Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Try to imagine having the world’s worst hangover. A major Gin Fuzz. Thoughts and images banging around your almost comatose brain. Thoughts - past and present. Loving thoughts. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:26AMSaturday, November 21, 2015
“If it’s not one thing, it’s another,” speaks Annie Wilkes (Laurie Metcalf) to her unable to walk captive author Paul Sheldon (Bruce Willis) after a pivotal moment that shocks the au…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:02PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Celebrating the harvest with paper wishes hung on trees, all was well on the West Coast in the Japanese communities until Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan. Not only did the United States…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:10AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
It’s all about the songs! And Cuban immigrants Gloria Garcia Fajardo (a stunning Ana Villafane) and Emilio Estefan (a macho and sexy Josh Segarra). A real love story and a real crowd-p…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Sometimes one needs to learn to be patient. Take for example Prince Charles, heir apparent to the throne of England. He will be KING when and if his mother Queen Elizabeth II ever abdica…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:43AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Dogs do think. And love. And have feelings. They can be independent. And playful. Sniffing and running and thumping and at certain times hot for other dogs.
In A. R. Gurney’s del…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:00AMFriday, November 6, 2015
In this dark and sordid saga of a late 19th century French love triangle plus mama the immense sets by Beowulf Boritt – while impressive - all but dwarf the actors in what is in reality an…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:30AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
The very clever Joe DiPietro has written a very clever play that brings “That Girl” – Marlo Thomas back to the New York stage where she rightfully belongs. Her distinctive voice is h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:50AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
You just might want to see this finely crafted and multi textured production at least three times to fully grasp the artistic merits and musical majesty presented at The Public Theater in it…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:44AMSaturday, October 31, 2015
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So the adage goes. So why give the delightful DAMES AT SEA an overdose of growth hormones that turns the charmingly tiny 1968 Valentine to 1930’s b…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:44AMFriday, October 30, 2015
An excellent ensemble cast of six brings to life this sporadically amusing and mostly depressing play by Stephen Karam set in downtown New York during the Thanksgiving festivities of the Bla…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:31AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Never could I ever imagine that I would refer to a musical score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick as forgettable. FIORELLO! was my very first Broadway musical and I can still see it in my…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:58AMSunday, October 18, 2015
Growing old gracefully wasn’t what D. L. Coburn had in mind when he wrote THE GIN GAME a drama/comedy for two aging actors – a slight, funny yet moving play that mysteriously won a Pulit…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:21AMFriday, October 16, 2015
Hop on board! You’ve never been on a journey like this. Ever. And I advise you to book passage immediately in this KEEN COMPANY production at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row ONLY …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:58AMMonday, October 12, 2015
As a devoted fan of Nina Arianda I looked forward to seeing this first Broadway joint production (Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival) of Sam Shepard’s…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:52AMSaturday, October 10, 2015
A spacecraft named OLD TIMES has landed at the American Airlines Theatre helmed by Douglas Hodge and carrying as its messengers Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly. Penned by Harold Pint…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:27PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Make a fist as if you are about to knock on a door. Then air-knock once with your fist. You’ve just signed “yes” in American Sign Language (ASL). And I could use this sign until …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:43AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
A breath of romantic fresh air is wafting through the Davenport Theatre on West 45th Street, where the intimate chamber musical DADDY LONG LEGS based on the should-be-more-famous novel by J…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:42AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Georgia McBride. Never heard of her? Neither did I - until Matthew Lopez’s imagination decided to document her rise to stardom from Elvis impersonator in a seedy Florida dive in downto…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:00AMSaturday, August 29, 2015
A mythical musical where mayhem reigns after the death of a Pope - takes place at Theatre 80 and not the Sistine Chapel as stated in the program of this new musical written entirely by Adam …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:33AMThursday, August 27, 2015
This 1921 obtuse, dense, bizarre, depressing, esoteric and epic 434 line poem by T. S. Eliot has been dramatized and directed by the brothers Domig: concept/installation by Daniel and perfor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:03AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Pure theatrical gold. Everything about this production is ready to move into the major leagues. Hopefully it will find a new home AS IS in an open run at a small off-Broadway theatre aft…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:40PMMonday, August 24, 2015
The question isn’t whodunit? But why did they do it? I am still bewildered by this dreadful play starring Everett Quinton who portrays a wealthy hot to trot woman of a certain age, Idris…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:08AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Perhaps it is the heat. Perhaps it is the fact that there are over 185 shows participating in the 19th New York Fringe Festival to choose from that accounted for such a small turnout at Th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:51PMTuesday, July 28, 2015
7 rectangular tables. 7 plastic chairs. Some potted plants. 7 microphones and a large acoustically challenged space (THEATRE 79) normally home to the New York Theatre Workshop greet yo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:13AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
This ambitious and epic original musical will be remembered for three things: the Act I faux underwater finale where anti-hero John Newton (Josh Young) is saved by his slave/friend/confida…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:12AMSunday, July 12, 2015
I was there. Thursday July 9th, the night after the “snatching of the cellphone scandal” when Patti LuPone strode on stage before the start of the ill-fated SHOWS FOR DAYS enunciating …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:13AMSunday, June 28, 2015
About the only redeeming feature of the lonely, annoying, whining and very out gay-boy/man Jordan Berman (Gideon Glick) in SIGNIFICANT OTHER is his Grandmother Helene Berman (a twinkling Bar…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:51AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
I never imagined myself having to critique God but here I am reviewing the Almighty in this ninety minute one act stand-up comedy routine starring the droll and personable Jim Parsons who de…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:32PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Robert Creighton, the star of CAGNEY - an ambitious, superficial biographical musical of the legendary stage and screen star James Cagney - has a fine tenor voice, nimble feet and at times a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:45AMSunday, May 10, 2015
Under the tutelage of the usually perfect Bartlett Sher this revival is a really big production with one really big problem. There is a big orchestra (29). A big cast (51) on a big stage…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AM 
