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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersCommissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club, Dakar 2000, by Rajiv Joseph, is a lie from beginning to end. The author lies to us for effect and the characters lie to each other and themselves, all leaving the audience on constantly shifting sand.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersThe past and the present exist simultaneously at The Soho Playhouse’ presentation of Gil Scott-Heron’s Bluesology, a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron‘s work (who you may know from his iconic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised). The performance brings his wit, wisdom, power, and grit forward to today at a time when his words ring out as timeless. Where the struggles he talks and sings about haven’t dissipated, haven’t left us.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersI spent time with Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando last night. Together. In the same room. In his expertly crafted play Kowalski, playwright Gregg Ostrin gives us the first meeting of these two theatrical icons prior to A Streetcar Named Desire‘s Broadway debut.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | David Walters
By David WaltersShow Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II was first performed in 1927 and has stood the test of time with its music to still put a contemplative song in our hearts (Ol’ Man River), a spring in our step (Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man), and imbue a soul wrenching tear (Bill). It is considered one of the first stepping stones to the modern American musical utilizing song to further plot.
