Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Something strange has indeed opened on Broadway in the form of the uncanny, magical, terrifying, theatrical show-stopper Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:59PMThursday, March 6, 2025
While SUMO is a piece about wrestling and tradition, the play encompasses so much more about humanity, spirituality, and sacrifice. Sumo, as a sport, is mired in honor and strength, and Dr…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:53PMTuesday, February 11, 2025
Urinetown (the musical) then follows Bobby’s journey from zero to hero, citizen to revolutionary. What results is a quippy show that pokes fun at form and systems and can now, twenty-fo…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:48AMThursday, November 21, 2024
We laugh along the way, but what Kissajukian shows us is something refreshingly creative and unusually original - much like himself and the art he makes. Perhaps it takes an unconvention…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PMMonday, November 11, 2024
A Wonderful World is an important story, a hopeful story with a sunny disposition, a story that believes in the possibility of change and in seeing the beauty in the world and trying to buil…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMMonday, November 4, 2024
Romeo + Juliet drips vibe... The tale is as old as time, but the telling is new, exciting, and refreshed.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:28AMThursday, October 31, 2024
TEETH is charming, funny, poignant, timely, and a piece that you can really sink your teeth into (wherever you may have them). Don’t try to resist temptation, make your way to New World …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMSunday, October 27, 2024
Everyone loves a good love story and everyone loves a story about conquering the odds, second chances, and living life to its fullest. Unfortunately Delia Ephron’s Left of Tenth simply d…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:10AMFriday, October 18, 2024
Overall the piece is enjoyable, but not as strong as it would be with either a little more rehearsal, a snappier pace, and/or better chemistry between performers. As it stands, it’s a wo…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:40PMFriday, October 11, 2024
But is it hopeless? David Finnigan’s solo show asks. Can we learn from the past to improve the future? Can theater impact society’s outlook on climate change? Can we have hope and posi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:30AMThursday, October 3, 2024
“Book of Travelers” is an album of beautifully poetic songs inspired by the sights seen, people met, and personal history explored on one man’s train journey. That said, the staged p…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:07PMSunday, September 22, 2024
In The Roommate, a Bronx woman looking to escape her nefarious past heads to Iowa where she rooms with a Midwestern woman living alone after her marriage ends and her son relocates to the bi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:17AMThursday, September 19, 2024
See What I Wanna See by Out of the Box Theatrics is a well-crafted, beautifully and emotionally performed revival which breathes new and revitalized life into a 20 year old piece: the first …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:27AMThursday, May 2, 2024
A full-body celebration of telling stories, being vulnerable, and (very loosely) Illinois making some noise right now at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:20PMFriday, April 26, 2024
I had the pleasure of witnessing a night full of understudies who really stepped up to the plate. Gianna Harris stepped into the role of Ali and brought such gumption, brightness and joy t…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:05PMThursday, April 25, 2024
Jordans presents a worthy perspective with lots to unpack. How do we unlock the door and let ourselves out of the complex? The play doesn’t have solutions to offer, though it creativel…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:23PMMonday, April 22, 2024
A piece of documentary theater that combines perfect portions of fact, statistics, politics, and emotion; Grenfelll: In the Words of Survivors bakes up a well-seasoned call to action; enligh…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:16PMMonday, April 15, 2024
The Leading Ladies Club is a great idea with a fabulous wrapper, but a bit of a mess in the middle.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:38PMThursday, April 4, 2024
House of Telescopes is a beautiful piece, wonderfully designed and fabulously performed and crafted. Filled to the brim with questions and experiences around trans identity, it is universa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:42PMMonday, April 1, 2024
I enjoyed the smart script and intelligent jokes as well as some of the slapstick moments and highly energized performances, but felt that the show lingered far too long and could have used …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:07PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
I left the piece wishing for more, wanting the characters to grow or change from their experience, to learn something. I appreciated Chowdhury’s desire to provide the audience screenshot…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PMSaturday, January 13, 2024
TERCE is a ritual which the audience is invited into. It’s an evolving and growing practice that believe that, through the rigor and work of asking the same question each day in an earnest…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:34PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
School Pictures is at once entertaining, educational, thought provoking, vulnerable, hilarious, sentimental, and heart-warming. It reaches you on an extremely human level, and on a politic…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:24PMMonday, December 4, 2023
Translation's message rings true on both a personal and a more global level. It explores how we connect with each other and what we choose to keep and value of myth, legend, history and cul…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:53PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
The Gardens of Anuncia is a wonderfully magical and heartfelt piece. As Anuncia tends to her garden with soil and water and nourishment, she is also tending to the audience by refilling ou…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:44PMMonday, October 23, 2023
Daphne is a haunting tale of a love, nature, and the cost that often comes with truly escaping.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:00PMFriday, June 16, 2023
Lizard Boy is a modern fable about self-love and discovering the power that your weirdness can wield. It’s a story that feels simple and child-like in theme, with laugh out loud charming…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:21PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
The piece asks the artist, the thinker, the average Joe to consider what it would take to stop performing; to open yourself up to failure and try to create something for someone else - in do…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:00PMBrat Pack is a jam packed hour of fun. The June 12 show I attended was a revival of an earlier show in March and I hope that it becomes a more regular affair. I only wish I had gotten to…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:09PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
The Order of the Golden Scribe: Initiation Tea is the perfect way to spend an afternoon with a friend, a partner, a group of four, or even perhaps a competitive office outing looking to drin…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:08PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
This play with music (written & directed by Colette Robert with music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney, co-produced by New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company), takes a good, ha…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:45PM 
