Monday, March 18, 2024
John Patrick Shanley wasn't kidding when he titled this play "Doubt A Parable" Â There is more theorizing and speculation thrown around here than a person can grab in one go-round. Â As …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
The Effect has given us a huge gymnasium into which we are invited to play, engage, risk, contemplate, judge, experiment, and be our wild selves. Â All from the comfort of our seats. Â T…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
"Dead Outlaw", now at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre is a deceptive cuss of a show. What appears as a simple tale of varmints, thieves and outlaws is anything but.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 29, 2024
I don't know what you have planned for this weekend, but if you have not seen this gorgeous Encores! production of "Jelly's Last Jam" at City Center - I suggest you rethink whatever you have…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2024
 The story takes place in September and early October of 2023 on an unidentified college campus.  "Early October" being the operative phrase here, because it takes place before October…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2024
Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) and her son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch) have what could be referred to as a strained relationship. Â Strained to the point of busting wide open except for the fact tha…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:45PM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2024
"The Connector" now at MCC Theatre is an innocuous bit of fluff that has great ambitions and little structure. Â What it does have is a spectacular cast who tell this tale with as much gus…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Ms. Pirnot sings 4 or 5 songs, each amplified differently, almost as if they were daring us to doubt our attention to this detail. In between, the stories are told by the text-to-speech gizm…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2024
Gancher's writing is mesmerizing and brave. Â This is gorgeous ensemble, directed with skill and grace. Â The result? A production that says, " Put on your Big Person Pants and get over …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2024
a comprehensive Fellowship Program, dedicated to building and strengthening the Broadway employment pipeline by engaging and employing individuals from historically overlooked communities to…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
The brilliance of this piece starts with Ruby Thomas's writing. Â She approaches this family much like a zoologist might approach a small rare creature, with a soft glove on one hand and a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:56PM[SHARE]From a review of Chita Rivera's Café Carlyle show 2017. "Chita Rivera doesn't just take the stage at Café Carlyle. She hoists it over her shoulder and walks off with it.  Rivera is…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Somewhere in the flotsam and jetsam of the holiday I forgot to pay special tribute to Lynn Henderson who performed "There's A Little Starch Left" - her new one woman show - in December at Do…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:56PM[SHARE]Once Upon A Mattress at Encores is a ton and a half of pure joy. Â And Sutton Foster is at the center of it, using her crystal voice. lungs of iron, comedic timing. Â Foster is a combina…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:28PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2024
There are secrets being spilled here.  These are the stories women tell each other in private.  In this production Chris Henry and Lorna Ventura  have pulled the women and every one…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
This might sound fussy but watching a play that should give us the musicality of Brian Friel's work, but does not, because the Irish accents are either missing altogether or fleeting at best…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
As it is, the story ends much as it began, two old lovers nattering at one another. Â Not much to see there.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:10PM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2023
Marilyn Maye at Birdland -- Maye is a happy woman. Genuinely down to the bottom of those cute shoes she is happy. This is not Pollyanna happy. This is "I have a right to be happy…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:05PM[SHARE]Friday, December 22, 2023
You could do worse than take a trip with this observant guide. ... We are, like the dogs we own, here to love and serve. Â And that is about all the guarantee Bloom can offer. Â Not a ba…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:08PM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2023
Let me tell you something about puppetry - it is magic. Â It is a magic that is often superior to acting because a puppeteer embues an object with life. Â So it is life times two. Â No…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:47PM[SHARE]Buena Vista Social Club, now playing at the Atlantic Theater Company to riotous approval by every audience, is a bout as uplifting a show as you can get.
Only one problem - the producers …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2023
By Tulis McCall So.  Right off the bat you will know that the seven actors featured in "How To Dance In Ohio" who  play autistic teenagers are real life people with autism.  They te…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2023
By Tulis McCall "Manahatta", now at the Public Theater, is a snappy and disturbing play that will make you reconsider Manhattan, whether or not you want to  "Manahatta" in Lenape means "L…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2023
Every track on this album draws inspiration from composers who themselves have been torchbearers of the classic standards"artists like Michael Feinstein, Harry Connick, Jr., John Pizza…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2023
Watching "Scene Partners" by John J. Caswell, Jr. at the Vineyard Theatre felt like an out of body experience. Â I was watching something, but I had no idea what it was.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
Seems as though there are three sets of people in the world. Â The first group knows all about Alicia Keys and has been following her for decades. Â The second group wouldn't know her if…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2023
A pause here to praise these six actors. Â They are astonishing in their talent, their enthusiasm and their commitment to every moment they are on stage. Â They dance, sing, become puppe…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:04PM[SHARE]We meet Harry as a young man who remembers being robbed of his earnings as a messenger for the rag business. Â As an adult, when faced with eviction, Harry steps on the wrong treadmill and…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
Aber walks us through a variety of methods she uses to defeat the PTSD that has built up over the past four January episodes and makes her terrified of being seen. Â At the same time, bein…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2023
Logic tells us Marilyn Maye, at 95, must be on the way down. Â But the way she works a room, it feels like up to me.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:36PM[SHARE]Big Bird is not part of this musical, but the other mainstay characters more than make up for it. Â Cookie Monster eats the set. Â The Count counts. Â Elmo dances up a storm. Â And B…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:12PM[SHARE] 
