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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

N/A EXTENDS RUN THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 by Tulis McCall

Emmy® Award Winner          Theatre World® Award Winner HOLLAND TAYLOR         ANA VILLAFAÑE Star in the World Premiere Play N/A By MAR…

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

N/A by Tulis McCall

This is a brilliant production. Engaging, intriguing script and actors who achieve perfection. "N/A" is not only ABOUT politics, it will immerse you in politics. Sounds like not fun? Au …

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Josh Thomas " Let's Tidy Up by Tulis McCall

Thomas leaps onto the stage chattering as only a Brit or an Aussie can do and be understood.  The velocity of his speech is staggering and so funny you might with for him to slow down. …

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Friday, June 21, 2024

If These Wigs Could Talk " by Panti Bliss " DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW by Tulis McCall

This show is a call to arms backed up by some hilarious and captivating stories.  This is not a casual wig discussion.  Drag queens, Bliss reminds us, refuse to be invisible.  Drag …

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Friday, June 14, 2024

Home by Tulis McCall

HOME will give you hope.  Something we could all use, yes?

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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The Welkin by Tulis McCall

... the entire cast is all most always onstage and each is alive with their own lives and emotions.  This is no group of shrinking violets.  These are our ancestors on whom our surviva…

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

ONE NIGHT ONLY " June 13 Matt Williams and @onefunnylisamarie by Tulis McCall

  Matt Williams, creator of Home Improvement, and Rosanne in converstion with @onefunnylisamarie and her incredibly relatable humor. at the SHEEN CENTER About Glimpses: Welcome to Glimpse…

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All Of Me by Tulis McCall

This is a play that sneaks up on you over and over again.  This production shines.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

What Became Of Us by Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCall First of all, "What Became Of Us," now at Atlantic Stage 2, will make you respect the heck out of actors as story tellers.  That is what Shayan Lofti has created " one lon…

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CASHINO " Pepper Cole and Johnny Niagra (Mosher and Boswell) at Birdland by Tulis McCall

... this is a duo that cannot be pigeon-holed.  It is part rodeo, part carnival, part jamboree.  With a bunch of rockin' music and lines so funny your laughs may become barks.

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Friday, May 24, 2024

CASHINO with Pepper Cole and Johnny NIagra " at Birdland by Tulis McCall

... this is a duo that cannot be pigeon-holed.  It is part rodeo, part carnival, part jamboree.  With a bunch of rockin' music and lines so funny your laughs may become barks.... You h…

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Laura Benanti ~ Nobody Cares by Tulis McCall

Benanti is just the way we like here: talented and chock-a-block full of surprises that will make youolaugh so hard you will bark.  I didi. And I can't wait for the enxt incarnation.

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

John Lloyd Young at Café Carlyle by Tulis McCall

John Lloyd Young likes to sing, and lucky for us he will be doing that at Café Carlyle through May 18.   If you are looking for a night out walking down memory lane - this is the place …

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Monday, May 13, 2024

Here There Are Blueberries by Tulis McCall

Who were these smiling people relaxing in deck chairs, sitting at dining tables, gathering on a hillside to exchange pleasantries.  Who were those girls with the commandant and why were t…

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Friday, May 3, 2024

Mother Play by Tulis McCall

Yipes - there is so much packed into this title.  Notice it is not "THE Mother Play."  It is "Mother Play" As such it is a full blown noun.   For me,  however, this story is D…

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

2016 Marilyn Maye Interview " by Betsyann Faiella " Revisited by Tulis McCall

"This is a thoroughbred bounding out of the gate brandishing a mane of roman candles." - Tulis McCall, The Front Row Center I'm moved to say this was not a comeback, because she wasn't…

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Old Friends AGAIN by Tulis McCall

This show sentimental,  heartbreaking, hilarious and intimate.  It would be easy to dismiss on the surface as an evening by, about and for older folks.  Au contraire matey.   Â�…

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Friday, April 26, 2024

STILL by Tulis McCall

Lia Romeo does not let us sit on our laurels and watch the story we expect.  Oh no.  She leads us down the primrose path and pulls the proverbial rug out from under us.  

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Uncle Vanya by Tulis McCall

...what we have here is a collection of people who are disappointed to the point of being annoying.  Chekhov has tossed them all together into one pot of luke warm water.  In addition,…

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Suffs by Tulis McCall

First of all the term is "Suffragist" not "Suffragette".  A Suffragist is a person who demands suffrage (the right to vote) for everyone.  Suffragette is a derogatory term created to t…

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club by Tulis McCall

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 past…

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Sally & Tom by Tulis McCall

Parks 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 …

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Scarlett Dreams by Tulis McCall

By 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 t…

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Friday, April 12, 2024

Marilyn Maye Birthday Celebration @54 Below by Tulis McCall

Having 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…

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Monday, April 1, 2024

STALKER by Tulis McCall

This 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.

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Grief Hotel by Tulis McCall

There 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 …

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Friday, March 22, 2024

The Notebook by Tulis McCall

I'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. Â�…

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Leslie Uggams at 54 Below by Tulis McCall

Uggams 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 int…

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Enemy Of The People by Tulis McCall

There 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…

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Doubt " A Parable by Tulis McCall

John 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 …

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