Friday, May 9, 2025
In the late hours of last Friday evening, along with many of our colleagues from across the arts sector, MCC Theater was informed that our FY25 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:38PMThursday, May 8, 2025
By Tulis McCall If you do not adore Sondheim – this could be the show that changes your mind. On the other hand, if you don’t LIKE Sondheim, you may be suffering from some heretofore u…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:34PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Whatever-the-heck "Pirates! The Penzance Musical" is trying to be, you can be assured that a good time is waiting for you in the French Quarter that never was.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:26PMMonday, April 28, 2025
You will carry this family and their associates with you. No matter your race or economic situation. In this tiny little shop in this tiny little family rests the whole world. Every ho…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMWhen the show is over and we leave because they make us leave, we are not mourning the very short life of Bobby Darin. Not even close. We are celebrating. We are high on the story of B…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
If Ryan J. Haddad's script for "Hold Me In The Water" were any more spare it would disappear. As a mater of fact, this enchanting piece already does that. This is a master class in turni…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:45PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
(New York, NY – April 22, 2025) Today, on the production’s seventh Broadway anniversary, producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child released a new video trailer illustrating the imme…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:03PMBy Tulis McCall Talk about circuitous journeys. Here is a question for you – where were you in 1994? Or 1996? Do you remember ANYTHING from those years. Well, if you are Tina Landa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:34PMThursday, April 10, 2025
Marilyn Maye's voice is like a caramel parfait with a touch of bourbon. She stretches notes and swirls the story around the entire room. No one is immune to her charm. Not nobody not…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:39PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
If you are inclined to see "All The Beauty In The World" - and it would be a worthwhile adventure - be aware that this is not a play by any definition. It is a more of a TED Talk. And it…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:20PMThursday, April 3, 2025
Clooney embraces Murrow completely. He has modified his own speech patterns to emulate Murrow - and oh how lovely it is to hear somone speak without an "um" or worse "LIKE" in the entire s…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:59PMFriday, 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: The Front Row Center 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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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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.
The post ON THE EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTION OF SHA…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center 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: The Front Row Center at 03:01PM 
