Tuesday, October 10, 2023
An admirable goal and lofty subject matter, Christopher Tajah's's solo show about systemic racism and violence takes on a difficult, timely subject but alas doesn't help us to shed any parti…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:06AMMonday, September 18, 2023
Swing State is unique in that it is a political play that is not overtly political. Focusing on the human, the play sets out the emotional terrain on which ideologies and preconceptions ca…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:28PMFriday, September 1, 2023
Masha King takes on the role of Helena Weinrauch in this astonishing one-woman show. She is riveting in her portrayal of a woman reliving the dreadful years of World War II during which sh…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:45AMIn the Public Theater's musical adaptation of The Tempest, currently running at the Delacorte Theater, Shakespeare’s convoluted story of betrayal, revenge and love has been condensed into …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:41AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
I don't know if it's the direction or the writing -- or both, but The Half-God of Rainfall does not fare well, despite a fine cast and brilliant set design. The material is so clearly in lo…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:01PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
Flex, at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater, is a play about friendship, ambition and hope, as played out in the fiercely competitive world of sport. It is 1997 and the nascent WNBA has given femal…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:31PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
Ballet Hispánico, where have you been all my life? Where have I been? This is a true blue dance company, and future performances are on my ‘must see’ list. The Company demonstrates …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:01AMFallen Angels, written in 1925, centers on the competition of two women over the same old flame. (scandale!) Each is not-so-silently convinced that she was the one he loved more. A Cow…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:57AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
I saw Wet Brain and lived to tell the tale. A story of one family’s relationship to addiction, the play barrels its way through a tangle of emotional damage in a claustrophobic marathon …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:03PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Monsoon Wedding, the Musical is an absolute delight. Bursting with color, dance and lots and lots of marigolds, it's the kind of musical that reminds you why it's so much fun to go to thea…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:50PMFriday, May 19, 2023
Women's Voices" paid tribute to the work of women in the arts, including excerpts from ballets created by women, and a panel discussion, in which Artistic Director and choreographer Kathryn …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 07:32AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
In his diaries Beaton bares his teeth more than his soul, choosing to belittle lesser mortals and excoriate in private those whom he had to endure in public. He maintains the façade of the…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:51PMThursday, April 20, 2023
In a flurry of energetic percussion, daring brass and beguiling strings, the various ensembles shone, performing in several styles, from a pure classical sound, through old school jazz with …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:55PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
In her one woman show Yes, I Can Say That!, Judy Gold shoots from the hip, right across our collective bow, in an impassioned wake-up call to remind us what 'free speech' means. And of how …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:53PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
First there was Ernest, now there is Frank. The Rewards of Being Frank, at the ART/New York Theatre, a sequel to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest, is a delightful and much need…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:02AMMonday, February 27, 2023
black odyssey at the Classic Stage is a brilliant voyage into a world of myth and mystery. At once epic and intimate, the play follows the hazardous journey of Ulysses as he searches for a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:31PMFriday, February 17, 2023
I wanted to like Cornelia Street more than I did, especially because I loved the actual café. Alas, the musical left me a little cold. It feels clumsy, as if it is trying to be too many…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:43PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
In this solo concert, Nathalie Lermitte personifies Edith Piaf without doing an impression or imitation. Rather, Lermotte has internalized the spirit of Piaf’s specialty, the chanson ré…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:10PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
In The Far Country, playwright Lloyd Suh explores how far someone will go, and how far away you will travel, in search of what you hope will be a better life -- and how that voyage can compl…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:14PMMonday, November 21, 2022
In her delightfully irreverent play The Patient Gloria, Gina Moxley takes aim at those preconceptions, joyously dissecting patriarchy with in-your-face abadon. Brilliant, funny and subervi…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:29PMSandra is a marathon feat of storytelling, following the footsteps of a woman who risks everything in service of a friend, who has apparently disappeared while on a trip to Mexico. As the m…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:45PMFriday, November 11, 2022
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 Molas…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:36AMFriday, October 28, 2022
Wuthering Heights has gotten a makeover at St. Ann's Warehouse in a production that blows across the stage like a tempest on the moors. Imaginative and visually stimulating, with beautiful …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:20PMThe more I think about it the more I love this production. It's visually striking, beautifully acted and deeply affecting. Previously to me the play has been more of a jagged little pill, …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:15PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Funny, complex, startling, engrossing -- Chekhov's First Play in the hands the brilliantly creative minds at Dead Centre, is a whoopee, let your hair down theatrical experience. You must s…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:45PMFriday, October 21, 2022
Backed by her childhood band, "The Secrets of the Vatican" (in reality her multi-talented musical director Julie Wolf, and two members of the all-female rock trio "Antigone Rising," Nini Cam…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 05:22PMFriday, October 14, 2022
Shelley Cooper conveys Callas’s innate elegance and theatricality. She wisely does not attempt to impersonate Callas; rather she delves into La Divina’s soul, embodying the singer in p…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:40PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Impassioned and well intentioned, this spare production of 1776 benefits from the talents of a strong cast, but eventually suffers from the production’s desire to Get Its Point Across. Yo…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:14AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
The evening had a breezy quality -- a little Sondheim here, some Joni Mitchell there, a touch of Rodgers and Hart, and even a dash of Paul Simon. It is as if Ms. Buckley is rooting around i…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:32PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
I am sure I am missing something, but reading the many words of praise for this play, extolling its beauty and otherworldly, paradigm shifting style, I have to wonder if I saw the same show …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:35PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Two cosmologists and particle physicist get on a train…
Strings Attached explores the softer side of physics, in its various intersections of thought and emotion, science and faith, r…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:38PM 
