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 12:54PMIs 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 08:42AMKnee 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 12:06PMFrom 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 09:31AMI 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 09:12AMCan 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 08:48AMPulitzer 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 01:02PMWho 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 10:24AMNot 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. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:42PMYou 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 airspace has be…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMWhat 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:18AMI 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 si…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PMIt’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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PMWhat’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 04:06PMWhen 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 09:24AMSome 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 11:24AMIn 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 01:12PMFor 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 hav…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AMI 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 a ve…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMThe 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMThis new play by Nicky Silver could be subtitled REGRETS. In the absurd first act we find Irene (Holley Fain) and newlywed husband Martin (Michael Crane) having a face off in a room at the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:36AMAgainst 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 f…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:31AMOh 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 Choderlos…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:42AMLast time round, playwright Mike Bartlett skewered the Royal Family in King Charles III and now has tackled a royal-pain-in-the-ass-family in LOVE, LOVE, LOVE off-Broadway at the Laura Pels …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:12PMFrozen in time. And that’s how Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s THE FRONT PAGE begins under the precise and rapid fire direction of Jack O’Brien who keeps this old war horse alive a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:50AMIn Anton Chekov’s tragic-comedy THE CHERRY ORCHARD aristocratic spendthrift Madame Ranevskaya (a carefree albeit uncomfortable Diane Lane) returns from Paris jilted by her lover only to fa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:36AMWith all due respect my funny bone failed mightily to be tickled by this 18th century classic comedy of manners from the plumed quill of Oliver Goldsmith – adapted and directed by Scott Al…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:00AMTwo chairs. Two tables. Two actors. 80 minutes. No intermission. Additional tiered bleacher onstage seating added. Long narrow acting area. Is this a table tennis match …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:40AMJust when you think HOLIDAY INN, the new Irving Berlin Musical can’t possibly get any better – it does. With an affectionate and respectful wink to the original 1942 film starring Bing…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:56AMNick Kroll and John Mulaney met in college. They bonded – obviously having something in common. Something that some people might consider a bizarre sense of humor. Soon after they …
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