Sunday, November 12, 2017
You will not soon forget THE BAND’S VISIT. Nor should you. In a small Israeli town (circa 1996) in the desert – its people are waiting for something different – anything – to hap…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:54AMSunday, November 5, 2017
In this uneven and unbalanced revisal of the 1988 multiple award winning production of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang you may find yourself as confused as its leading character Rene Galli…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:24AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
It’s virtually impossible to fill those bunny rabbit slippers worn so majestically and confidently by Harvey Fierstein in his original production of TORCH SONG TRILOGY some 35 years ago wh…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:06AMSunday, October 29, 2017
At the Wednesday evening performance that I attended (10/25/17) James Morgan (Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company) in his opening remarks in his own inimitable style announced that…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
This Roundabout revival of J. B. Priestley’s three act drama is just adequate. And seems longer than it actually is. There are some high points and an equal amount of low as d…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:04AMThursday, September 28, 2017
This newest play by Amy Herzog and directed by Anne Kauffman features a cast of five women spearheaded by Carrie Coon as Mary Jane. You wouldn’t want to be in her shoes. She is strong, c…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:48AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Welcome to the dystopian world of Anthony Burgess as seen through the eyes of Alexandra Spencer-Jones set in England – Today. It might be better set in 1984. This ultra-violent, unpleasa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Sarah Ruhl’s mom Kathleen grew up playing Peter Pan in Iowa. As in why oh why oh why-o? Excuse me that’s Ohio. In any event she played Peter in Community Theater in Iowa. Now …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:24AMWednesday, August 30, 2017
You know, he’s the guy with the glasses perched atop his mostly bald pate. Prince. Hal Prince. Producer. Director. Visionary. Twenty one count ‘em twenty one Tony Awards – …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Jerry Lewis passed away last week. If you are of a certain age, that is a notable item for throughout his long and public life he was a man of consequence. He was indeed worthy of a “f…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:04PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Chances are there are not too many people who have heard of the American artist John Banvard who found his fifteen minutes of international fame painting a three mile long “moving” panor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:05PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Beth David and Esteban Bravo have created an instant masterpiece. It is magical and moving with a beautiful score. Without a single word of dialogue it conveys what one’s heart tru…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:05PMMonday, July 24, 2017
Are we at The Public Theater or La Mama or some Greek amphitheater to witness the revenge tragedy of Hamlet starring Oscar Isaac (scampering around barefoot in his black undies and te…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Playwright Meghan Kennedy remembers Mama in her scattered memory kitchen sink drama NAPOLI, BROOKLYN – a series of short all-around-the-mulberry-bush scenes now playing off-Broadway at the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PMThursday, July 6, 2017
When does two plus two not equal four? When you are being subjected to torture till submission. That is the horrific answer that George Orwell proposed with his ground breaking 1949 nove…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:12AMSaturday, 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 t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AMSaturday, 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 Judge to the …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:54AMMonday, 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 Hel…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:24PMSaturday, 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 11:42AMFriday, 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 hu…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AMThursday, 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 the audience.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:18PMThere 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMWednesday, 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 exploding,…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PMThis 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 excepti…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMTuesday, 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. Maki…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:06PMMonday, 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 PRESENT LAUG…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AMSunday, 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 09:12AMSaturday, 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 heartbre…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:48AMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:02PMTuesday, 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 his…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:24AM 
