Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Another Shot focuses on the decision to go through rehab versus deciding to BE in rehab. Another Shot is loosely based on the real-life experiences of Harry Teinowitz, whose career and life …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:15PMMonday, October 28, 2024
“This group is as real as it gets.” Rawshock crafts a safe place, a space of trust and care and support. Five individuals—some inpatient and some outpatients at a mental health hospita…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:22AMFriday, October 25, 2024
Gidion's Knot puts the way teachers and parents navigate communication and professionalism on stage. The gaps, the silences, create the tense space where we sit, surrounding these two adults…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:52PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Numerous directions of morality and betrayal are questioned. Is a public debate democracy or theater? Are “good” journalists shit stirrers?—those that are willing to put their lives at…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:23PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Night one of the Paul Taylor Dance Company performances was theater; it was bold, it was diverse, and the precision, intimacy, and technique were especially highlighted. The evening had a da…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:28PMFriday, June 14, 2024
“It wasn’t a good Jew that survived the war.”
It's 1986 and we're in the den of Holocaust survivor, Henryk Altman. In a roomy leather chair, Henryk (Frank Blocker) speaks to us: a str…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:18PMMisles, gun shots, explosions. Breaking the Story first places us in a foreign forest, where journalist Marina and her cameraman-turned-lover, are shielding themselves from attacks. We may o…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:51PMFriday, June 7, 2024
The passion for sharing the work of Micki Grant found in these four performers exhibit is absorbed by the audience, and whether we grew up listening to Micki or have only heard one or two of…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:47PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
By Kendra Jones “Kids just wanna get messy!” As we enter the theater, we’re invited to put our names in the fishbowl in the hope that we’re chosen as a participant for “physical ch…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:32PMIt's past 10pm when Julia Masli creeps up the backstage exit door steps, towards the audience. She doesn't resemble the classic clown--rather an anglerfish with a tiny handbell. A breathy, e…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:20PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Beautifully detailed lyrics of reminiscence depicting Susan, Sadie, and Beckett’s memories and joy of childhoods spent with their grandparents transport us “Over the river and through th…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:07PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
Mary Jane gives the audience a brief insight into the responsibilites, the committment, of doctors, mothers, home nurses. We see the optimism that oozes from them day and night, in the most …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:25PMFriday, April 26, 2024
“Hands up for Father God.” Teeth is a comical, gross, and over the top production of slashing and gore personifying the mental process and aftermath of freeing oneself from a wrath.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:47PMMonday, April 22, 2024
The fluidity of gender and defying social norms take center stage. Feathers, sequins, tulle, lots of tulle, so much tulle. Orlando notes how change of clothes can change a person: clothes we…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:09PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Corruption, directed by Bartlett Sher and written by J.T. Rogers, allows the audience to see behind the curtain of a media empire. Whether we're entering this performance with little knowled…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:50AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Green and gold shiny streamers hang around the space. Purim, a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of Jews from annihilation, and dated all the way back to the fifth century BC, is b…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:23PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
Sunset Baby, written by Dominique Morisseau, is about the generational trauma, love, and fear that is passed from parents to children. We think about how children are handed wounds that they…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:35PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
The Hunt presents a tight-knit town, where word travels fast, and brotherhood is ever present. A group of men with guns, beer, and children: Their lives revolve around these these, hyper-foc…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:51PMMonday, February 26, 2024
A Sign of the Times is fun, vibrant, relevant, and relatable. The costuming is bright, the vocals are powerful, the choreography is explosive, the writing seamlessly weaves songs of the 60's…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:36PMThursday, February 22, 2024
In under seven minutes, "I Am What You Imagine" gives the viewer a sensory experience. From the ripples and foam of waves, bubbles from faces submerged under water—the glub glub of bubbles…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:26PMNice People, directed by Jeff Griecci and written by Ian Carlsen, is essentially five shorts taped together to shape a feature. Shot over five years, over only a few weekends in Maine, a lar…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:24PMThursday, January 25, 2024
A musical about the invention of basketball, without an actual, physical basketball…
Not only did The Perfect Game: A Slam Dunk New Musical introduce the start of basketball and capture J…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:33PMSunday, January 21, 2024
Confessions of a Showgirl is a quirky, honest, and modern memoiristic cabaret brought to stage at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. It was entertaining through all of Maren Wade's comedic, dramat…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:58PMMonday, December 11, 2023
Beneath the sex, the fucking, is despair. Mickey Sabbath makes us uncomfortable, he happily invites us into his most despicable thoughts, and he is so content in exposing us to moments that …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:27PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
A performance rooted in hope, resilience, and perseverance, Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) captures the tireless journey Jews experienced throughout World War II. Songs and dance…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:29PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
Up-and-coming Broadway performers brought passion, fun, and unquestionably unmatched talent for 54 Below's Halloween Pregame Concert.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:01PMWednesday, October 25, 2023
Emergence invites us on a journey exploring big ideas revolving around science. Are we alive? How do we perceive things? Are things really as they seem? I found myself at the crossroads of a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:30PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Em and Winn, and Teresa, and Rohit may be used to saying goodbye--maybe they have already grieved loss, anticipated grief. But what they aren't prepared for in Grief Hotel is the ripping, sh…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:23AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
Deep Blue Sound, by Abe Koogler, opens with characters funneling onto stage, greeting or ignoring each other, taking seats, chattering. Someone blows their nose. They get situated; we get si…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:39AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Reliving those years upon years you spent around the same people, and you leave—finally, phew—wanting to return different, break from the mold, feel like you’ve done something extraor…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:40PMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Everything that could disrupt a day, or a marriage, occurs, and we watch how Johaira and Manuel deal with and react to each situation. I'm rooting for this dissolving marriage and left concl…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:54PM 
