Monday, August 18, 2025
Over the course of the evening, Jeff Ross gave us a comedy show that wasn't. It was funny. It was also the story of his life. It was him.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Off Night is a new late night variety show, hosted by Ephriam Birney and Ryan Quigley. Here was the plan, the hosts told us, they had planned an evening but had asked their writers to throw …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:58PMFriday, July 4, 2025
A different show every night. Carl Holder's Out of Order is a war between flexibility and specificity.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PMSunday, June 8, 2025
The Value by Nicholas Dunn is engaging, eerie, and deeply questioning.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:28PMTuesday, May 27, 2025
By Nicole Itkin Pangea is a supper club in the East Village with adorable sequined animal pictures on the walls, great food and drinks, and even better entertainment. This night, Amy Engelha…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:17PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
A splendid premise, but ultimately an experience so confusing as to be disappointing.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:38PMMonday, December 2, 2024
Music. Love. This show is about the beauty of sound, power dynamics, and love that used to be.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:41AMSunday, September 15, 2024
By Nicole Itkin Ximena Garnica, one of the creators of A Meal at HERE, gave a brief speech at the end of the show, bidding us goodnight and hoping we would consider the show memorable. They …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:37PMFriday, August 30, 2024
The hour-long musical read-through "I Love You Because" is a love letter to love and New York. It was uplifting, but not innovative.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:55PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Shanna Sharp told us to prepare to get emotional during her show: "To Manhattan, With Love." She wasn't wrong!
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:27PMFriday, July 5, 2024
Their voices, the scents that wafted in, the brief moments of song, and the rain that drizzled down at one point---all of it made every moment come to life.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:32AMSaturday, June 29, 2024
A masterpiece! This festival runs until June 30, and you don't want to miss it!
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:25PMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Charming, pressing, and lovely, the show is a fantastic look at how innocence doesn't last, and yet how desperation can end up close to bliss.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:47PMFriday, June 21, 2024
Rhonda Ross, in an evening about the power of thought, tells us that mindset can make heaven into hell or hell into heaven. And I believe it. Take a listen.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:54PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Throughout Sam Shepard's Simpatico, there’s a fascinating sense of all is not well and it’s right there for the actors to grab onto and play with. Indeed, sometimes they do—which is wh…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:54PMFriday, May 31, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
A sweet little gem: the most earnest show I've seen this year.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:38PMThursday, April 18, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
5 plays. 10 minutes each. This is the Estrogenius play festival in Under St. Marks: a tiny, but lovely theater. Here’s a look at the five plays
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:44AMFriday, March 22, 2024
The story of the 1941 labor strike at Disney; throughout the show, each actor tries to woo us over to their side of the fight, and each is remarkably convincing.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:00PMIt's remarkable how talented this band is and how much fun they're having (and have had) as they hit 25 years together as a band.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:38PMThursday, January 25, 2024
A road trip that never quite goes anywhere. A good watch, but underwhelming at its core.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:35PMSunday, January 21, 2024
Wow. A show for the ages. Silly, fun, vulnerable... and silly. Go see it!
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:33PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Gabrielle Stravelli Trio at Birdland -- Give her album a listen when it comes out! It should be a good time: comforting, gentle, warm. Not something that will wake you up, but not something …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:20AMTuesday, August 29, 2023
The 2023 revival of the 1968 musical How to Steal an Election is a romp through history, full of fitting declarations and historical references that feel timely.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:12PMMonday, August 14, 2023
A friend asking for help, and an audience willing to give it: go see A Eulogy for Roman.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:54PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
An improvised night of Shakespeare: an oxymoron, and a great show.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:22PMThe story before Romeo and Juliet's story, Lady Capulet is a powerful, emotional, and precarious struggle.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:21PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
“I Will Probably Cry" is Gracie McGraw's stunning debut; a love trek, the show walks us from despair to resoluteness.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:06PMMonday, July 24, 2023
"Divine Decadence," is an exploration of ten decades of music, an evening that delves into seeking pleasure and decadence, all the while wrapped in total indulgence.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:53PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
A brilliant evening of jazz, with song choices ranging from "the sublime to the ridiculous"-- but always incredibly fun and uplifting.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:10AM 
