Tulis McCall

New York

Freelance Writer at The Front Row Center

#Actor, #Comedian, #Writer, WomanOfACertainAge, #Producer of Monologues and Madness, Creator of The Front Row Center Reviews

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1 week ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallPrince Faggot is a beguiling tragicomedy. “Beguiling” – I don’t often use that word, but it is the one that surfaced. Jordan Tannahill‘s play is a dense tapestry of wonder, imagination, sexuality, humor and stinging observation. That’s just for starters.
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2 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallThere is a lot of star power treading the boards in New York Theatre these days. Jean Smart is completing the circle by adding her superb performance as Isabelle Scutley A/K/A Izzy. SUPERB. The time is 1989, eons before the MeToo movement, in Mansfield, Louisiana that is located as far away from Feminism as you can get and still be on the planet. Mansfield is so far away from just about everything that it is on the cutting edge of nothing.
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2 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCall“Angry Alan” is an earthquake of a production. It will lift you out of your lives, the way only extraordinary theatre can and return you to them filled to the brim with the experience of this play. I am reminded of what Liv Ullman wrote in the program notes for “A Streetcar Named Desire” when it was produced at BAM in 2009.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

3 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallBack in the day we would have called this “A Happening”.it was the time of “Dionysus in 69” by The Performance Group, and works by Judith Malina and Julian Beck’s The Living Theatre. The lines between performer and audience were blurred decades ago. with HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, now at The Public Theater, the lines are obliterated. Not to worry. No one is dragged on stage against their will. No one is coerced into doing anything. Julia Masli is a gentle spirit.
A Freeky Introduction

3 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallStop reading and make a reservatioin for this spectacular event. Atlantic Stage II. We wil lwait. Welcome back. A FREEKY INTRODUCTION – Don’t let the title fool you. The only thing freeky about “A Freeky Introduction” is the astonishing amount of love, smarts and hope that one person – NSangou Njikam (Freeky Dee) – can fit into one tight 85 minutes, never mind one theatre. With the aid of his DJ and sidekick DJ Monday Blue Njikam leaps onto the stage and into our hearts.
The Front Row Center

3 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallLunar Eclipse is a mild investigation into a decades old marriage that still has some mystery left in the saddlebags. Reed Birney as George and Lisa Emery as Em imbue every ounce of their considerable talents into their characters. It is not quite enough to make this production soar. Donald Margulies has written a story that, at first glance, is chock-a-block full of metaphors and symbolism. Set in Western Kentucky, it is the night of a lunar eclipse.
The Imaginary Invalid

3 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallRed Bull’s “Imaginary Invalid” is a perfection of a confection that will soothe the blues we are all experiencing. I PROMISE it will make you laugh. It made me laugh, and I am not a laugher. I am an observer who, when something is funny, often makes a mental not to that effect. But laugh out loud? Not so much. Wasn’t I suprised to be one of the people who nearly barked.
AN UPDATE ON NEA SUPPORT from MCC Theater

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

In the late hours of last Friday evening, along with many of our colleagues from across the arts sector, MCC Theater was informed that our FY25 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts was abruptly terminated at the direction of the federal government.
Pirates! The Penzance Musical

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCallI have no idea what this enormous production is. Well, I know I saw a bunch of actors having a great time onstage. They sing. They D-A-N-C-E. They leap tall buildings at a single bound. Ships. They leap sips. To and from Ships. Ramin Karimloo (Pirate King) is the point person for that, and he does not disappoint. I am not a Gilbert & Sullivan aficionado – and it might have helped if I were.
Ceremonies In Dark Old Men

2 months ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Tulis McCall

By Tulis McCall“Ceremonies In Dark Old Men” by Lonnie Elder III, is a long, beautifully constructed, old fashioned play. The story is laid out with laser precision within the first few minutes. The time is the early 1950’s. The place is Harlem, specifically 126th Street between Lenox and Seventh. We are in the barbershop of one Russell Parker (Norm Lewis) who, when we meet him, has not been doing much barbering for the past few years.