Wednesday, May 6, 2026
In the Othello in the West End Theatre’s small playing space, Bedlam is creating a whole world with a whisper of a set, a small lighting grid and a ton of imagination. In the hands of in…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2026
In Seagull:Â True Story, currently playing at the Public Theater, writer Eli Rarey; and creator/director Alexander Molochnikov welcome us into the wild and wooly world of their imaginatio…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2026
Despite an excellent, thoughtful set design, evocative music and clever plot conceit, PLAN C suffers from a lack of cohesion, perhaps due to the collective nature of its development. Too ma…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Ulster American, by David Ireland, currently playing at the Irish Repertory Theater through May 10th is one of the best plays I have seen in years. Topical, bitingly funny, and acted wit…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:23AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
JUST DESSERTS: A Musical Bake-Off, now playing at AMT Theater, is just what the title suggests " a musical about a bake-off. No not the Great British Bake-off - this one is hyper local. …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2025
In Tartuffe at the New York Theater Workshop, Lucas Hnath is serving up satire in a colorful reinterpretation of an ever relevant tale of religious hyocrisy and human fallibility. Told i…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2025
BalletX celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Joyce Theater Sept. 24th " 28th,  presenting a program of exciting works, some established and two more recent debuts during its all-too…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
The Other Americans - John Leguizamo has written a new classic. John Leguizamo tears his way into the character of Nelson, the raging, multi-layered, vulnerable, family patriarch trying to …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:45PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
In Road Kills, playwright  Sophie McIntosh has devised that most elusive of creations -- a truly original story. From the unique premise to unexpected plot twists, Road Kills looks at…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
How I Accidentally Went to War, Bill Posely's one man show currently running at the SoHo Playhouse, is an engaging piece of autobiographical theater. It is a tale of resilience, intuitio…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) presented by Teatro Grattacielo at La Mama's basement theater received a resounding ovation on Friday, and for good reason. A strong cast supp…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2025
New York Theatre Company's revival of Machinal at New York City Center Theatre 2 is an extraordinary, revelatory dissection of a play about patriarchy and repression, as relevant today as wh…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:34PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
There's nothing like watching two gifted, experienced performers " and good friends " enjoying themselves as they share their talent with an audience. Adam Pascal and Andrew Rapp have re…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:14PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
I honestly don't quite know how to describe Bear Grease. It's a musical theater / night club act / low comedy / video show all jumbled into one. It has some really fun, but it's …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:50PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
In 1881 a small band of Black laundresses decided they'd had enough of being pushed around by dead-beat clients, and despite having little perceived leverage, went on strike for better pay.�…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Maddie: A New Musical, at the Players Theatre, based on Jack Finney's novel "Marion's Wall" about the life of silent film actress Marion Marsh, promises a tale of second chances and mystery.…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
It's love! It's love! Wonderful Town has brought joy to the City Center stage " and boy do we need it. Someone, please take this show to Broadway! Eileen (an effervescent Aisha …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2025
There's nothing more fun than watching a musical about creating a musical. Â Â We all love a peek behind the curtain, indulging in a certain schadenfreude as we experience the agony and …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:49PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2025
College Fun, a witty send-up of buzzword culture, is a diverting one act farce that immerses us in the frustrating world of obfuscation and apology that is modern "communication."Â It rev…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:32PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2024
What would happen if we all told the truth?  Would we find our way to each other any more effectively than we do now, with our caution, peeking from behind our defenses, communicating…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2024
In Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, intellect and emotion travel in parallel in a subtle build that takes everyone by surprise. Mrs. Stern is the philosopher Hannah Arendt, on…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Kafkaesque! currently playing at Theatre 154 celebrates the laugh riot that is Kafka's oevre, particularly his finest creation, Gregor Samsa. In an amazing feat of alchemy (Kafka would a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
How do you define 'trauma?' Is it Pain? Fear? Desperation? Doubt? For the characters In Ashes & Ink it's all of that and more. They wrestle with undercurrent of t…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
From the Burne-Jone-esque promotional photo I thought Honeyland was going to be a nostalgic, romantic, perhaps insightful musical representation of 1960's counterculture. I'm sorry to sa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
In a special performance at Birdland on September 30th, celebrated lyricist Bill Russell showcased some of his most famous songs from his long career. Â Â Lean and vibrant, Russell burst…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2024
BalletX brought its unique brand of contemporary ballet to the Joyce Theater last week. In a program of three ballets, these excellent dancers moved effortlessly among diverse dance and …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:25PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
A woman walked into a theater ...
and lost her mind. In the best way possible.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:45PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
In Vile Isle, currently playing at the Tank, a beautiful Drag Diva prophet of doom presides over chaos as a flood of Biblical proportions threatens humanity, sending four men on a …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:46AM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
The Meeting: The Interpreter, purports to examine issues of identity and individual freedom in the face of government's impersonal, all-powerful machinery. Sadly, the play fails to communic…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
Pilobolus, the storied, avant-garde dance company formed in 1971 by three inquisitive Dartmouth students has evolved into a major driver of change in the dance world -- and for good reason.�…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2024
The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon (Las Dedicadas Lágrimas de la Luna Menguante), inspired by true events of historical human rights violations in Venezuela is heartfelt and heart-r…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:11PM[SHARE] 
