Friday, March 28, 2025
Every time I see Charles Busch perform I realize that I am exactly where i want to be. In his audience. Busch has that effect on people. He pulls us in. It is no accident. It is magi…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:36PMThursday, March 27, 2025
In Dorian Gray, Snook reveals herself to be a a spectacular actor whose work is impeccable.
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By Tulis McCall It is 1964 in Harlem. 1964 was a year in which Martin Luther King’s sun was on the rise. This was the state of things when Alice Childress ripped the Band Aid off and wrote…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:06PMFriday, March 21, 2025
"Purpose" is a sprawling tale that collects plot points like a dark cashmere coat collects lint.... Jacobs-Jenkins has pulled back the curtain on more than just one family. The finger poin…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:55PMThursday, March 20, 2025
David Mills is nothing if not charming. His is an eclectic presentation that depends on the weather, the current state of affairs (dismal and frightening) and who shows up to be entertaine…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:18PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
... two women are connected to a graveyard in Philadelphia. Their presence spans centuries, beginning with 1832 and ending with the present. This is an intriguing premise that, if nothin…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:12PMThursday, March 6, 2025
By Tulis McCall What kept running through my head as I watched New Group‘s “Curse Of The Starving Class” at The Pershing Square Signature Center was: “This is a whackadoodle play.�…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:33PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
This contemporary tale is a smorgasbord of ideas that will accompany you for a long, long time. It stands on its own with no apologies. Bravo.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:15PMFriday, February 21, 2025
The title of this show, "Redwood", is singular, not plural. We normally refer to this wonder of the natural world in the plural. "The Redwoods," we say. Here the title refers to one Re…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:39PMThursday, February 20, 2025
by Tulis McCall There are any number of reasons why you should get yourself over to “Liberation” by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White at Roundabout Theatre Company. First of all,…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:15PMFriday, February 14, 2025
Join us to revel in the midsummer madness at the Delacorte Theater as twins Sebastian and Viola survive shipwreck, revenge plots, and the trick doors of love.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:54PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Theatre isn't meant to makes us all feel better. It is to take us feel, period. Antiquities does that and then some.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:02PMEnglish is must-see theater. An expertly written, thought-provoking examination of the relationship between language and identity (and so much more), beautifully acted and sensitively dir…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:28PMThursday, February 6, 2025
Respectfully, I submit that listening to these stories is not inspiring. Rarely funny in a deep way. That they are based on true stories I believe. The undercurrent, however, is that …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:15PMShe shoots from the hip without favoritism. Which is why the second scene works so well. Gilbert and Moses are fine partners who know how to thread the needle of relationships and poli…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:15PMFriday, January 24, 2025
If you already know Gary Gulman, and from the sound of my fellow audience members last weekend 99% of them DID, you will be over the moon for this show. If you ar not familiar you will s…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:51PMFriday, January 10, 2025
This Rose doesn't travel alone. She takes us into the dungeon of her passionate loneliness and drags us with her when she pulls herself back into the light out of sheer force of will - jus…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:32PMFriday, December 20, 2024
The Broadway comedy “Oh, Mary!” will welcome a new title player. Three-time Emmy Award nominee Betty Gilpin will take over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln for an eight-week limited engagem…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:55PMBy Tulis McCall When I was in fifth grade my class was assigned Pen Pals who lived in England and were students from a town with the same name as ours. Once I got over the shock of the fac…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:31PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
By Tulis McCall “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.” Churchill said this about Russia in 1939. Amazing how quotes like that never run…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:01PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
By Tulis mcCall The cast of Bedlam‘s “Music CIty” does not give you a chance to not fall in love with them. Not one ounce of a chance. If you get your butt in a seat in this cozy t…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:46PMThursday, November 21, 2024
As a whole, this production is a bit of a jumble. Staging is awkward, dialogue overlaps and is easily missed, and the story wanders.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:15PMMonday, October 28, 2024
Dear Reader - In the interest of full disclosure I am writing to let you know that The Front Row Center will not be reviewing "In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot" because I, Tulis McCall, a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:45PMFriday, August 16, 2024
These actors did everything they could to lift this play up. Their timing was spot on. They were invested in the story and the text. There were moments of delicious black humor, moments of…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:49PMThursday, August 8, 2024
If you are a fan of either Adam Pascal or Anthony Rapp or have seen the musical RENT more than once - this is a show intended for your very person.
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:56PMMonday, August 5, 2024
It is a good thing that JOB, by Max Wolfe Friedlich, is at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The Hayes is next to Sardi's. Sardi's upstairs is where you want to go after you see this show because…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:24PMSaturday, July 27, 2024
Watching Oh Mary! is like catching a ride on a runaway stage coach - with no less than six horses.... Cole Escola has created a Mary who is Scarlett O'Hara on uppers. This Mary is at the c…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:55AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Let me say right off the bat that these actors are doing the best they can. The text they have to work with, however, combined with an absence of directorial guidance sends them off the ra…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:15PMThursday, July 11, 2024
... like catching a ride on a runaway stage coach - with no less than six horses.... Escola has created a Mary who is Scarlett O'Hara on uppers. This Mary is at the center of her own unive…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:15PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
Emmy® Award Winner Theatre World® Award Winner HOLLAND TAYLOR ANA VILLAFAÑE Star in the World Premiere Play N/A By MARIO CORREA Directed by DIANE PAULUS No…
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