It is Bebe Neuwirth who delivers the nut of the story at the eleventh hour. Everything else leading up to this moment is spectacle. A beautifully executed spectacle. A puff pastry tha…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:45PMParks does not permit us to go gently into that good night. She will not leave us sitting comfortably in our own upstanding ignorance. Like Jefferson she stands at the "intersection of t…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:45PMBy Stanford Friedman The ancient myth of Pandora’s box explains how all things evil came into the world when a lid was opened out of curiosity. S. Asher Gelman offers a futuristic twist on…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:15PMHaving seen Marilyn Maye many, many times for over a decade I know in advance there will be at least one point where she will leave me face down sobbing in my soup (should there be any aroun…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:57PMThis duo is the perfect combination of charm and danger. More than once they scrambled my brain and handed it back to me with a side of fries.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:15PMThere is a pattern that pops up from time in all of our lives. An event or a thing or a person is pronounced "swell". Occasionally we concur with the pronouncement, and occasionally we d…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:25PMI'm not that big a love fan myself. Onstage it can be clunky. Passion can be badly choreographed or altogether unbelievable. It can be too loud or too long or too sophomoric. It can …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:52PMUggams was a gift when she started out. That she remains an iconic performer says something about not only her talent, but her determination and drive. This is a woman who is not interes…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:36PMThere are a few staging surprises that work very well indeed. We are not merely observers. We are witnesses. This is "Right vs Might" and it is not news. The only hopeful note is Stock…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:15PMJohn Patrick Shanley wasn't kidding when he titled this play "Doubt A Parable" There is more theorizing and speculation thrown around here than a person can grab in one go-round. As the …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:42PMThe Effect has given us a huge gymnasium into which we are invited to play, engage, risk, contemplate, judge, experiment, and be our wild selves. All from the comfort of our seats. This …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:40PM"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: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:15PMI 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: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:29PMThe 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 7. …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:30PMMiriam (Cynthia Nixon) and her son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch) have what could be referred to as a strained relationship. Strained to the point of busting wide open except for the fact that …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 07:45PM"The Connector" now at MCC Theatre is an innocuous bit of fluff that has great ambitions and little structure. What it does have is a spectacular cast who tell this tale with as much gusto…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:31PMMs. 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: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:56PMGancher's writing is mesmerizing and brave. This is gorgeous ensemble, directed with skill and grace. The result? A production that says, " Put on your Big Person Pants and get over here…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:15PMa comprehensive Fellowship Program, dedicated to building and strengthening the Broadway employment pipeline by engaging and employing individuals from historically overlooked communities to…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:12PMThe brilliance of this piece starts with Ruby Thomas's writing. She approaches this family much like a zoologist might approach a small rare creature, with a soft glove on one hand and a p…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:56PMFrom 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 a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:29PMSomewhere 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: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:56PMOnce Upon A Mattress at Encores is a ton and a half of pure joy. And Sutton Foster is at the center of it, using her crystal voice. lungs of iron, comedic timing. Foster is a combination…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:28PMThere 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 of th…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:53PMThis 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: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PMAs it is, the story ends much as it began, two old lovers nattering at one another. Not much to see there.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:10PMMarilyn 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 and I…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:05PMYou could do worse than take a trip with this observant guide. ... We are, like the dogs we own, here to love and serve. And that is about all the guarantee Bloom can offer. Not a bad wa…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:08PMLet me tell you something about puppetry - it is magic. It is a magic that is often superior to acting because a puppeteer embues an object with life. So it is life times two. No fooli…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:47PMBuena 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: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:52PMBy 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 tell…
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