Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Bianca and Katarina, the two daughters of Baptista (Vivien Landau) are to be married. And of course, dowries are crucial in this decision to choose the most suitable husband. But, there's a …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:52PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Conversations with Mother is a simple sitcom. This new semi-autobiographical comedy, written by Matthew Lombardo, and playing at New York City's Theater 555, is about a gay man's (Matt Doyle…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:39PMFriday, February 21, 2025
Safe House is the most hypnotic piece of 2025.
The effortless craze and unhinged performance by Grace (Kate Gilmore), an unhoused, lonely young woman, carries this story, as the plot was mor…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:38PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
Night Sings Its Songs, written by Nobel Prize Recipient Jon Olav Fosse, presents us with one disjointed, unhappy modern couple, in conflict for 70 minutes straight.
The post Night Sings Its …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:16PMFour plays--all one-acts of varying lengths--find similarity in how they're rooted in our internal thoughts and ideas put on display, whether they’re forced or willingly released. Often, w…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:09PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
"How far can you run in five minutes?"
..."How long is five minutes?" you may ask, out of breath, just a minute into running for your life.
Khawla Ibraheem has written this gripping monologu…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:33PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
Vinny DePonto is a storyteller, a mentalist, and a pleasure to spend an evening with as he leads us through a show of memory extraction. Mindplay is thought-provoking, playful, sentimental. …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:40PMMonday, December 9, 2024
A collection of reminiscences, from Christmas Eve to the magical day itself. Dylan Thomas (Reed Lancaster) is a child again; he narrates the gathering of family, joys and wishes of a child a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:28PMFriday, December 6, 2024
"Death Becomes Her" is completely over the top, exaggerated, and extravagant. ... We are forced to consider just how accurate this desire for perfection, the gaze of others, our fascination …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:13PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
We Live in Cairo is a generational yearning for change; six artists come together and they use their artistic talents and passion to fight for change, for freedom, for a future. We watch as…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:51PMTuesday, 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 04:24PM 
