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Monday, September 30, 2024

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail by Holli Harms

This is a show of light and sound, of moving images and eerie smoke, and smell that extends all over the trail that truly, honestly lifts itself up into the tops of these spectacular trees. …

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Unreconciled by Holli Harms

Sefton is such a gifted performer. He and co-writer Mark Basquill have crafted a marvelous production of the joy of childhood, the horror of sexual abuse, the love of family, and the love of…

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Blood of The Lamb by Holli Harms

I cannot say enough about this extraordinary piece of theater. I encourage you to go and see it with a friend. Take someone that you can sit with after and open up the story further for your…

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The Goldberg Variations by Holli Harms

The actors are doing their best to keep up with the complicated difficult script and some have genuine moments on stage that suddenly stand out, but for the most part they are wrestling shad…

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour by Holli Harms

The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour at Birdland Jazz Club is an uplifting, exuberant time travel back to the jazz of the 20's where Bryce, like his hero Cliff Edwards (no relation), sings in wh…

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Friday, August 23, 2024

Laurin Talese at SMOKE by Holli Harms

The chanteuse Laurin Talese evokes deep emotional connections with every song she sings. The post Laurin Talese at SMOKE appeared first on The Front Row Center.

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Friday, August 16, 2024

Once Upon A Mattress by Holli Harms

Sutton Foster is a Broadway treasure! She is an indescribably stunning comedic actress and musical goddess. Michael Urie is the perfect Prince Dauntless. The two of them tear the stage up wi…

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Thursday, August 8, 2024

EPIC Players by Holli Harms

Aubrie Therrien, Executive Artistic Director of The EPIC Players, is a woman full of love, energy, and determination to change how the world perceives artists who are Neurodivergent and disa…

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Friday, August 2, 2024

John Pizzarelli and The Swing 7 by Holli Harms

John Pizzarelli & The Swing 7 playing now at Birdland Jazz Club is one of those wonderful treasures that we get to experience here in NYC! He is a beautiful swinger whose vocals are smoo…

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Six Characters by Holli Harms

Howze, with the direction of director Dustin Wills, has created a visual moving abstract expressionist piece of art on stage. With these six extraordinary actors as the painters. These six a…

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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Greatest Summer Bops by Holli Harms

This was one of those seaside/beachfront rock and roll shows that leave all knowing that the world will be okay. Music is our gift to our souls, to our hearts, and Monday night Joe's Pub our…

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Thursday, July 11, 2024

EMPIRE by Holli Harms

Goosebumps! I got them often watching this stunning piece of theater with Walt Spangler's marvelous set design that gives us height and depth, Lorna Ventura's superlative choreography, Cady …

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Elevator Repair Service ULYSSES by Holli Harms

Dear God they did it! And thank God they did!

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Friday, June 21, 2024

EMPIRE by Holli Harms

By Holli Harms Get Ready! Get Set! EMPIRE the musical is about to open at New World Stages July 1! This is the story of the men who built our American/World treasure standing on the corner o…

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The Edge of Nature by Holli Harms

You may think that a show about climate change will carry the severity of the horrors of what is happening to our planet and nothing more. The loss is there, but mostly the love of our littl…

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Friday, June 14, 2024

Mention My Beauty by Holli Harms

With Mention My Beauty the Pangea performance space is stripped down to bare bones with only Ayvazian, a music stand, and the script. It is a full 90 minute piece reconsidering of every prec…

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Norm Lewis: Summertime by Holli Harms

It is an evening with some of Broadway's most iconic songs, sung by one of Broadway's most iconic performers. Lewis and his marvelous band, led by pianist and music director Joseph Joubert, …

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Monday, June 3, 2024

Party Clown of The Rich and Famous by Holli Harms

The mostly bare stage of the vast Cino Theater at Theater for the New City was filled to the rim with amazing stories of the 80's: the crazy over the top parties of the rich and famous and n…

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Mobile Unit's The Comedy of Errors by Holli Harms

Flowing from Spanish to English - English to Spanish - nine marvelous actors tell the story of two sets of brothers, identical twins separated as babies by a stormy shipwreck and they find t…

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Friday, May 31, 2024

Tony Danza: Standards and Stories by Holli Harms

Tony Danza, Tony Danza, Tony Danza! His name is a song! His life, a great story! His tap dancing, his joy, and his ukulele playing, his fun! He will beautifully scat and hilariously tell jok…

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Artists on Artworks"Meg Okura on Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art  by Holli Harms

Kahlil Gibran wrote, "we humans are creatures of form and color." "Music," he said, "lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient works." Exactly what w…

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Monday, May 13, 2024

Twelfth Night by Holli Harms

The intimate stage at Axis Theater in the West Village is an ideal venue for this production. I, for the first time, really heard the words and the story and was even more wowed by Shakespea…

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

BAB ILO PARIS BRAZILIAN JAZZ by Holli Harms

THIS JUST IN FROM PARIS!!! BAB ILO is a fabulously intimate find in a city that beckons at every corner. Settle in with a drink and some stunning music brought to you by some of Paris' an…

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Friday, April 19, 2024

Lempicka by Holli Harms

This is the musical every artist will want to be a part of and every audience member will be talking about. Commanding, towering songs that take your breath and demand your attention and a s…

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Monday, April 15, 2024

LAS BORINQUEÑAS by Holli Harms

This is a tight, strong, remarkable cast, and the staging, by Rebecca Aparicio, is directed as a dance of both struggle and joy for the senses.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The MOTH PROJECT " Music/Pictures/Words by Holli Harms

Peter Kiesewalter has crafted a beautiful event exploring the mysterious life of moths, their profound similarity to humans - our transformations, migrations, conflicts, biodiversity, and co…

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

The Who's TOMMY by Holli Harms

Much of the production is at a race pace that never gives us the chance to fall into the characters. We are never able to lock into the story. We are sitting back enjoying the wonderful perf…

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Before The Drugs Kick In by Holli Harms

Before The Drugs Kick In is funny, heart-wrenching, and not to be missed. How Lemme creatively rolls out the story, discreetly turning one card after the other over until the deck is face up…

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

My Mother Had Two Faces by Holli Harms

This is a quiet, fun, frightening and beautiful performance by Trachtenberg as she wears the masks of her mother.

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Friday, March 15, 2024

Lucie Jones by Holli Harms

It was a wonderful, too short, evening. Come back Lucie Jones! Broadway - hello!

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Maiden Voyage by Holli Harms

The play picks up beautifully in the last hour both visually and thematically.  Moving with emotions and stories and desperation to save themselves and their vessel.

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