Thursday, October 26, 2023
Logic tells us Marilyn Maye, at 95, must be on the way down. But the way she works a room, it feels like up to me.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:36PMBig Bird is not part of this musical, but the other mainstay characters more than make up for it. Cookie Monster eats the set. The Count counts. Elmo dances up a storm. And Bert and …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:12PMFriday, October 20, 2023
Each character that Page gives us is a marvel of precision, execution and the flame of human spirit that connects us all.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:09PMIn this show his musicianship is out in front. He begins at the piano, gliding through his earlier years. After a bit he is joined by Nick Blaemire and Ethan Slater on guitar, piano and …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:00PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
as the play concludes Rebeck drops us off in the neighborhood near where the story started. Where truth was a bargaining chip. Curiosity was the coinage of the realm. And possibility w…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:30PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
This play is not a walk in the park. It is a running of the gauntlet. Both these characters are playing a high stakes game, and because of the combination of writing, direction and perfo…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:00PMMonday, September 18, 2023
By Tulis McCall Let me tell you something about Lin Shaye This woman has worked. A lot. Since 1975 when she had a small role in Hester Street, she has worked steadily in film and te…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 07:30PMFriday, September 1, 2023
With a title like "Pay The Writer" you might think that this is a play about just that, or about the tension between wirters and, well, everyone else. You would be wrong.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:47PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
What is so remarkable about "Let's Call Her Patty" at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is that it is unremarkable.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:29PMThe ideas in this play are not new, but they are newly laid out. And of course in this political climate of fake news and lies as truths they are still relevant.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:41AMFriday, July 28, 2023
OK THIS goes on my FAVORITES list. When Edelman drops us off at the final bus stop you realize we have doubled back around to the beginning. He leaves us where he found us, except we are t…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:09PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
One person shows that are biographical are always a bid dodgy. For one thing, the author has to come up with a reason for the character onstage to be talking at all - because the character i…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:26PMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Watching O’Hara and D’Arcy James in "Days of Wine And Roses" is both thrilling and exhausting. These two thoroughbreds navigate this difficult and overwritten score with grace and self…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:25PMFriday, May 26, 2023
... a new block of tickets for the nine-time Tony Award nominated new musical, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, are now available for performances through Sunday, January 14, 2024
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:44PMThere are several ways for a man to deal with a childhood trauma. He might seek out psychotherapy. He could delve into meditation. Or, if he is Kenneth, the central character in Eboni Booth�…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:01AMSaturday, May 13, 2023
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SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:41PMFriday, April 28, 2023
2023 CHITA RIVERA AWARD NOMINATIONS BROADWAY OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY IN A BROADWAY SHOW Steven Hoggett, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot Susan…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:26PM2023 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS Outstanding Play A Case for the Existence of God, by Samuel D. Hunter, Signature Theatre Fat Ham, by James Ijames, The Public Theater and National Black Theatre L…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:48PMThursday, April 27, 2023
Theatre is a temple. We go there to open our hearts and let them be touched by someone or something unexpected. We willingly place ourselves in a seat and hope for the best. With "New …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:54AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
This is a hodge-podge of disappointing writing and direction. Levant is a person I saw on many a movie screen - THAT guy I cared about.
This Levant - not so much.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:10PMSaturday, April 22, 2023
Everybody performed with grace and commitment. For whatever reason I did not feel much more than interested. This, as I have said many times, is part of the magic of the arts and particu…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:36PMThursday, April 20, 2023
Today's catastrophe becomes yesterday's property in an instant. We are bombarded with information that most of us neither need nor want with the result that what should be remembered and hel…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:29PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
By Tulis McCall I don’t know where to begin. More than once duing the performance of “White Girl In Danger” by Michael R. Jackson my guest and I looked at one another and said, “What…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:33PMFriday, April 14, 2023
This production is "Camelot Light" which is too bad because at its core it is a universal tale of how hope can become calamity and still not surrender. It is a noble tale that deserves a n…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:55AMThursday, April 13, 2023
There is something to be said for two guys - Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro - aided in no small part by their musical director Henry Koperski - having fun. Just plain fun. Serious fun. And…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:00PMSunday, March 26, 2023
At 95, Maye is an explosion of joy tempered with a touch of sarcasm and voice that is like velvet and knows where to lead us.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:10PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
It's not that I feel precious about original scripts. I recently saw "A Doll's House" and thought Amy Herzog did a masterful job of doing just enough to mold the script into a new incarnat…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:27PMSunday, March 19, 2023
The human elements of alcoholism and its control of life can be harsh, and many of us have experienced interactions with those who abuse. Man breaks into an angry rant about society in Ameri…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:30PMFriday, March 17, 2023
When Nora finally stands up on her own two feet, when she gives the final final, it feels as if we have all ben given permission to breathe, and, if we choose, permission to walk out into th…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:57PMSo yes - if you want your spirits lifted by music and a band of mighty performers - get thee to this show. The story may be sad but somehow you will se through it to the glory.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:35AM 
