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1 week ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
by Holli HarmsIt is Monday night, and Dan Jr. has five more days to go before he stages his big comeback. Well, not his comeback so much as his actual fight. Circumstances beyond his control kept him from his battle five years ago. The fight that would have made father and family proud. This is the opening to the gripping, Fight Night, now playing at 59E59 Theaters. Dan Jr’s family members are known boxing men.
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1 week ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsBroadway has got it! A hit musical to stand the test of time! Stand back, because BOOP! The Musical book by Bob Martin, music by David Foster, and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead is the real deal! It will enchant, delight, and have you cheering for Betty and her cast of friends, feminists, and doubters.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsLiving in the now, in your art, is what John Mullican’s new play “In the Unlikely Event of an Actual Emergency“, playing at The Chain Theatre, is entreating us to practice. Fear stops us from doing our art and from being the whole person we can be, but what if we were faced with an unbelievable life-threatening moment that wakes us up to our true selves? That life-threatening moment comes to life in this remarkable true story about the accident on January 23, 1982.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsI’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, written by Mona Pirnot, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, and starring David Greenspan himself, is a cathartic evening for anyone in the theater world, especially a playwright. This is a refreshing piece of true theater that cannot exist anywhere but on stage. Mona Pirnot pushes us with her words, and Greenspan is her muse with his indescribable performance style, stage presence, and pure self-expression that considers the audience.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsHilariously funny, uncomfortably funny, astute, emotional, and dark. This is Chisa Hutchinson’s staggering new play Amerikin. It is about the collateral damage of misunderstandings we live with in our striving for acceptance and community. Amerikin transcends stereotype and instead deals with real humans who are complicated in their beliefs, their wants, and fears.
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4 weeks ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsMusic sees more and hears more than we do. It brings to us our spiritual selves, reflecting our beauty, toxicity, imaginations, and dreams. It is the sum of our souls. The Anderson Brothers Present the Journey of Jazz at Birdland is all of that and more. For 90 minutes, the brothers and their band bring the transforming diverse jazz sounds of Ellington, Brubeck, Armstrong, Gillespie, Davis, Coltrane, and more.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsMaybe Tomorrow is the story of a marriage in crisis, of the difficulties a couple faces when one partner has lost the understanding of what is real and what is not. The framing of this tale of Ben ( Dan Amboyer) and Gail’s ( Elizabeth A. Davis) relationship that is challenged, and pushed is a bathroom. The bathroom is supposed to be set in a trailer park mobile home. However, the bathroom on stage would fit better in a lush elegant Hotel than in a trailer park. Confusing.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsMarriage, companionship, the years spent together, the connection between two people—these are things we can and do take for granted, that the other person is there and will always be there. Then one day they are not, and we find ourselves alone but for our TV and children. This derailment some never recover from. Set in Del Ray, Florida, Touch, written by Lori Goodman, is a play about lifting oneself and moving on.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsThe theme of Arthur Miller’s The Price is the power of money over our lives—how it frees us when it flows and holds us down when it doesn’t, our dependence on it and love for it. The belief is that life is easier with it— so, so much easier. Money is the means to security and freedom, but it comes with a Gollum attached that can lead to greed and shutting out those you care about, those you call family. The set is an attic of a condemned Manhattan building in 1968.
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1 month ago | 
thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms
By Holli HarmsComedian/songstress Jaz Zapp’s The Share Show is exactly that, a show where Jaz shares both herself and her friends, their music, and their comedy. In a fun way, it is also the Cher show where Jaz parodies some of Cher’s most famous songs. “Do you believe in Life After Love…” becomes “Do You Believe in Doge after condom.” Clever, intriguing, funny twists on classic songs.
