Saturday, June 24, 2017
Condensing Horton Foote's 1954 three act play (which starred Kim Stanley) into a one hour forty five minute intermission-less one act is akin to Cinderella's step sisters trying to fi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 3, 2017
A provincial Russian town. 1836. Corruption is rampant. Cover-ups follow. Bribes disguised as loans (the new reimbursement program) flow freely. From the Mayor to the Jud…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2017
I had a dream. A wonderful dream…during the second act of the quite slow going WAR PAINT. Christine Ebersole had morphed from Elizabeth Arden into Mame and Patti LuPone from…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2017
OSLO an excellent production of an excellent play has moved upstairs from the smaller Mitzi E. Newhouse to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center " original cast intact. Through J…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2017
"Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew – Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two?" Christian Borle as Willy Wonka can! 'Cause he mixes it with love and wacky humor …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
And divine she is. Bette Midler. The voice is a bit rusty. But she still retains the spunk that made her famous. The comic timing. The tilt of the head. The wink to t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:18PM[SHARE]There are usually two sides to every story. In Lucas Hnath's brittle and fascinating new play A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2 based on what happened to Nora after she infamously left her husband a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
War is hell and so is trying to make it on Broadway with a new musical. It's not easy. In this well-intentioned but predictable BANDSTAND that begins with the sound of bombs explodin…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PM[SHARE]This play is important. This production is important. It deserves to be seen. It has to be seen. With an ensemble of seven extraordinary actors who play multiple parts with the e…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
Is she or isn't she? Only her Grand-mama knows for sure in this new musical version of the Anastasia legend "inspired by the Twentieth Century Fox Motion Pictures" especially the …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Knee brace comes to the rescue. Andy Karl brave heart that he is should be awarded a medal for performing above and beyond the call of duty despite a torn ligament in his left knee. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2017
From the ridiculous to the sublime. Two shows have recently opened on Broadway. Both are very funny. Both are completely different. They are THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG and PRES…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
I did not see the 2001 movie of the same title that has been adapted to the stage of the Walter Kerr Theatre by Craig Lucas (book) and score by Daniel Messe (rambling unmemorable background …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2017
Can a 62 year old gay expatriate ex-cocktail pianist lounging around in a book lined London flat find true love " finally find his soul mate " again – after so many heartbreaks …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage along with her longtime director Kate Whoriskey did extensive research in 2011 traveling to Reading Pennsylvania interviewing locals " especially factory w…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Who knew that Arthur Miller could be so funny? Leave it to Danny DeVito making his Broadway debut at 72 in this Roundabout production of THE PRICE to pull the rug out from under h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Not much has changed for the feel sorry for himself, sad and bewildered Jordan Berman (Gideon Glick) in this production that has transferred from off-Broadway to the larger Booth Theatre.Â…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
You are on an International flight. Heading back to the USA. Suddenly you are being diverted because of an emergency in NYC. It is September 11, 2001. American airspac…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
What the world needs now is NOT another revival of Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE so soon after the excellent Cherry Jones/Zachary Quinto revival of 2013 superbly directed by John T…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2017
I can't ever remember witnessing a world famous star or anyone for that matter eliciting such a thunderous and prolonged ovation as Glenn Close did on Thursday (2/16/2017) evening after sing…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
It's not a traditional play. More of an odyssey. A man searching for "something" " a man who has been married, happily it seems until the routine of married life wears thin.  Is h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
What's it all about Alfie? A question we should be asking James Lecesne the award winning author of this 95 minute no intermission rambling drama/comedy loosely directed by Tony Speciale…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 04:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
When you know your people, when you are so in tune with how they speak, how they react and interact (or not) with one another; when you have something important to say with compassion, insig…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
Some prefer their Chekhov straight up or neat as has been the traditional way of performing his classic tragi-comedies in the past. Not so for Andrew Upton who has taken on Chekhov's ver…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2016
In October 2010 I reviewed "In Transit" off Broadway at 59 E 59. It was intimate. A cast of seven. All superb singers whose "harmonies were closer than a jam packed subway car du…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2016
For anyone who hasn't heard of WEST SIDE STORY with its Jets and Sharks rival New York gangs or the Damon Runyon characters in GUYS AND DOLLS or the near to closing JERSEY BOYS you now have …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
I should start by advising you to hasten down to The Pershing Square Signature Center to see SWEET CHARITY running through January 8th 2017.  However I am a bit late. It's …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
The big question is – who of the five dead teenage choir members plus one "Baby Jane" doll-like mysterious girl who lost her head in a tragic accident on the Cyclone roller coaster in …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2016
This new play by Nicky Silver could be subtitled REGRETS. Â In the absurd first act we find Irene (Holley Fain) and newlywed husband Martin (Michael Crane) having a face off in a room at t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
Against a backdrop of the skyline of Manhattan circa 1979 an enormous gray cube sits center stage ready to come apart and miraculously be put back together again " much like the extended fam…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2016
Oh those idle rich. Oh how they are so easily bored. Oh how they can just as easily bore us. In this newest listless revival of Christopher Hampton's infamous adaptation of Chode…
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