Thursday, August 7, 2025
In a span of fifteen minutes, we see two old acquaintances (Maria Jose Payares & Cheng) unravel each other, somewhere between life and death. This surprisingly dark drama gives us a glim…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
JOY: A True New Musical is a story of unrelenting resilience, the power of a single mother with an idea, and the work of believing in yourself and your work when your support system is strai…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:15PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
The Paul Taylor Dance Company's run at The Joyce each summer is always a wonderful, much anticipated evening, as the diversity and creativity of each piece always surprise me. The ease of sh…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
Taylor Mac's writing, coupled with Darko Tresnjak's direction, in Prosperous Fools is sharp, and infiltrated with bizarre sets and humor which is just as absurd"and certainly not subtle. Mac…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:17PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
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[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
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, usin…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Lobster captures the funny, cringey, budding desperation for love and identity we search for in high school.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
After receiving seven Tony Award Nominations Thursday morning, the cast of Dead Outlaw was ready for an explosive performance on the night I was there. Â They did not disappoint. Â Let u…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2025
All four pieces, making up GLASS. KILL. WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP. are joined by their asking of the audience to place ourselves in a fantastical, undetermined space and time. We release expec…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:14PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
Opening at a time of fierce urgency, Becoming Eve offers us poignant perspective of a female's soul trapped in a Jewish boy's body. It's an intimate, engaging, and equally as entertaining ex…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Bianca and Katarina, the two daughters of Baptista (Vivien Landau) are to be married. And of course, dowries are crucial in this decision to choose the most suitable husband. But, there's a …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Conversations with Mother is a simple sitcom. This new semi-autobiographical comedy, written by Matthew Lombardo, and playing at New York City's Theater 555, is about a gay man's (Matt Doyle…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:39PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2025
Safe House is the most hypnotic piece of 2025.
The effortless craze and unhinged performance by Grace (Kate Gilmore), an unhoused, lonely young woman, carries this story, as the plot was mor…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Night Sings Its Songs, written by Nobel Prize Recipient Jon Olav Fosse, presents us with one disjointed, unhappy modern couple, in conflict for 70 minutes straight.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:16PM[SHARE]Four plays--all one-acts of varying lengths--find similarity in how they're rooted in our internal thoughts and ideas put on display, whether they're forced or willingly released. Often, we …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
"How far can you run in five minutes?"
..."How long is five minutes?" you may ask, out of breath, just a minute into running for your life.
Khawla Ibraheem has written this gripping monologu…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Vinny DePonto is a storyteller, a mentalist, and a pleasure to spend an evening with as he leads us through a show of memory extraction. Mindplay is thought-provoking, playful, sentimental. …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:40PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2024
A collection of reminiscences, from Christmas Eve to the magical day itself. Dylan Thomas (Reed Lancaster) is a child again; he narrates the gathering of family, joys and wishes of a child a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:28PM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2024
"Death Becomes Her" is completely over the top, exaggerated, and extravagant. ... We are forced to consider just how accurate this desire for perfection, the gaze of others, our fascination …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2024
We Live in Cairo is a generational yearning for change; six artists come together and they use their artistic talents and passion to fight for change, for freedom, for a future. We watch as…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Another Shot focuses on the decision to go through rehab versus deciding to BE in rehab. Another Shot is loosely based on the real-life experiences of Harry Teinowitz, whose career and life …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2024
"This group is as real as it gets." Rawshock crafts a safe place, a space of trust and care and support. Five individuals"some inpatient and some outpatients at a mental health hospital"meet…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:22AM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2024
Gidion's Knot puts the way teachers and parents navigate communication and professionalism on stage. The gaps, the silences, create the tense space where we sit, surrounding these two adults…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Numerous directions of morality and betrayal are questioned. Is a public debate democracy or theater? Are "good" journalists shit stirrers?"those that are willing to put their lives at risk …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2024
Night one of the Paul Taylor Dance Company performances was theater; it was bold, it was diverse, and the precision, intimacy, and technique were especially highlighted. The evening had a da…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:28PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2024
"It wasn't a good Jew that survived the war."
It's 1986 and we're in the den of Holocaust survivor, Henryk Altman. In a roomy leather chair, Henryk (Frank Blocker) speaks to us: a stream of…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:18PM[SHARE]Misles, gun shots, explosions. Breaking the Story first places us in a foreign forest, where journalist Marina and her cameraman-turned-lover, are shielding themselves from attacks. We may o…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:51PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2024
The passion for sharing the work of Micki Grant found in these four performers exhibit is absorbed by the audience, and whether we grew up listening to Micki or have only heard one or two of…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2024
By Kendra Jones "Kids just wanna get messy!" As we enter the theater, we're invited to put our names in the fishbowl in the hope that we're chosen as a participant for "physical challenges."…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:32PM[SHARE]It's past 10pm when Julia Masli creeps up the backstage exit door steps, towards the audience. She doesn't resemble the classic clown--rather an anglerfish with a tiny handbell. A breathy, e…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Beautifully detailed lyrics of reminiscence depicting Susan, Sadie, and Beckett's memories and joy of childhoods spent with their grandparents transport us "Over the river and through the wo…
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