Friday, February 24, 2023
This deeply personal family story is an important, unique, and vital account of survival and hopes seen through the eyes of a child ably characterized by gifted actor and raconteur Ingrid Ga…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:22PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Who Murdered Love was a musical comedy extraordinaire At the Theater for the New City. The scene for fun was set as DaDa Love (Elyp Johnson), and the cast sang Mad for Love. This setting pro…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:10PMSeth Rudesky hosted an event at Café Carlyle that, in the annals of theater, shall remain a night of incredible music, cherished remembrances, personal anecdotes, and Broadway history told …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:03PMThursday, February 16, 2023
Tonight’s Disco Daydream was an immersive fun-fete celebrating the universal quest for elusive love and where it might be found. The cast touched hearts and drew inspiration from an empath…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:00PMBroadway Valentine’s Day at 54 Below was an evening of love, song, romance, nostalgia, fine dining, unique beverages, and thematic desserts. The messages of love portrayed were universal, …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:55PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Experiencing the ineffable, expressive unfolding of the music while seated among the musicians was, without exaggeration, an exalted, rapturous, and elegiac pluradimensional experience. The …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:37PMFriday, February 10, 2023
Shedding Load represented an exciting portent of American theater. It garnered an intense attraction to those who understand and appreciate the vitality and expressive power of dramatic arts…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:58PMWednesday, February 8, 2023
With this performance, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has fervidly conquered Mahler's Symphony No. 5, bringing its ineffable, sumptuous beauty and afflatus to life. When listening, one is …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:30PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
AUDIENCE was presented with fine acting, powerful multi-dimensional visuals, cultural significance, context and import, rich vigilance, and irony.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:41PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Swinging big band music was hot in Manhattan this week! From the moment the Tony Kadleck Big Band began their set at the Birdland Jazz Club, we tapped our toes and jumped to a tasteful, tigh…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:23PMSunday, January 29, 2023
The program opened with Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 in C minor “Organ” (1886). When the organ spoke at the first poco adagio along with lush strings and harmonies, the amalgam…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:24PMSunday, January 22, 2023
Existentialism seemed to dominate undertones dealing with the passage of time, mechanically repeating the practices of our predecessors, and our insignificance in the vastness of the univers…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:00PMTrombonist/composer Conrad Herwig and the Latin side all-stars ascended the stage to deliver their first musical offering. Splendid charts, extended improvisation, artistic interaction, virt…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:57PMMonday, January 16, 2023
Brine honored the music of The Smiths through an auto-biographical perspective revealing universal human needs like love, friendship, and realized ambitions. We discovered Brine’s Bible Be…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:19PMRaconteur and narrator Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago) guided us through the majestic proclamations of dances, storytelling, and music representing the magnificence and provenance of these ric…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:16PMSunday, January 8, 2023
This is a sad tale of the tragic nature of Russia’s brutal conflagration with Ukraine, as explicated by actor, writer, and director Stephan Morrow in a complex “kaleidoscope” of ideas …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:52PMFriday, December 23, 2022
Maestro Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra delivered an elegant, nonpareil performance expressing the radiant afflatus of Handel’s artistic and spiritual masterpiece Messiah. The exquisite sound…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:22PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
This notable variety of musical works is apposite for The Orchestra Now, an ensemble of young professionals assembling to hone their skills for careers in music around the world. This evenin…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:46PMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Today was a splendid example of the expressive power of visual and auditory art articulated with a fine orchestra, magnificent art exhibit, and stimulating repartee.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:07PMSunday, December 4, 2022
If the 17-piece Kevin Blanq big band and Kathryn Farmer were not enough to get you in the mood for smooth swinging and dancing, the urbane, bespoke, and suave dancer extraordinaire Manuel Ro…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:44PMA Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx is a heartfelt, sentimental look at old-world family dynamics that many of us saw weaken after the shifts from cities to suburbs accelerated in the late 60…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:41PMMonday, November 21, 2022
For the first time in 35 years, Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts returned to the stage. Envisioned initially by Ellington as a “Festival of Grace,” provenance for Sacred Concerts is in…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:17PMWendy Moten ascended to the Birdland stage with a smile and charm that lit up the room. From her first words and the comfortable swing tempo of her first song, All of Me, Moten emerged as a …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
The rich baritone voice of raconteur Frank Zilinyi launched Radiotheatre’s deliciously macabre exordium of The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street, a dark, spellbinding tale of New York City hi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:55AMThursday, November 10, 2022
Blake Allen’s Insomnia is a cerebral, enigmatic, and mystifying artistic creation chronicling a night of an insomniac narrator. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Sleep and Wa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:25PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Benjamin Franklin the man emerged as a frowzy, flawed, and crafty roué, relentlessly attempting to seduce the married Mme Brillon. Franklin deftly engaged and modified his façon de parler …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:31PMMonday, November 7, 2022
Maestro Botstein and The Orchestra Now demonstrated their capacity to express powerful rich intones, frenetic fugatos, and exquisite, intense subtleties.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:13AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Wendel's songs are strikingly original, expressive, and extraordinarily inventive. His ideas and improvisations are freely chromatic, virtuosic, and organic, and he employed subtle be-bop id…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:40PMThursday, November 3, 2022
This cast deserves high praise for maintaining the challenging, complex characters and tensions while also charming and engaging viewers who could not resist being sympathetic and moved. The…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:30PMSunday, October 30, 2022
The performance of Mozart's Requiem, K526, was glorious and ecstatic. The sui generis admixture of rich sounds from soloists, chorus, and orchestra was superb. At the same time, the sumptuou…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:12PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Charlap opened with a sumptuous, gentle introduction to Tommy Dorsey's I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, leading to a string of some of the greatest songs of the American Songbook and jazz c…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:04PM 
