Friday, December 20, 2024
By Tulis McCall When I was in fifth grade my class was assigned Pen Pals who lived in England and were students from a town with the same name as ours. Once I got over the shock of the fac…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:31PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
By Tulis McCall “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.” Churchill said this about Russia in 1939. Amazing how quotes like that never run…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:01PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
By Tulis mcCall The cast of Bedlam‘s “Music CIty” does not give you a chance to not fall in love with them. Not one ounce of a chance. If you get your butt in a seat in this cozy t…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:46PMThursday, November 21, 2024
As a whole, this production is a bit of a jumble. Staging is awkward, dialogue overlaps and is easily missed, and the story wanders.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PMMonday, October 28, 2024
Dear Reader - In the interest of full disclosure I am writing to let you know that The Front Row Center will not be reviewing "In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot" because I, Tulis McCall, a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:45PMFriday, August 16, 2024
These actors did everything they could to lift this play up. Their timing was spot on. They were invested in the story and the text. There were moments of delicious black humor, moments of…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:49PMThursday, August 8, 2024
If you are a fan of either Adam Pascal or Anthony Rapp or have seen the musical RENT more than once - this is a show intended for your very person.
The post Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp: …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:56PMMonday, August 5, 2024
It is a good thing that JOB, by Max Wolfe Friedlich, is at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The Hayes is next to Sardi's. Sardi's upstairs is where you want to go after you see this show because…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:24PMSaturday, July 27, 2024
Watching Oh Mary! is like catching a ride on a runaway stage coach - with no less than six horses.... Cole Escola has created a Mary who is Scarlett O'Hara on uppers. This Mary is at the c…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:55AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Let me say right off the bat that these actors are doing the best they can. The text they have to work with, however, combined with an absence of directorial guidance sends them off the ra…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMThursday, July 11, 2024
... like catching a ride on a runaway stage coach - with no less than six horses.... Escola has created a Mary who is Scarlett O'Hara on uppers. This Mary is at the center of her own unive…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
Emmy® Award Winner Theatre World® Award Winner HOLLAND TAYLOR ANA VILLAFAÑE Star in the World Premiere Play N/A By MARIO CORREA Directed by DIANE PAULUS No…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:16PMThursday, June 27, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:00PMTuesday, June 25, 2024
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. I …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:46PMFriday, June 21, 2024
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 queens…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:34PMFriday, June 14, 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
... 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 survival de…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:45PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
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 Glimpses,…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:38PMThis is a play that sneaks up on you over and over again. This production shines.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:23PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PM... 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.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:11AMFriday, May 24, 2024
... 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 have …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:28PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
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.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:54PMThursday, May 16, 2024
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 fo…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:21PMMonday, May 13, 2024
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 the…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:30PMFriday, May 3, 2024
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 Daughter …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:19PMThursday, May 2, 2024
"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�…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:17PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
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. These per…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:08PMFriday, April 26, 2024
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.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:28PM 
