Katie Brayben is Tammy Faye in this production and unlike Faye herself, Brayben has an incredible set of pipes. Tammy Faye was born and raised as Pentecostal in Minnesota, just a few miles…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:23PMHey, You; crying in your martini about a particular Tuesday in November: This is New York City; home of some of the yummiest drag queens in the world. Pay your tab and head on over to New …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:15PMThe advertising for this show tells us that it will make us want to call our moms. Hmmm. I'm not sure about that. I'll bet your mother is not much like Quinlan's mother. I have two m…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:09PMRoger-McKeever gives us a memoir of a rebellion that is just so common I can’t see it as radical: Straight married man begins an affair with a woman not his wife behind his wife’s back a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PMPatrick tells us of his grandparents - cousins - who miraculously survived as Jews in Paris through the entire war (cousins married all the time back then). Irma (Nancy Robinette) and Adol…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:15PMI love the playful style in “What is This Thing Called Love,” as all three musicians awakened us out of our January doldrums with their unexpected percussive opening. It is sexy, as if…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:46PMGather ‘round, Children and let me tell you of a time when one could live in New York City, work part time, develop art, present it and sell it. All this could happen while paying rent a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:34PMIn "Night of the Iguana" at Pershing Square presented by La Femme Theatre Productions and directed by Emily Mann, the only creatures with a high stakes awareness of a trapped existence are t…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:26PMThe proposal was gauche, the marriage quickly followed, the penguin who attended the wedding was fantastic and the divorce comes before the top tier of the cake is even cold in the freezer.�…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:07AMThe staging puts sex and violence in our laps. Iris and Dan have sweet heat in the beginning. My gut twists with empathy as Iris abandons her prescribed vigilance and identifies with t…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:25PMby Margret Echeverria Many of us have been stuck in guilt over the racial divide in this nation for too long healing nothing. Healing requires action. Jonathan Crory, Artistic Director o…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:12PMLucy (Jordan Boatman) the woman for whom all the trouble is made, is Helen of Troy gorgeous. With heaving bossom, she is such a master of physical comedy that we and all the "men" on the s…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PMThere's a mimicry scene between Ohashi and Peyman that is quite chilling. Clare may harden in this chill or she might just be surrendering to madness. I honestly don't know as we are lef…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:56PMWe witness unexpected acts of kindness like Scott heating up Sahar's couscous in the kitchen even though Sahar has been chatting forever and not doing a lick of work. Prakash speaks her fu…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:45PMThe show is refreshingly written and acted so honestly that it might be too painful if it weren't so often very funny. What is further genius is that parts of the show are not written at a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:29AMVermont starts with a naked happy sweet-faced boy running into the kitchen first thing in the morning. Free, white and in his 20's, Paul (Rob Riordan) stretches his body upwards to reach f…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:29AMOnto the dance floor steps Nick Caraway, Rob Brinkmann, who looks and behaves as if he just tumbled out of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s world. Brinkmann speaks in a humble midwestern manner wh…
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