1,527 stories from The Front Row Center
In addition to not remembering the piece on second viewing, I'm disappointed to admit that (upon rereading my review) the same issues rung true and that even upon a second viewing with a dif…
Blake Allen's Insomnia is a cerebral, enigmatic, and mystifying artistic creation chronicling a night of an insomniac narrator. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Sleep and Waking" …
It's a rich play that can be seen several times and still not reveal all of its nuances.
This is the story of how Sayet has become a magnet for Native American stories and is now a walking compendium of this knowledge. Â She is spreading the word as fast as she can. Â This i…
"A Man of No Importance" is a musical where you can sit back, relax, and as the saying goes "let them entertain you."
Benjamin Franklin the man emerged as a frowzy, flawed, and crafty roué, relentlessly attempting to seduce the married Mme Brillon. Franklin deftly engaged and modified his façon de parle…
This is Broadway musical extraordinaire!
This play is titled Chester Bailey, but it should be titled Philip Cotton.Â
Maestro Botstein and The Orchestra Now demonstrated their capacity to express powerful rich intones, frenetic fugatos, and exquisite, intense subtleties.
The work brings fresh urgency to the 1980's aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution, when young citizens experimented with forgoing the Communist Party in favor of the cocktail party,
Wendel's songs are strikingly original, expressive, and extraordinarily inventive. His ideas and improvisations are freely chromatic, virtuosic, and organic, and he employed subtle be-bop id…
not on par with the material
This cast deserves high praise for maintaining the challenging, complex characters and tensions while also charming and engaging viewers who could not resist being sympathetic and moved. The…
In Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, we see a story unfold before us like faded memories providing fragments of truth as father and son piece together their independent yet irrevocably conne…
Joan Didion's award-winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking is brought to life by the masterful talent of Kathleen Chalfant. She captures the very essence of Didion's pain over the death…
One of those plays where if you get distracted for one moment, you'll miss a gem of a line.
The performance of Mozart's Requiem, K526, was glorious and ecstatic. The sui generis admixture of rich sounds from soloists, chorus, and orchestra was superb. At the same time, the sumptuou…
Two short plays by pioneering Black author Alice Childress provide an especially nuanced look at the lives of Black women during and after the Jim Crow era.
A good assembly of talent at one of New York's loveliest theaters.
"Walking With Ghosts" is a meandering piece that wanders about like a lost child at a carnival. Â It samples food and rides and when the parents are not found it settles down and goes to s…
Wuthering Heights has gotten a makeover at St. Ann's Warehouse in a production that blows across the stage like a tempest on the moors. Imaginative and visually stimulating, with beautiful …
The more I think about it the more I love this production. It's visually striking, beautifully acted and deeply affecting. Previously to me the play has been more of a jagged little pill, …
Charlap opened with a sumptuous, gentle introduction to Tommy Dorsey's I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, leading to a string of some of the greatest songs of the American Songbook and jazz c…
A production top to bottom of perfection.
With the production's delights of flamenco dancing, passionate arias, magnificent costuming, staging, lighting, soaring melodies, and powerful drama, we ultimately gasp in awe at the power o…
