Sunday, August 4, 2013
Now that the air conditioning is working sporadically at Walkerspace (it’s disabled during the play and put back on during intermission) the only discomfort is sitting through this lon…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:24AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Irene Castle (a superb Lynne Wintersteller) was certainly a complex and fascinating woman as portrayed in the new musical CASTLE WALK as part of the New York Musical Festival’s tenth s…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:00AMMonday, July 22, 2013
Can a thirty year old Little Harry (a tall, harried and excellent Robb Sapp) break free of Big Harry (Philip Hoffman) - a Don Juan wannabe without hurting the family business - an Italia…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:45AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Into the woods and wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, where Big Foot aka the Sasquatch - Arthur (a believably human and centered T.J. Mannix) has been sited by a local dim witted camper an…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:36AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
In this Marx Brothers, Saturday Night Live, Sid Caesar Show of Shows inspired Victorian fractured fairy tale farce THE EXPLORERS CLUB written by Nell Benjamin which can at times be hysterica…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:01AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
There was Bernie Madoff. The Unavoidable Disappearance of TOM DURNIN is not a play about Bernie Madoff. It is a compelling new work by Steven Levenson about a similar man in a similar si…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:51AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
What if? What if you imagined what it would be like to be hired by “the lady of the house” in Malibu to work in her self designed basement mall - a series of “shoppesR…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:01AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:00AMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:56AMFriday, May 17, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:07AMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:11AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:11AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:39AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:56AMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:05AMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:26AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:11AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:23AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:52AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:10AMSaturday, 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,…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:05AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:05AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:28AMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:28AMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:50AM 
