1,431 stories from The Front Row Center
I went to the Kraine Theater last night to experience something that I didn't know existed; I thought was pretty cool, and something that is unlike anything else you'll probably come across.…
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…
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 …
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…
By David Walters Spain is a technically precise, tightly constructed, and a sharply designed vision for the eyes. The scenes pop along, spinning in and fading out as if you were looking thro…
Dianne Fraser kicked off the release of her album You and I " The Words and Music of Leslie Bricusse with a cabaret of the same name at Don't Tell Mama. What an exciting moment for any a…
Charming only begins to describe Peter & the Wolf by Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Originally commissioned by the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow in 1936, tonight's perf…
Killin' Republicans may sound like an extreme anti-GOP motto, but it's a hilarious reference to American politics looking back 150 years or so. Perhaps the sequel is Killin' Democrats or Pro…
Two parallel stories, one placed in a fictional bronze-age era and the other modern-day, both focus on the roles that society fosters upon women.
The evening quieted the cacophony of noise in our heads from the day and reminded us of the beauty of music and words. It celebrated the expanse of the American Songbook and the cabaret …
A Midwinter Night's Dream opened December 9 at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and runs through the entire month. This rethinking of a familiar story full of winter fairies and magic i…
Beneath the sex, the fucking, is despair. Mickey Sabbath makes us uncomfortable, he happily invites us into his most despicable thoughts, and he is so content in exposing us to moments that …
Reason 4,723 to visit in New York City:  Peter & the Wolf , directed and narrated by Isaac Mizrahi. What an absolute delight.  Appearing annually at the Guggenheim Museum s…
"Sometimes life is what life costs" is a heartwrenching theme of these two stories
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…
I wouldn't call Ryan McCartan's characterization in the role of Cletis a scene-stealer. I would call it a play-stealer extraordinare.
Relationships are never easy. For the five women in Shadows, written and directed by Anthony M. Laura it is ever so. Alas, we don't really learn why. The actresses do their best,…
School Pictures is at once entertaining, educational, thought provoking, vulnerable, hilarious, sentimental, and heart-warming. It reaches you on an extremely human level, and on a polit…
Translation's message rings true on both a personal and a more global level. It explores how we connect with each other and what we choose to keep and value of myth, legend, history and cul…
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…
In her play, 'Til Death, Elizabeth Coplan examines the less attractive aspects of death - less attractive in that as we watch a loved one reach the end of his or her life, feelings we would …
Suzanne's storytelling is uniquely her which makes it enthralling, educational, a personally revealing window into herself, and rather fun.
Seth Sikes is one of the most prolific contemporary artists of our time. His talent knows no limit. His magnetism and absolute exhilaration reach across whatever space he is performing in an…
What it so succinctly sets up is a clash between a country's comfortable projected self-image and its greedier self-serving actions.
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.
