Friday, June 7, 2013
This one person multi-media production does nothing to make you want to run out and read anything that Susan Sontag ever wrote - especially her journals on which SONTAG: REBORN is based - ed…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 08:31AMThursday, May 23, 2013
For all you lonely young singles out there, here is a show for you. But be forewarned: drinking and falling in lust with the wrong person in a bar could be dangerous to your health. But …
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMMonday, May 20, 2013
MURDER BALLAD - a lusty rock opera fable for our times
REVIEW will be posted May 23rd, 2013
MURDER BALLAD was originally produced in New Yrok City by the Manhattan Theatre Club
www.Mur…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 07:22AMThursday, May 9, 2013
You will be amazed, surprised and thrilled. You will laugh. You will sing along. You will come under the spell of the magic created by some of the best creative minds and performers on…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 10:27AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
For anyone seeking some biographical information about super agent to the A-list stars Sue Mengers during her heyday of 1970’s Hollywood just GOOGLE. If you desire to see the next to…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 10:23AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
From the Barrington Stage Musical Theater Lab to the Duke on 42 Street comes an odd, ambitious and contemporary new musical THE MEMORY SHOW by Sara Cooper (Book & Lyrics) and Zach Redler…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:58AMSunday, April 28, 2013
Stark, searing and sensational. The best revival or new play I have seen this season. This production of the timeless ORPHANS by Lyle Kessler excels on so many levels under the expert di…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AMFriday, April 26, 2013
What’s most missing in this Hollywood artifact dug up by the Roundabout Theatre Company - not seen here for sixty years? A biting edge and that most important word - STYLE.
I…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:42AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
It’s 1937 and Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane) headliner at The Irving Place Theatre where burlesque is gasping its final breath and the balcony is a playground for homosexual hanky panky …
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:34AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
The Richard Greenberg prolific writing factory has been working overtime this season. With mixed results. His adaptation of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S has prematurely closed. His boo…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Can it be possible? Can MOTOWN, the musical produced and written by Motown’s founder Berry Gordy (an excellent Brandon Victor Dixon) run off with many of the musical awards this seas…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:20AMMonday, April 15, 2013
The much ballyhooed, highly hyped, multiple award winning Royal Shakespeare Company musical MATILDA has opened on Broadway with four young girls alternating in the part of the highly intelli…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Can a bevy of high kicking and singing drag queens led on by Lola (a phenomenal Billy Porter - a composite of Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Whitney Houston and Effie from Dreamgirls) save the…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 08:46AMSunday, April 7, 2013
Full speed ahead! And the pace never lets up in this respectful yet disappointing expose of tabloid journalism by Nora Ephron circa 1985. We are barraged by the cast with short, loud mac…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 08:34AMFriday, March 29, 2013
Most everything about the new musical HANDS ON A HARDBODY is wonderful. Everything, that is, except its title. A title that doesn’t sing - doesn’t say this is a musical.
A…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 02:02PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
In the opening moments of this disjointed, noiresque, bummer of a production the question is asked, “Where is she?” referring to the heroine of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S - Hol…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:40PMFriday, March 22, 2013
It’s not diamonds that are a girl’s best friend but booze in this admirable but creaky revival of HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Anita Loos who is most famous for writing “Gentlemen Pre…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:37PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Is this really how the Me-Generation, the I-Generation, the I-Pod, I-Pad Generation thinks and acts to survive and get ahead to achieve what they think they want?
The answer from young pla…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:31PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
June 28, 1969. It’s a hot and muggy night and the gays and lesbians of Greenwich Village New York City have been shattered by the death of their beloved icon Judy Garland - Patron Sa…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:26PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
There’s a ball, a banquet, a bachelor looking for a friend, a newly empowered Ella, a flying fairy godmother, Venetian glass slippers, dancing trees, a fox, a raccoon, an election,…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:16PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
In this splendid revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1980 Pulitzer award winning play TALLEY’S FOLLY the language of love reigns supreme. It’s July 4th 1944.
As beautifully direc…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:03PMFriday, March 8, 2013
Texas is noteworthy for two things - the Alamo and Ann Richards who became the 45th Governor of the Lone Star State quite by accident, a twist of fate, her tenacity and hard work ethic insti…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 12:50PMMonday, March 4, 2013
At the couldn’t-come-fast-enough conclusion of Amy Herzog’s newest foray into drama BELLEVILLE being presented by The New York Theatre Workshop, Amina (Pascale Armand) the French…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 12:39PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Why? Why resurrect the most notorious flop in Broadway history? In 1983 MOOSE MURDERS opened and closed in a heartbeat - murdered by the critics. This production presented by The Beaut…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 11:05AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Hamish Linklater is one of our most promising A-list young actors. He is clever, concise and quirky. He did a brilliant job in David Ives’s “The School for Lies” at …
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 10:56AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
This most recent revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams, another Pulitzer Prize winning drama from the 1950’s (PICNIC being another) starring Scarlett Johansson who won…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMMonday, January 21, 2013
It’s difficult to imagine that the classic William Inge 1953 play PICNIC was awarded a Pulitzer Prize after seeing this unacceptable, clumsy and clunky production at the American Airli…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 10:15AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Juliana Smithton (an extraordinary Laurie Metcalf) - caustic, condescending, mocking mother of a distant runaway daughter, successful neurologist and scientific researcher who is in the thro…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 09:54AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Hi Oscar,
I hope this finds you doing great and enjoying the Holidays. I wanted to get you my new single release. I know it’s late in the season to release a Holiday song, but I never …
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:59PMSunday, December 16, 2012
Lincoln Center Theater has delivered a one-two punch in its gritty, powerful and sterling 75th anniversary revival of GOLDEN BOY by Clifford Odets now playing at the Belasco Theatre where it…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:53PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
STUDIO 54 has its 54 Below and now 59E59 has 59 Above where the very talented Penny Fuller is appearing in this one act, hard to remember title, sixty minute, almost one woman chamber-cum-ca…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 01:40PM