1,508 stories from The Front Row Center
Evanston, IL seems an unlikely spot to serve as the frozen, dark epicenter of suicidal thoughts and vanished pasts. But for Peter, a salt truck driver, and his co-worker Basil, its icy roads…
While the collaboration between pop energy and emotional storytelling serves as a fun punch-line, most songs did little to further the emotional journey after one's initial joy of recognizin…
Tracy Thorne writes and performs a powerful monologue about keeping secrets.
Steve Martin is multi-talented beyond compare, and what better way to showcase his life's memories illustrated by the engaging artwork of Harry Bliss on display in Number One is Walking, sur…
The rich baritone voice of raconteur Frank Zilinyi launched Radiotheatre's deliciously macabre exordium of The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street, a dark, spellbinding tale of New York City hist…
Everything old is new again in East Side After Dark at the Café Carlyle. In their return engagement at Café Carlyle, cabaret (and husband and wife) team John Pizzarelli and Jessica Mol…
In addition to not remembering the piece on second viewing, I'm disappointed to admit that (upon rereading my review) the same issues rung true and that even upon a second viewing with a dif…
Blake Allen's Insomnia is a cerebral, enigmatic, and mystifying artistic creation chronicling a night of an insomniac narrator. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Sleep and Waking" …
It's a rich play that can be seen several times and still not reveal all of its nuances.
This is the story of how Sayet has become a magnet for Native American stories and is now a walking compendium of this knowledge. Â She is spreading the word as fast as she can. Â This i…
"A Man of No Importance" is a musical where you can sit back, relax, and as the saying goes "let them entertain you."
Benjamin Franklin the man emerged as a frowzy, flawed, and crafty roué, relentlessly attempting to seduce the married Mme Brillon. Franklin deftly engaged and modified his façon de parle…
This is Broadway musical extraordinaire!
This play is titled Chester Bailey, but it should be titled Philip Cotton.Â
Maestro Botstein and The Orchestra Now demonstrated their capacity to express powerful rich intones, frenetic fugatos, and exquisite, intense subtleties.
The work brings fresh urgency to the 1980's aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution, when young citizens experimented with forgoing the Communist Party in favor of the cocktail party,
Wendel's songs are strikingly original, expressive, and extraordinarily inventive. His ideas and improvisations are freely chromatic, virtuosic, and organic, and he employed subtle be-bop id…
not on par with the material
This cast deserves high praise for maintaining the challenging, complex characters and tensions while also charming and engaging viewers who could not resist being sympathetic and moved. The…
In Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, we see a story unfold before us like faded memories providing fragments of truth as father and son piece together their independent yet irrevocably conne…
Joan Didion's award-winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking is brought to life by the masterful talent of Kathleen Chalfant. She captures the very essence of Didion's pain over the death…
One of those plays where if you get distracted for one moment, you'll miss a gem of a line.
The performance of Mozart's Requiem, K526, was glorious and ecstatic. The sui generis admixture of rich sounds from soloists, chorus, and orchestra was superb. At the same time, the sumptuou…
Two short plays by pioneering Black author Alice Childress provide an especially nuanced look at the lives of Black women during and after the Jim Crow era.
A good assembly of talent at one of New York's loveliest theaters.
