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Monday, February 4, 2013

MOOSE MURDERS – REST IN PEACE by Oscar E Moore

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…

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Friday, February 1, 2013

THE VANDAL – by Hamish Linklater Off Off B’way at The Flea by Oscar E Moore

  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 …

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

This CAT scratches only the surface – Tennessee Williams revival by Oscar E Moore

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…

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Monday, January 21, 2013

PICNIC – Clumsy and clunky Roundabout Revival by Oscar E Moore

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…

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

THE OTHER PLACE – Laurie Metcalf’s descent into dementia by Oscar E Moore

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…

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Natalie Toro’s Christmas Gift by Oscar E Moore

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 …

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

GOLDEN BOY – Lincoln Center Theater champion by Oscar E Moore

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…

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Penny Fuller: 13 Things about Ed Carpolotti by Oscar E Moore

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…

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Monday, December 10, 2012

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS – Who do you trust? by Oscar E Moore

  There has been a lot of pre-opening discussion about the latest revival of David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, his 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning drama starring Al Pacino in the Willy L…

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

DEAD ACCOUNTS - a deadly sentimental journey by Oscar E Moore

On no account would I recommend DEAD ACCOUNTS, the new project, notice I did not write play, by Theresa Rebeck that is a sometimes amusing, sometimes boring and a totally unfulfilling evenin…

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Friday, December 7, 2012

THE MYSTERY of EDWIN DROOD – Exceptionally entertaining revival by Oscar E Moore

Whodunit?  Rupert Holmes, that’s who!  Responsible for Book, Music and Lyrics for this festive and frolicking, stylish and impeccably cast Roundabout revival of his award winning THE…

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

A CHRISTMAS STORY, the musical – Silly stuff but family fun nonetheless by Oscar E Moore

Santa has delivered a mixed bag of goodies just in time for the holidays.   A CHRISTMAS STORY, the musical - based on the book “In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash” by Jean She…

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

SCANDALOUS – Surprising, impressive and fascinating by Oscar E Moore

Aimee Semple McPherson - “Sister Aimee” - evangelist extraordinaire and media celebrity.  And now the subject of a surprisingly entertaining new musical by Kathie Lee Gifford - …

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE – Durang and Chekhov and Bucks County and over-the-top by Oscar E Moore

My funny bone seems to have become rusty, not finding very funny nor satisfying the new Christopher Durang dysfunctional family comedy VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE which is playing in…

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Monday, November 19, 2012

INNER VOICES – 3 Musical Monologues by Oscar E Moore

  Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director of PREMIERES was on a mission to create a new musical experience where she introduced and commissioned writers and composers who had not worked together …

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

ANNIE – Revival hits all the right notes – well, almost all by Oscar E Moore

With today’s depressing headlines - High Unemployment, Homelessness, Hurricanes and War - it’s a gosh darn shame that tickets to the oh so optimistic, tuneful and mostly delightf…

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Friday, November 16, 2012

GIANT – Fantastic musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s epic novel by Oscar E Moore

A marriage lasting twenty seven years - not without problems.  Set against the background of The Lone Star State - TEXAS.  He, Jordan “Bick” Benedict (Brian D’Arcy James)…

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

THE HEIRESS – Plain and Fancy Revival by Oscar E Moore

Can a shy, sheltered and awkward yet overly devoted daughter of a famous New York City doctor living luxuriously on Washington Square who already has enough money to live on from her mother&…

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee on the rocks by Oscar E Moore

Fifty years ago Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” took New York by storm establishing him as one of the most original and daring playwrights of his day…

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

CYRANO DE BERGERAC – takes a nose dive by Oscar E Moore

This Roundabout Theatre Company revival - with an odd contemporary translation full of anachronistic words and rhyming phrases by Ranjit Bolt (after Edmond Rostand) might be better entitled …

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Deanna Jent’s FALLING – grappling with autism at the Minetta Lane by Oscar E Moore

It’s unclear where exactly FALLING, a new 75 minute play by Deanna Jent, takes place.  It could be in anyone’s middle class home looking very much like a traditional Hallmark te…

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

GRACE – Heightened Reality from Craig Wright by Oscar E Moore

Praise God.  Blame God.  Bridging the gap between those who believe in God and those who don’t - and the daring of Off-Broadway and the star filled marquees of Broadway a not so new …

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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Loni Ackerman – A Class Act by Oscar E Moore

Loni Ackerman returns to the METROPOLITAN ROOM for an encore engagement of her pitch perfect cabaret act  NEXT TO AB-NORMAL - Sundays at 7 - October 7,14,21,28.   Here is a reposting of m…

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

TEN CHIMNEYS – At home with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne by Oscar E Moore

  “They don’t write them like that anymore,” is a comment that is usually heard after seeing a revival of an old chestnut at The Mint, The Actors Company Theatre or The Pe…

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: old play + new translation = politics as usual at MTC by Oscar E Moore

“Restraint” is a word that is peppered throughout the new translation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz which is MTC’s newest p…

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

RED DOG HOWLS – Extraordinary NYTW production by Oscar E Moore

  Thank you Alexander Dinelaris for writing such a moving, powerful, heart wrenching, heartbreaking and completely heartfelt play.  Thank you to the New York Theatre Workshop for producing…

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Monday, September 24, 2012

IF THERE IS I HAVEN’T FOUND IT YET – Roundabout rain forest by Oscar E Moore

I suppose with all of the revivals being produced on and off Broadway this season we should be grateful for anything original, especially if it includes the American stage debut of Mr. Jake …

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

THE EXONERATED – Death Row Docudrama Off-B’way by Oscar E Moore

Imagine being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Imagine being arrested for a crime that you did not commit.  Imagine being incarcerated for twenty two years on Death Row for said crim…

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Friday, September 14, 2012

CHAPLIN, the musical or a hundred shades of grey by Oscar E Moore

The road to Broadway for the new musical CHAPLIN which originally was titled BEHIND THE LIMELIGHT (New York Musical Theatre Festival 2006 book, music and lyrics Christopher Curtis) and then …

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

MARY BROOME – Edwardian hanky-panky at the Mint by Oscar E Moore

The Mint Theater seems to be an oasis for elders seeking to find their Mecca in the form of good old fashioned plays (at reasonable rates) that the Mint happily and repeatedly supplies.  It…

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

HARRISON, TX: Three plays by Horton Foote by Oscar E Moore

Good story telling never goes out of style as evidenced by the extremely satisfying three course gourmet meal served up by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Horton Foote with his trio of sho…

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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