Thursday, April 30, 2026
And speaking of reflection, a piece composed by Renee Rosnes titled Mirror Image is featured in this show. The piano chords begin dissonant as though they are announcing a coming tempest.�…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
... we are being seduced from the first moments of sound. Iyer starts on the Fender Rhodes keyboard, which he manipulates into soft bells ringing out a beautiful summer day and calling i…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2026
The first piece, Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk), Scott starts with a beat that feels out the space and brings us in. Hays takes over the lead in a skillful melodious syncopation - like n…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2026
The best part about watching these seasoned players is that the scaffolding of the games' structures was often so hidden that it felt like there were no rules; you know the rules, right? …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
The young men sit at the table of master manipulator, Dragutin "Apis" Dimitrijevic (Patrick Page). Page brings bright engaging charisma to this historical figure. His comedy is in hi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:45PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
Joyah Dominique (Melissa) is going places. Any Broadway casting director should have her on speed dial. Her instrument is utterly fluid embodying Melissa's heart, through surprise hu…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Arjuna's own son, Abhimanyu, is lost in the battle.  We do not expect this as he is only fifteen years old. Krishna allows a bending of truth to come from the mouth of Yudhishthir…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
Fernandes and Ravi Jain boldly combine tradition, rich with layered messages and meaning, with struggles of our modern Western-dominated world. Characters are gender fluid, feminine wisd…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2025
... the world outside Young Omara's experience is about to explode. New Year's Eve 1958 in Havana is the night Castro's revolutionaries violently drive out Batista's regime and take over…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
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 mil…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:23PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
Hey, 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 Ne…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2024
The 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 ha…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
Roger-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 and, …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
Patrick 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 Ad…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2024
I 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 e…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Gather '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: The Front Row Center at 03:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 17, 2023
In "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: The Front Row Center at 04:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2023
The 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: The Front Row Center at 11:07AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
The 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 …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:25PM[SHARE]by 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 Direct…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
Lucy (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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2023
There'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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2023
We 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 …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2023
The 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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Vermont 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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Onto 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 …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:20AM[SHARE] 
