, the sumptuou…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:12PMCharlap opened with a sumptuous, gentle introduction to Tommy Dorsey's I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, leading to a string of some of the greatest songs of the American Songbook and jazz c…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:04PMWith the production’s delights of flamenco dancing, passionate arias, magnificent costuming, staging, lighting, soaring melodies, and powerful drama, we ultimately gasp in awe at the power…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:47PMKittredge is a songstress of sumptuous romantic energy who possesses a dazzling gift for expressing the rich meaning of songs. She owns a sensitive, delightful facon de parler and freely com…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:15PMAs the cast masterfully characterized Shakespeare’s saturnine work, we were inexorably drawn into the portentous tale. Supporting the account were the dim penumbra of macabre images, a pan…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:08AMLove Online was a delightful musical journey enhanced by some of the finest songs that were ever written. It was performed by two enchanting, empathetic, and erudite individuals who understa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:02AMThe Orchestra Now stands proudly in the well-earned tradition of excellence among the superb symphony orchestras that regularly perform in New York City. And while they celebrate major stand…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:35PMThis play production “Susan B” reminds us that Susan B. Anthony was an astounding, courageous voice in a wilderness who, at her peril, evoked an awakening of clear thinking, reflection, …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PMHuman nature prevails as little has changed since Henrik Ibsen's portrayal of "Hedda Gabler" in 1891 Norway. In tonight's "Hedda Gabler," we witnessed the meandering deviltries of the pistol…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:28PMNew York City Center presented the fourth installment of its Fall For Dance Festival, a trio of spectacular, diverse dance offerings and celebration of dance and music and a magical fusion o…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:25PMThe men were dapper, the ladies elegant, they were all beautiful, and together drew viewers into the time best befitting each Irving Berlin song’s historical context. We heard charming ane…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:35PMThe troupe aptly expressed the story with its twists and turns, plot and subplots, and its sojourn into the supernatural world of the night forest. We were indeed transported into the supern…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:39PMThe orchestra masterfully performed each work to ensure the expression of the composer's artistic and imaginative intent. Despite the large audience, individuals remained focused and quiet a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:48PMHarnar assiduously grasped a selection of Sondheim’s artistic jewels and customized it for his purposes. He accomplished this with aplomb and sheer artistry as he expressed the essence of …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:44PMLove, Sex and Real Estate captures the imagination within its rich context of possibilities exuding from human frailty, the complexity of relationships, and the dangers associated with love …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:21PMThis is a psychological thriller where complex characters are sustained in an ever-changing dreamscape. It’s akin to being trapped in a Salvador Dali painting or episode of The Outer Limit…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:15PMThis event was a heart-warming tribute to the life and career of the venerable, renowned actor James Earl Jones, one of the rare, elite “EGOTs, aka “Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony” winners.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:24PMBlack String performed a spectacular synthesis of energy-filled musical fusion. They are powered by an effective eclectic merger of traditional Korean instruments, electric guitar, amplifica…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:54PMBurbank is a period piece set solidly in its time and place. While modern aesthetes frequently luxuriate in modernizing period works to conform with contemporary social thought and theory, a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:24PMWords from Art Garfunkel's song "Grateful" sums up the talented, humble, kind, gentle David Jackson who tonight ably connected music to times in his life. Jackson’s performance was univers…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:06AMDebbie Gibson at 54 Below performed her “Out of the Blue” 35th Anniversary Event. The show began with video clips of Gibson performing in past concerts and scenes. The videos set the sta…
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