36 stories by "Nicole Itkin"
Schmigadoon is funny and smart and perfect for the whole family. The second the show ended, everyone around me was on their feet.
The post Schmigadoon appeared first on The Front Row Center.
Bug discusses how quickly beliefs can turn into delusions can turn into a loosening grip on sanity. It asks at what point we start believing and how we decide we should stop. It asks us how …
Through an extensive collection of interviews, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist walks us through the stories of Miranda's projects. From Hamilton to Encanto, Pollack-Pelzner…
By Nicole Itkin Octet is a musical in song-cycle form. The musical takes us into a support group for technology addicts, walking us through the eight group members' individual struggles with…
Over the course of the evening, Jeff Ross gave us a comedy show that wasn't. It was funny. It was also the story of his life. It was him.
The post Take a Banana for the Ride appeared first o…
Off Night is a new late night variety show, hosted by Ephriam Birney and Ryan Quigley. Here was the plan, the hosts told us, they had planned an evening but had asked their writers to throw …
A different show every night. Carl Holder's Out of Order is a war between flexibility and specificity.
The post Out of Order appeared first on The Front Row Center.
The Value by Nicholas Dunn is engaging, eerie, and deeply questioning.
The post The Value at the Rockaway Theatre Company appeared first on The Front Row Center.
By Nicole Itkin Pangea is a supper club in the East Village with adorable sequined animal pictures on the walls, great food and drinks, and even better entertainment. This night, Amy Engelha…
A splendid premise, but ultimately an experience so confusing as to be disappointing.
The post The Death of Rasputin appeared first on The Front Row Center.
Music. Love. This show is about the beauty of sound, power dynamics, and love that used to be.
The post Babe appeared first on The Front Row Center.
By Nicole Itkin Ximena Garnica, one of the creators of A Meal at HERE, gave a brief speech at the end of the show, bidding us goodnight and hoping we would consider the show memorable. They …
The hour-long musical read-through "I Love You Because" is a love letter to love and New York. It was uplifting, but not innovative.
The post I Love You Because at Green Room 42 appeared fi…
Shanna Sharp told us to prepare to get emotional during her show: "To Manhattan, With Love." She wasn't wrong!
Their voices, the scents that wafted in, the brief moments of song, and the rain that drizzled down at one point---all of it made every moment come to life.ÂÂ
A masterpiece! This festival runs until June 30, and you don't want to miss it!
Charming, pressing, and lovely, the show is a fantastic look at how innocence doesn't last, and yet how desperation can end up close to bliss.ÂÂ
Rhonda Ross, in an evening about the power of thought, tells us that mindset can make heaven into hell or hell into heaven. And I believe it. Take a listen.
Throughout Sam Shepard's Simpatico, there's a fascinating sense of all is not well and it's right there for the actors to grab onto and play with. Indeed, sometimes they do"which is when the…
A lovely evening on love and nostalgia.
A sweet little gem: the most earnest show I've seen this year.
In this one, clowns take over a bar.
5 plays. 10 minutes each. This is the Estrogenius play festival in Under St. Marks: a tiny, but lovely theater. Here's a look at the five plays
The story of the 1941 labor strike at Disney; throughout the show, each actor tries to woo us over to their side of the fight, and each is remarkably convincing.
It's remarkable how talented this band is and how much fun they're having (and have had) as they hit 25 years together as a band.
