The Front Row Center

Why did I start Usher Nonsense and then Front Row Center? In my view, theatre is one of the top reasons to celebrate being human. I love stepping out of my home and into a dark theatre full of strangers to watch talented actors perform. It’s all about the inspiration for me. I willingly let myself be guided through any story they wish to tell, as long as they keep me engaged. If I attend a show that doesn’t quite hit the mark, I feel compelled to steer you away from it. I don’t want you to waste your time at a performance that doesn’t live up to expectations. I’ll do whatever it takes to redirect you – I’ll block the entrance, swing from the rafters, or even shout “FIRE!” just to keep you from feeling let down. I’ll suggest you do something more worthwhile with your evening, like saving your money for a dinner with a friend you haven’t caught up with in ages or taking a stroll with your dog, child, or partner. Even going to bed early is a better choice than attending a mediocre show. I admit it: I have high standards when it comes to ushering and theatre experiences.

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The Hot Sardines

6 days ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsThe Hot Sardines is one of the best old-time jazz bands I have enjoyed seeing. Many of you may know them from their sold-out Joe’s Pub shows, and they bring that magic to the Birdland stage and making the room come alive from the first note. They are a celebration of the music of the early 20th century and a celebration of us, where we’ve been and how that relates to where we are now. Their music is rejoicing in life, in sound, in stories.
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1 week ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Sarah Downs

By Sarah DownsI honestly don’t quite know how to describe Bear Grease. It’s a musical theater / night club act / low comedy / video show all jumbled into one. It has some really fun, but it’s overly ambitious, disorganized and definitely niche.
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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.
At The Barricades

1 week ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsWhat is the truth of war? The bottom line of it? People, average, everyday humans kill other average, everyday humans for a belief, a cause, a hope for a better world. That, better, of course, is always subjective, based on the wants and beliefs of the side you are on. The belief that particular members of the world are inferior, that a certain political stance overrides another. Often, the beliefs center on racism, sexism, and separatism of the other.
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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.
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3 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Sarah Downs

By Sarah DownsImagine being an African American female doing the back-breaking labor of washing clothes and bedding by hand, for a mostly white clientele, for pennies. While also raising children. Worn out from washing and ironing from morning to night only to have clients pay less than they owe, hand them cans of soup in lieu of money, or flat out to refuse to pay at all.
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.
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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.