1,527 stories from The Front Row Center
Seems as though most of Diamond's songs are biographical ad universal at the same time. Â Hearing them again makes us remember that theses songs are woven into the fabric of our lives - be…
Today was a splendid example of the expressive power of visual and auditory art articulated with a fine orchestra, magnificent art exhibit, and stimulating repartee.
KPOP on Broadway is a dazzling spectacle of the synchronized dancing, rock, and electronic hip-hop phenomenon that has swept the world.
This risky production could have been holy hell, but director Annie Tippe and an enthusiastic cast clearly have faith in Julia May Jonas's religious service of a script, making believers out…
If the 17-piece Kevin Blanq big band and Kathryn Farmer were not enough to get you in the mood for smooth swinging and dancing, the urbane, bespoke, and suave dancer extraordinaire Manuel Ro…
A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx is a heartfelt, sentimental look at old-world family dynamics that many of us saw weaken after the shifts from cities to suburbs accelerated in the late 60s.
If you know of the musical legacy of Hoagy Carmichael and appreciate his music, if you are a fan of The York Theatre Company and the work that they do, and if you like singing and dancing, y…
"Believe in yourself and all that you are" is the unspoken chant that underlies the wonderful, timely, and poignant play The Culture by Aussie writer and performer Laura Jackson.
I realized early on that Mike Birbiglia reminded me of my cousin, Tim. Tim could start a story about Grammy Gracie making breakfast at midnight to sober up the people playing cards in th…
Camp Siegfried is a quiet reminder of the dangers that radical ideology can bring, and asks us to step out of ourselves for a moment to truly explore how we are being treated and what we are…
It's a must-see, heartfelt, truthful in the writing and acting, vulnerable, and completely satisfying.
In this Christmas tale, Scrooge stand at the very center of lights, sound and action. Â It is theatrical magic, and Mays never lets us down for a minute. Â He is astonishing in his preci…
Wedded bliss. Marital splendor. Joyful union. Matrimony hath many the happy descriptor. But, in 1918, for a budding 18-year-old playwright named Noël Coward, marriage was The Rat Trap.Â
In her delightfully irreverent play The Patient Gloria, Gina Moxley takes aim at those preconceptions, joyously dissecting patriarchy with in-your-face abadon. Brilliant, funny and suber…
For the first time in 35 years, Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts returned to the stage. Envisioned initially by Ellington as a "Festival of Grace," provenance for Sacred Concerts is informed…
Wendy Moten ascended to the Birdland stage with a smile and charm that lit up the room. From her first words and the comfortable swing tempo of her first song, All of Me, Moten emerged as a …
It is 90 minutes of us, of the deep down don't show to the world us. It's not to be missed.
Sandra is a marathon feat of storytelling, following the footsteps of a woman who risks everything in service of a friend, who has apparently disappeared while on a trip to Mexico. As the m…
The second the curtain went up and the quartet began to sing I relaxed, knowing I was going to hear performances of extremely high quality. Victoria Clark, who walks on water in my opinion, …
Evanston, IL seems an unlikely spot to serve as the frozen, dark epicenter of suicidal thoughts and vanished pasts. But for Peter, a salt truck driver, and his co-worker Basil, its icy roads…
While the collaboration between pop energy and emotional storytelling serves as a fun punch-line, most songs did little to further the emotional journey after one's initial joy of recognizin…
Tracy Thorne writes and performs a powerful monologue about keeping secrets.
Steve Martin is multi-talented beyond compare, and what better way to showcase his life's memories illustrated by the engaging artwork of Harry Bliss on display in Number One is Walking, sur…
The rich baritone voice of raconteur Frank Zilinyi launched Radiotheatre's deliciously macabre exordium of The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street, a dark, spellbinding tale of New York City hist…
Everything old is new again in East Side After Dark at the Café Carlyle. In their return engagement at Café Carlyle, cabaret (and husband and wife) team John Pizzarelli and Jessica Mol…
