Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Trophy Boys is an investigation of gender both on and offstage. The Australian playwright Emmanuelle Mattana lays out the thesis that "Gender is learnt, which means it can also be taught."…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:15PMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Mr. Philip possesses a heart filled with Courage, Love and Hope that he happily shares with all of us with each song. We leave his show feeling uplifted. Who among us c old not use a l…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:04PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
By Tulis McCall Prince Faggot is a beguiling tragicomedy. “Beguiling” – I don’t often use that word, but it is the one that surfaced. Jordan Tannahill‘s play is a dense tapestry …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMThursday, June 12, 2025
Jean Smart is superb. Her performance is so smooth - even through rough bits - that she appears not to be acting at all. She simply transforms over and over again as she slips into each ch…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:15PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
"Angry Alan" is an earthquake of a production. It will lift you out of your lives, the way only extraordinary theatre can, and return you to them filled to the brim with the experience of …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:59PMThursday, June 5, 2025
The HA HA HA HA HA HA HA is not a laugh fest. It is a release and an invitation. To tell you exactly what she does would ruin the surprise so I will say that it is a slow reveal. Masli…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
...as mild mannered as the text was, Birney and Emery made us believe that these two were the real deal. As performers and characters their bond is mighty. And that, my friends, is prett…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMNjikam leaps onto the stage and into our hearts. You don't have a chance to deny him, because he is that slick. The deed is done before you realize it. S-L-I-C-K!
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMMonday, June 2, 2025
By Tulis McCall Red Bull’s “Imaginary Invalid” is a perfection of a confection that will soothe the blues we are all experiencing. I PROMISE it will make you laugh. It made me laug…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:15PMTuesday, May 20, 2025
There are moments when Hill's performance is so pure we would swear it was 1957 and the game was truly on. The game of survival, race, rage and madness. We are hurled back and forth by t…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:15PMFriday, May 9, 2025
In the late hours of last Friday evening, along with many of our colleagues from across the arts sector, MCC Theater was informed that our FY25 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:38PMThursday, May 8, 2025
By Tulis McCall If you do not adore Sondheim – this could be the show that changes your mind. On the other hand, if you don’t LIKE Sondheim, you may be suffering from some heretofore u…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:34PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Whatever-the-heck "Pirates! The Penzance Musical" is trying to be, you can be assured that a good time is waiting for you in the French Quarter that never was.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:26PMMonday, April 28, 2025
You will carry this family and their associates with you. No matter your race or economic situation. In this tiny little shop in this tiny little family rests the whole world. Every ho…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMWhen the show is over and we leave because they make us leave, we are not mourning the very short life of Bobby Darin. Not even close. We are celebrating. We are high on the story of B…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
If Ryan J. Haddad's script for "Hold Me In The Water" were any more spare it would disappear. As a mater of fact, this enchanting piece already does that. This is a master class in turni…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:45PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
(New York, NY – April 22, 2025) Today, on the production’s seventh Broadway anniversary, producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child released a new video trailer illustrating the imme…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:03PMBy Tulis McCall Talk about circuitous journeys. Here is a question for you – where were you in 1994? Or 1996? Do you remember ANYTHING from those years. Well, if you are Tina Landa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:34PMThursday, April 10, 2025
Marilyn Maye's voice is like a caramel parfait with a touch of bourbon. She stretches notes and swirls the story around the entire room. No one is immune to her charm. Not nobody not…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:39PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
If you are inclined to see "All The Beauty In The World" - and it would be a worthwhile adventure - be aware that this is not a play by any definition. It is a more of a TED Talk. And it…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:20PMThursday, April 3, 2025
Clooney embraces Murrow completely. He has modified his own speech patterns to emulate Murrow - and oh how lovely it is to hear somone speak without an "um" or worse "LIKE" in the entire s…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:59PMFriday, March 28, 2025
Every time I see Charles Busch perform I realize that I am exactly where i want to be. In his audience. Busch has that effect on people. He pulls us in. It is no accident. It is magi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:36PMThursday, March 27, 2025
In Dorian Gray, Snook reveals herself to be a a spectacular actor whose work is impeccable.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
By Tulis McCall It is 1964 in Harlem. 1964 was a year in which Martin Luther King’s sun was on the rise. This was the state of things when Alice Childress ripped the Band Aid off and wrote…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:06PMFriday, March 21, 2025
"Purpose" is a sprawling tale that collects plot points like a dark cashmere coat collects lint.... Jacobs-Jenkins has pulled back the curtain on more than just one family. The finger poin…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:55PMThursday, March 20, 2025
David Mills is nothing if not charming. His is an eclectic presentation that depends on the weather, the current state of affairs (dismal and frightening) and who shows up to be entertaine…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:18PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
... two women are connected to a graveyard in Philadelphia. Their presence spans centuries, beginning with 1832 and ending with the present. This is an intriguing premise that, if nothin…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PMThursday, March 6, 2025
By Tulis McCall What kept running through my head as I watched New Group‘s “Curse Of The Starving Class” at The Pershing Square Signature Center was: “This is a whackadoodle play.�…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:33PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
This contemporary tale is a smorgasbord of ideas that will accompany you for a long, long time. It stands on its own with no apologies. Bravo.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMFriday, February 21, 2025
The title of this show, "Redwood", is singular, not plural. We normally refer to this wonder of the natural world in the plural. "The Redwoods," we say. Here the title refers to one Re…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:39PMThursday, February 20, 2025
by Tulis McCall There are any number of reasons why you should get yourself over to “Liberation” by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White at Roundabout Theatre Company. First of all,…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PM 
