Tuesday, 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 03:12PMWednesday, January 31, 2024
The brilliance of this piece starts with Ruby Thomas's writing. She approaches this family much like a zoologist might approach a small rare creature, with a soft glove on one hand and a p…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:56PMFrom a review of Chita Rivera's Café Carlyle show 2017. "Chita Rivera doesn’t just take the stage at Café Carlyle. She hoists it over her shoulder and walks off with it. Rivera is a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:29PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Somewhere in the flotsam and jetsam of the holiday I forgot to pay special tribute to Lynn Henderson who performed "There's A Little Starch Left" - her new one woman show - in December at Do…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:56PMOnce Upon A Mattress at Encores is a ton and a half of pure joy. And Sutton Foster is at the center of it, using her crystal voice. lungs of iron, comedic timing. Foster is a combination…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:28PMFriday, January 26, 2024
There are secrets being spilled here. These are the stories women tell each other in private. In this production Chris Henry and Lorna Ventura have pulled the women and every one of th…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:53PMSunday, January 21, 2024
This might sound fussy but watching a play that should give us the musicality of Brian Friel's work, but does not, because the Irish accents are either missing altogether or fleeting at best…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:30PMMonday, January 15, 2024
As it is, the story ends much as it began, two old lovers nattering at one another. Not much to see there.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:10PMFriday, December 29, 2023
Marilyn Maye at Birdland -- Maye is a happy woman. Genuinely down to the bottom of those cute shoes she is happy. This is not Pollyanna happy. This is "I have a right to be happy and I…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:05PMFriday, December 22, 2023
You could do worse than take a trip with this observant guide. ... We are, like the dogs we own, here to love and serve. And that is about all the guarantee Bloom can offer. Not a bad wa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:08PMFriday, December 15, 2023
Let me tell you something about puppetry - it is magic. It is a magic that is often superior to acting because a puppeteer embues an object with life. So it is life times two. No fooli…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:47PMBuena Vista Social Club, now playing at the Atlantic Theater Company to riotous approval by every audience, is a bout as uplifting a show as you can get.
Only one problem - the producers …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:52PMThursday, December 14, 2023
By Tulis McCall So. Right off the bat you will know that the seven actors featured in “How To Dance In Ohio” who play autistic teenagers are real life people with autism. They tell…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
By Tulis McCall “Manahatta”, now at the Public Theater, is a snappy and disturbing play that will make you reconsider Manhattan, whether or not you want to “Manahatta” in Lenape me…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PM 
