Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Oh, the glorious sound of words. The words of James Joyce and his muse/lover and eventual wife as interpreted by the multi talented Jonathan Brielle in his new musical HIMSELF and NORA.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:07AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
The management of the 45th Street Theatre should be ashamed for not having repaired their air conditioner where FLAMBE DREAMS is being performed under sweltering conditions. The heat in …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Where else will you find a love song entitled “Plumbing” sung in a harem in Turkey, accents (French, American, Italian, Greek, German, Russian, British and Turkish) running rampa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
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The ninth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival is off to a shaky start. He’s Not Himself, after eleven drafts, is just not ready. Chosen to be part of The Festiv…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
All those feisty female dinosaurs over at the SOHO Playhouse on Vandam Street are working their tails off as well as that other body part that is specifically male (something about frog DNA)…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:49AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Are you a puzzle fanatic? Do you like a good psychological mystery play? Will five excellent actors start those grey cells in your brain working overtime? Then 7th Monarch writte…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:17AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
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All hail Harvey and what he stands for. All hail all 6 foot 3 and a half inches of his white fuzzy frame that is invisible to the naked eye but can be seen by those who believe. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
There are many stars shining ever so brightly at the York Theatre where their revival of the cult Off-Broadway 1989 musical hit CLOSER THAN EVER by David Shire (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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As missed opportunities go this one is as colossal as Alexandre Dumas’ epic romantic tale of revenge, The Count of Monte Cristo, on which this new musical written by James Behr is…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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The Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles autobiographical, satirical and downright old fashioned three act comedy Love Goes to Press may have been written in 1944 but it was light ye…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:29AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
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The New York Theatre Workshop’s stage has been transformed into a Palestinian home complete with working kitchen where Fadwa Faranesh (a remarkable Lameece Issaq) holds court prep…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Two funny chaps from London - Daniel Clarkson (the tall one) and Jefferson Turner (the other) have taken on the monumental challenge of presenting all seven Harry Potter novels in a seventy …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2012
How best to encourage you to see The Roundabout Theatre Company’s imperfect but likable production of Simon Gray’s 1984 play THE COMMON PURSUIT? “Let me count the ways&…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:19AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
I heeded my own advice from my original review and saw Peter for the second time last evening, Friday May 4th, after being transferred from the Off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop where &…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2012
Get ready for your close up. It’s show time! At the revival meeting that is being held at the St. James Theatre called “Leap of Faith” an on stage security guy with…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:57AM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
It takes a village, sometimes an entire universe, to put all the pieces of that puzzle called a Broadway musical together to come up with a completely satisfying and entertaining production.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
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There are about three really funny things in DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER adapted by Robin Hawdon from the original French play by Marc Camoletti. best known for his international hit &…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The wonderful news is that THE LYONS that has recently transferred from The Vineyard Theatre with its original cast in tact is funnier and more emotionally involving than ever.Â
Linda Lav…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Good things really do come in very small packages as evidenced by the delightful new gem of a four character (each very interesting), two act comedy called PRATFALLS, written by Holly Webber…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
Love conquers all. A mugging. A murder. A double crossing buddy. A phony psychic. A potter’s wheel. And even death. Loves lives on in the amazing, top notch…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 29, 2012
Hardly making any waves at all is this new play by David Auburn, THE COLUMNIST produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre which deals with a homosexual tryst (w…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2012
They’ve taken the name Kowalski out of STREETCAR but the story remains the same for Belle Reve, the lost ancestral plantation co-owed by the manipulative, beyond her prime and close to…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
David Cromer is an extraordinarily astute director (Our Town, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and When the Rain Stops Falling) who elicits all of the nuances of a script and encourages his actors to…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
This zany British import comes our way via 1960’s Brighton, England via Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters’ 1740’s Venice. This new, freely adapted comedy by …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
There’s a lot to admire in this extremely well produced new “Blues and Jazz musical” at the Minetta Lane Theatre - THE CITY CLUB - that employs some of the best singers in …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:56AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
The mostly white and young audience gave a rousing, standing ovation at the end of CLYBOURNE PARK at the Walter Kerr Theatre where it has recently opened after its original incarnation at Pl…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center is now home to Vera Joseph (Mary Louise Wilson) and her grandson Leo (Gabriel Ebert). She’s 91. He’s 21.
A modern day, car…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2012
1925 was an auspicious year. Especially the month of October when Gore Vidal author of the 1960 scathingly sharp satire and up-to-the-minute mud slinging indictment of the political nomi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AM[SHARE]Something’s amiss in Argentina. Â If only Forbidden Broadway - the highly successful musical revue that satirized the Great White Way’s hits and misses - was still running they…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
Can Disney out Disney Disney? That’s the question here in this newest musical on the Broadway block - NEWSIES - based on the 1992 cult film of the same name with music by Alan Menk…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Looking for love and acceptance among the turtles and reptiles, birds and bees and dinosaurs at The Museum of Natural History our four energetic, sharp and funny infused heroes share their w…
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