Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Kenny Leon lands his 28 member multiracial cast down in a version of Grover’s Corners that is futuristic in its inclusiveness; a world that is a wish, where interracial romance is de rigue…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:16PMMonday, September 30, 2024
You may not leave the theater teary-eyed but your brain will be bursting with ideas inspired by this meaty think piece.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:15PMFriday, September 27, 2024
With breakneck pacing and powerful performances from its two leads, Fatherland rips the bandage off a wounded moment in our history. It’s supposed to hurt less that way, but it doesn’t.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:42AMSunday, September 22, 2024
The Beacon takes its time navigating the troubled waters stirred up by a foursome who come together on an island off the coast of West Cork only to realize they are better off apart.
The pos…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:20PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
It is not every Off-Broadway musical that boasts a chorus of 12 real-life healthcare professionals. Then again, it is unlikely there has ever been a musical quite as concerned with antibioti…
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A high energy romp with many a guilty pleasure.
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So winningly sung and so lovingly directed one cannot help but be wooed by its charms, despite a final scene that is so never in doubt.
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Mandatory viewing for anyone who wants to be an actor, or a clown, or a time traveler, or a human in touch with humanity.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:15PMMonday, July 1, 2024
How do you proceed with a romantic comedy after a tragedy intervenes? The answer is, you don’t.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 07:25PMMonday, June 17, 2024
Dark Noon ignores nothing as it takes stock of the evils embraced by those who built the Wild West, and lays bare the lasting scars.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:24PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Sarah Street brings a quiet dignity to the complicated role of Molly, a character who is strongly independent even as she succumbs to the will of others and marries “for no very good reaso…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Loneliness is not the problem for the discouraged band members who sing out their troubles in MCC Theater’s dynamic rock musical, The Lonely Few. Indeed, most of them can hardly find a mom…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:01PMMonday, February 12, 2024
Nourished by Corinne Jaber’s sharp writing and Lee Sunday Evans’ sensitive direction, this production makes the most out of isolating its players. It serves to effectively express the lo…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:15PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
The pleasures of the Broadway revival of Spamalot are three in number. Three shall be the number thou shall count and the number of the counting shalt be three.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:34PMMonday, November 20, 2023
Mind Mangler conjures up a sad loser who fails magnificently at his craft, cracking up the audience while gaining their sympathy along the way.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:28AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Playwright Owen Panettieri sticks three jittery oddballs in a haunted house and leaves it to the audience to decide who among them is the biggest victim, the worst tormenter, the most insane.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PMFriday, October 6, 2023
The employees of Jaja’s each have their own ways of living with this danger. Bioh intertwines their tales, director Whitney White shapes the action into a tight thing of beauty and the ens…
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Close-up magic accounts for about a third of the production’s 90 minutes and is never less than spectacular.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:00PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
It turns out that the sense and sensibilities of Jane Austen can be neatly showcased in a sequence of country-western ballads, played on the banjo and written by a long-haired young man from…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:30PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Adapted from their true banger of a bio film of the same name, writers Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson again conspire to cage intense musicality within the true life story of Terri Hooley…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:42PMA short but sweet set of old favorites, tinged with country music and seasoned with a dash of Smash.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:35PMFriday, May 12, 2023
Khan!!! The Musical! crazily, but cleverly, goes where no multi-racial, multi-talented, multi-species cast has gone before.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:54PMMonday, February 27, 2023
In this comically surreal reimagining of the Lizzie Borden story, the playwriting team of Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deborah Knox have more on their minds than just homicide by hatchet. They dis…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:48PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
This decidedly dark drama chronicles the lives of five emotionally damaged Idahoans who spend their days working at an art supply store and their nights pensively seeking some sort of salvat…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:00PMMonday, February 13, 2023
You can’t have a proper celebration of film noir music without a murder, so it is fortunate that Melissa Errico kills during her cinematic and sultry concert
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:31PMFriday, January 27, 2023
A work that meditates on a heart aneurysm, cancer and the specter of AIDS, but finds joy in a son’s love and an actor’s big break.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:29PMThursday, January 26, 2023
Mellamphy’s assured, charismatic performance, and clear gift of gab, makes Tim an engaging and all too relatable anti-hero who finds his way to success via a series of questionably justifi…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:15PMTuesday, December 6, 2022
This risky production could have been holy hell, but director Annie Tippe and an enthusiastic cast clearly have faith in Julia May Jonas’s religious service of a script, making believers o…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:05PMMonday, November 21, 2022
Wedded bliss. Marital splendor. Joyful union. Matrimony hath many the happy descriptor. But, in 1918, for a budding 18-year-old playwright named Noël Coward, marriage was The Rat Trap.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:01PMFriday, November 18, 2022
Evanston, IL seems an unlikely spot to serve as the frozen, dark epicenter of suicidal thoughts and vanished pasts. But for Peter, a salt truck driver, and his co-worker Basil, its icy roads…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:44PMSunday, November 6, 2022
The work brings fresh urgency to the 1980’s aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution, when young citizens experimented with forgoing the Communist Party in favor of the cocktail party,
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