Every mother thinks her child is special, but rare is the mom who believes her son is gifted to the point that he can communicate with the dead. The post Mystic Conversations appeared first …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:22PMKenny Leon lands his 28 member multiracial cast down in a version of Grover’s Corners that is futuristic in its inclusiveness; a world that is a wish, where interracial romance is de rigue…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:16PMYou may not leave the theater teary-eyed but your brain will be bursting with ideas inspired by this meaty think piece. The post McNeal appeared first on The Front Row Center.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PMWith breakneck pacing and powerful performances from its two leads, Fatherland rips the bandage off a wounded moment in our history. It’s supposed to hurt less that way, but it doesn’t. …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:42AMThe Beacon takes its time navigating the troubled waters stirred up by a foursome who come together on an island off the coast of West Cork only to realize they are better off apart. The pos…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:20PMIt is not every Off-Broadway musical that boasts a chorus of 12 real-life healthcare professionals. Then again, it is unlikely there has ever been a musical quite as concerned with antibioti…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:25PMA high energy romp with many a guilty pleasure. The post Cellino V. Barnes appeared first on The Front Row Center.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PMSo winningly sung and so lovingly directed one cannot help but be wooed by its charms, despite a final scene that is so never in doubt. The post The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical appeared firs…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:01PMMandatory viewing for anyone who wants to be an actor, or a clown, or a time traveler, or a human in touch with humanity.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PMHow do you proceed with a romantic comedy after a tragedy intervenes? The answer is, you don’t.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:25PMDark Noon ignores nothing as it takes stock of the evils embraced by those who built the Wild West, and lays bare the lasting scars.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:24PMSarah Street brings a quiet dignity to the complicated role of Molly, a character who is strongly independent even as she succumbs to the will of others and marries “for no very good reaso…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PMLoneliness is not the problem for the discouraged band members who sing out their troubles in MCC Theater’s dynamic rock musical, The Lonely Few. Indeed, most of them can hardly find a mom…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:01PMNourished by Corinne Jaber’s sharp writing and Lee Sunday Evans’ sensitive direction, this production makes the most out of isolating its players. It serves to effectively express the lo…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PMThe pleasures of the Broadway revival of Spamalot are three in number. Three shall be the number thou shall count and the number of the counting shalt be three.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:34PMMind Mangler conjures up a sad loser who fails magnificently at his craft, cracking up the audience while gaining their sympathy along the way.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:28AMPlaywright Owen Panettieri sticks three jittery oddballs in a haunted house and leaves it to the audience to decide who among them is the biggest victim, the worst tormenter, the most insane.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PMThe employees of Jaja’s each have their own ways of living with this danger. Bioh intertwines their tales, director Whitney White shapes the action into a tight thing of beauty and the ens…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:25PMClose-up magic accounts for about a third of the production’s 90 minutes and is never less than spectacular.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:00PMIt turns out that the sense and sensibilities of Jane Austen can be neatly showcased in a sequence of country-western ballads, played on the banjo and written by a long-haired young man from…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:30PMAdapted from their true banger of a bio film of the same name, writers Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson again conspire to cage intense musicality within the true life story of Terri Hooley…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:42PMA short but sweet set of old favorites, tinged with country music and seasoned with a dash of Smash.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:35PMKhan!!! The Musical! crazily, but cleverly, goes where no multi-racial, multi-talented, multi-species cast has gone before.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:54PMIn this comically surreal reimagining of the Lizzie Borden story, the playwriting team of Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deborah Knox have more on their minds than just homicide by hatchet. They dis…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:48PMThis decidedly dark drama chronicles the lives of five emotionally damaged Idahoans who spend their days working at an art supply store and their nights pensively seeking some sort of salvat…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:00PMYou can’t have a proper celebration of film noir music without a murder, so it is fortunate that Melissa Errico kills during her cinematic and sultry concert
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:31PMA work that meditates on a heart aneurysm, cancer and the specter of AIDS, but finds joy in a son’s love and an actor’s big break.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:29PMMellamphy’s assured, charismatic performance, and clear gift of gab, makes Tim an engaging and all too relatable anti-hero who finds his way to success via a series of questionably justifi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PMThis risky production could have been holy hell, but director Annie Tippe and an enthusiastic cast clearly have faith in Julia May Jonas’s religious service of a script, making believers o…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:05PMWedded bliss. Marital splendor. Joyful union. Matrimony hath many the happy descriptor. But, in 1918, for a budding 18-year-old playwright named Noël Coward, marriage was The Rat Trap.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:01PMEvanston, IL seems an unlikely spot to serve as the frozen, dark epicenter of suicidal thoughts and vanished pasts. But for Peter, a salt truck driver, and his co-worker Basil, its icy roads…
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