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1 week ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WalersIt’s dance: graceful leaping, pulling, carrying, lifting, bodies beautifully twisted and arched in space. It’s circus: gravity-defying balancing, juggling, magic, suspense. It’s theater: three friends live together in a small space (30″x30″x7′); one finds another place to live and decides to move.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersIt’s not easy living in New York City. It’s not easy being an artist in New York City. It’s not easy being a woman artist living in New York City. She Takes Flight is composed of the personal stories, told through monologues and skits, of five actresses, aged 40s to 60s, and their journeys living, creating, and becoming themselves in a city that both rewards and punishes being a partner, mother, daughter, and a woman.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersWe hear on the loudspeaker, “Kevin. Please, come inside when you finish that smoke.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersThere was a time in NYC when the city was filled with off-off-broadway spaces that were cleared out, damp basement spaces that had been given a deep scrub, a couple of cycles of a dehumidifier, chairs were set up, and a performance space was declared. Donald Margulies’ play Collected Stories (’97 Pulitzer Prize finalist) takes place in the ’90s, a time when those places existed.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersDanish writer Olga Ravn‘s book The Employees is the launching point for director Łukasz Twarkowski‘s explosive theatrical production of the same name.
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2 months ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersDonmar Warehouse‘s production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is now playing on this side of the pond for a limited engagement through April 27 at St. Ann’s Warehouse. This is a new version of the play, written and directed by Benedict Andrews.
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2 months ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersMasterclass is closing out its world-wide victory-lap, having won the hearts, minds and patriarchy bashing distortions of the current world order. Defying any theatrical categorization, Masterclass starts off as farcical mimicry of a televised interview (two chairs, coffee table, fake fig leaf plants), by 70s costumed Feidlim Cannon, of the mad theatrical genius, Truscott, and his misogynistic writing and work.
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2 months ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersCurrently playing at The Club at La Mama is a meaningful assembly of ten actors who have been working together for five years with a technique called real-time acting (stemming from Brecht and the Open Theater) developed by Paul Binnerts and Nancy Gabor. The group is called You’re Never Too Old to Play and their ages range from 74 to 98. The show they’re presenting is called Above Ground – Not Exactly a Comedy.
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2 months ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersThe talented Paddy Cullivan (comedian, educator, showman, satirist, composer, and musician) is traveling the States with his one-man “historical entertainment,” I Can’t Believe It’s Not Ireland! There’s only one show left in his US tour, March 14 at Port Jefferson, Long Island.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersTwo plays, one powerful connection. After 300 submissions, culling that list, and a round of readings of eight semi-finalists, two winning plays from Urban Stages’ Dynamic Duos competition (two-character one-acts on any subject), have been paired and given a production. The Audit, by Lynda Crawford, and The American Dream, by Juan Ramirez Jr., currently running together on the same bill through March 16.
