Friday, June 13, 2025

78th Annual Tony Awards – Our Writer was There! by Victoria Dammer

The Tony Awards spotlight the talent, the energy, and all individuals who make Broadway one-of-a-kind in the theater world. The post 78th Annual Tony Awards – Our Writer was There! appeare…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:18AM
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Call Me Izzy by Tulis McCall

Jean Smart is superb. Her performance is so smooth - even through rough bits - that she appears not to be acting at all.  She simply transforms over and over again as she slips into each ch…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:15PM

When Boys Become Men Too Soon: The Heartbreaking Genius of A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson by Edward Kliszus

Some evenings in the theater change you. They reach inside your chest and rearrange something fundamental about how you see the world. "A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads Th…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:54PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Angry Alan by Tulis McCall

"Angry Alan" is an earthquake of a production.  It will lift you out of your lives, the way only extraordinary theatre can, and return you to them filled to the brim with the experience of …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:59PM
Sunday, June 8, 2025

The Value at the Rockaway Theatre Company by Nicole Itkin

The Value by Nicholas Dunn is engaging, eerie, and deeply questioning. The post The Value at the Rockaway Theatre Company appeared first on The Front Row Center.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:28PM

American Symphony Orchestra Delivers a Triumphant Guntram at Carnegie Hall by Edward Kliszus

Friday night's performance of Gurtram was a remarkable unveiling of a rarely performed but powerful work by Richard Strauss. From the onset, Strauss's mastery of rich symphonic intones was e…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:25PM
Friday, June 6, 2025

Leni’s Last Lament: Jodie Markell Delivers a Powerhouse Performance  by Edward Kliszus

In this provocative one-woman show, Markell inhabits the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl with such fierce intelligence and nuanced complexity that she transforms what could have bee…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:19PM

The Wash by Sarah Downs

In 1881 a small band of Black laundresses decided they'd had enough of being pushed around by dead-beat clients, and despite having little perceived leverage, went on strike for better pay.�…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:49PM

Sabeth Pérez Captivates at The Jazz Gallery: A Transcendent Preview of Searching for Beauty by Edward Kliszus

In a Stellar evening of musical artistry and cultural connection, the inimitable singer and composer Sabeth Pérez and her band delivered a mesmerizing performance at The Jazz Gallery, nestl…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:48PM

BALLS: The Monster Catchin’ Musical Comédy by Eryn Malafronte

...if you were like me, if you spent hours ruining your eyesight squintingat the dark screen of your Gameboy on a family road trip, or hoarded holographic laminated cards in hopes that one d…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:44PM
Thursday, June 5, 2025

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA by Tulis McCall

The HA HA HA HA HA HA HA is not a laugh fest.  It is a release and an invitation.  To tell you exactly what she does would ruin the surprise so I will say that it is a slow reveal.  Masli…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

A Deliciously Devilish Romp: “Point Loma” Serves Up Retro Horror by Edward Kliszus

Manhattan Repertory Theatre has struck theatrical gold with Tim Mulligan's wickedly entertaining "Point Loma," a gleefully campy horror spoof that channels the best of 1950s B-movie schlock …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:18PM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Lunar Eclipse by Tulis McCall

...as mild mannered as the text was, Birney and Emery made us believe that these two were the real deal.  As performers and characters their bond is mighty.  And that, my friends, is prett…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM

A Freeky Introduction by Tulis McCall

Njikam leaps onto the stage and into our hearts.  You don't have a chance to deny him, because he is that slick.  The deed is done before  you realize it. S-L-I-C-K! The post A Freeky In…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM

Billy Stritch and Gabrielle Stravelli Set Birdland Ablaze by Edward Kliszus

Good evening from Birdland, where tonight Gabrielle Stravelli and Billy Stritch transformed song into pure magic—two master artists creating musical alchemy that reminds us why jazz is the…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:55AM
Monday, June 2, 2025

Eurydice by Kendra Jones

Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice is a poetic net capturing the sorrow and magic felt when simultaneously falling in love with a partner and still grieving a beloved. This play digs into grief: how it r…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM

The Imaginary Invalid by Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCall Red Bull’s “Imaginary Invalid” is a perfection of a confection that will soothe the blues we are all experiencing.  I PROMISE it will make you laugh.  It made me laug…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:15PM

Irish & Brazilian Samba by Holli Harms

This was an astonishing evening created by Colin Harte and Dana Monteiro with their fusion of Irish and Brazilian Samba. Here was proof of the power of music, the instrumental and the vocal,…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:56PM

Laurie Roldan: A Song For You – The Music of Karen Carpenter at The Green Room 42 by Edward Kliszus

In an era when the world feels increasingly fractured and complex, Laurie Roldan arrived at The Green Room 42 like a beacon of comfort and hope. Her tribute to Karen Carpenter, "A Song For Y…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:52PM
Sunday, June 1, 2025

BOWL EP by Brittany Crowell

It’s a play about two skaters smoking and drinking and writing their first rap album together, yes; but more than that it’s about the cost of intimacy and what happens when two people co…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:18PM

Fire and Fate: Ballet Hispánico’s CARMEN.maquia Ignites New York City Center by Edward Kliszus

Last evening at New York City Center, Ballet Hispánico delivered a breathtaking interpretation of Gustavo Ramírez Sansano's CARMEN.maquia, transforming Bizet's timeless opera into a visce…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:13PM
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Amy Engelhardt and Erin Hill in “Good Night and Good Pluck” at Pangea by Nicole Itkin

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 04:17PM

I’ll Take It by David Walters

Three art-forms, put into a box, shaken and stirred; interject into that three gifted physical artists with the restrictions of a confined space as their palette, and what happens is a world…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:13PM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Nina Conti: Whose Face is it Anyway? by Kendra Jones

A rack of masks (inclusive in facial features and color) accompanies Nina on stage. Members of the audience are brought on stage to put on these masks while Conti “speaks” through them, …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:30AM
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

GODDESS by Brittany Crowell

Amber Iman has a voice of the gods, easily filling the theater with beautiful tones as the goddess of music.  Iman leads the audience down a winding path of emotion with Thurber’s labyrin…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:45PM

Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole by Tulis McCall

There are moments when Hill's performance is so pure we would swear it was 1957 and the game was truly on.  The game of survival, race, rage and madness.  We are hurled back and forth by t…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 06:15PM

Transcendent Motion: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Celebrates Heritage Through Sublime Movement by Edward Kliszus

The evening concluded with "Tomorrow", featuring dancers in a harmonious blend of the evening's palette—blue, white, red, and gray—creating a visual symphony that celebrates unity. As th…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:45PM

The Importance of Being Earnest by Victoria Weisfeld

Oscar Wilde's classic is brought to exhilarating comic heights in this new Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey production. The post The Importance of Being Earnest appeared first on The Front …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:43PM

A Magnificent Journey: PACS Spellbinding “Symphonic Storytelling” Concert by Edward Kliszus

Music creates a virtual world where stories unfold not in bytes, but in glorious, symphonic narratives that transport us to realms both fantastical and profound. After all, what could be mor…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:51PM
Monday, May 19, 2025

Bus Stop by Stanford Friedman

Grace’s Diner, the setting for William Inge’s classic, slice of life drama, Bus Stop, serves homemade pies and cakes. But the customers and wait staff who find themselves stranded overni…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:39PM
Saturday, May 17, 2025

She Takes Flight by David Walters

She Takes Flight is composed of the personal stories, told through monologues and skits, of five actresses, aged 40s to 60s, and their journeys living, creating, and becoming themselves in a…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM