Friday, 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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
As it is, the story ends much as it began, two old lovers nattering at one another. Â Not much to see there.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:10PM[SHARE]Friday, 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…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:05PM[SHARE]Friday, 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. Â And that is about all the guarantee Bloom can offer. Â Not a ba…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:08PM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2023
Let me tell you something about puppetry - it is magic. Â It is a magic that is often superior to acting because a puppeteer embues an object with life. Â So it is life times two. Â No…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:47PM[SHARE]Buena 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 02:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 te…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 means "L…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2023
Every track on this album draws inspiration from composers who themselves have been torchbearers of the classic standards"artists like Michael Feinstein, Harry Connick, Jr., John Pizza…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2023
Watching "Scene Partners" by John J. Caswell, Jr. at the Vineyard Theatre felt like an out of body experience. Â I was watching something, but I had no idea what it was.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
Seems as though there are three sets of people in the world. Â The first group knows all about Alicia Keys and has been following her for decades. Â The second group wouldn't know her if…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2023
A pause here to praise these six actors. Â They are astonishing in their talent, their enthusiasm and their commitment to every moment they are on stage. Â They dance, sing, become puppe…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:04PM[SHARE]We meet Harry as a young man who remembers being robbed of his earnings as a messenger for the rag business. Â As an adult, when faced with eviction, Harry steps on the wrong treadmill and…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
Aber walks us through a variety of methods she uses to defeat the PTSD that has built up over the past four January episodes and makes her terrified of being seen. Â At the same time, bein…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2023
Logic tells us Marilyn Maye, at 95, must be on the way down. Â But the way she works a room, it feels like up to me.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:36PM[SHARE]Big Bird is not part of this musical, but the other mainstay characters more than make up for it. Â Cookie Monster eats the set. Â The Count counts. Â Elmo dances up a storm. Â And B…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
Each character that Page gives us is a marvel of precision, execution and the flame of human spirit that connects us all.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:09PM[SHARE]In this show his musicianship is out in front. Â He begins at the piano, gliding through his earlier years. Â After a bit he is joined by Nick Blaemire and Ethan Slater on guitar, piano …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
as the play concludes Rebeck drops us off in the neighborhood near where the story started. Â Where truth was a bargaining chip. Â Curiosity was the coinage of the realm. Â And possibi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2023
This play is not a walk in the park. Â It is a running of the gauntlet. Â Both these characters are playing a high stakes game, and because of the combination of writing, direction and p…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
By Tulis McCall Let me tell you something about Lin Shaye  This woman has worked.  A lot.  Since 1975 when she had a small role in Hester Street, she has worked steadily in f…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2023
With a title like "Pay The Writer" you might think that this is a play about just that, or about the  tension between wirters and, well, everyone else.  You would be wrong.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
What is so remarkable about "Let's Call Her Patty" at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is that it is unremarkable. Â
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:29PM[SHARE]The ideas in this play are not new, but they are newly laid out. Â And of course in this political climate of fake news and lies as truths they are still relevant.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2023
OK THIS goes on my FAVORITES list. When Edelman drops us off at the final bus stop you realize we have doubled back around to the beginning. Â He leaves us where he found us, except we are…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2023
One person shows that are biographical are always a bid dodgy. For one thing, the author has to come up with a reason for the character onstage to be talking at all - because the character i…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Watching O'Hara and D'Arcy James in "Days of Wine And Roses" is both thrilling and exhausting. These two thoroughbreds navigate this difficult and overwritten score with grace and self a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:25PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
... a new block of tickets for the nine-time Tony Award nominated new musical, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, are now available for performances through Sunday, January 14, 2024
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:44PM[SHARE]There are several ways for a man to deal with a childhood trauma. He might seek out psychotherapy. He could delve into meditation. Or, if he is Kenneth, the central character in Eboni Booth'…
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