Tuesday, June 4, 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.
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 01:28PMThursday, April 25, 2024
...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, our…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:56PMMonday, April 22, 2024
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 turn …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:48PMSunday, April 21, 2024
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 pastry tha…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:45PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
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 of t…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:45PMMonday, April 15, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PMFriday, April 12, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:57PMMonday, April 1, 2024
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.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PMThere 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 we d…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:25PMFriday, March 22, 2024
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. It can …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:52PMUggams 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 interes…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:36PMMonday, March 18, 2024
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 Stock…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PMJohn 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 the …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:42PMThursday, March 14, 2024
The Effect has given us a huge gymnasium into which we are invited to play, engage, risk, contemplate, judge, experiment, and be our wild selves. All from the comfort of our seats. This …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:40PMSunday, March 10, 2024
"Dead Outlaw", now at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre is a deceptive cuss of a show. What appears as a simple tale of varmints, thieves and outlaws is anything but.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PMThursday, February 29, 2024
I don't know what you have planned for this weekend, but if you have not seen this gorgeous Encores! production of "Jelly's Last Jam" at City Center - I suggest you rethink whatever you have…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:29PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
The story takes place in September and early October of 2023 on an unidentified college campus. "Early October" being the operative phrase here, because it takes place before October 7. …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:30PMMonday, February 26, 2024
Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) and her son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch) have what could be referred to as a strained relationship. Strained to the point of busting wide open except for the fact that …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:45PMFriday, February 23, 2024
"The Connector" now at MCC Theatre is an innocuous bit of fluff that has great ambitions and little structure. What it does have is a spectacular cast who tell this tale with as much gusto…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:31PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Ms. Pirnot sings 4 or 5 songs, each amplified differently, almost as if they were daring us to doubt our attention to this detail. In between, the stories are told by the text-to-speech gizm…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:56PMThursday, February 8, 2024
Gancher's writing is mesmerizing and brave. This is gorgeous ensemble, directed with skill and grace. The result? A production that says, " Put on your Big Person Pants and get over here…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMFriday, February 2, 2024
a comprehensive Fellowship Program, dedicated to building and strengthening the Broadway employment pipeline by engaging and employing individuals from historically overlooked communities to…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PM 
