Tuesday, August 28, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:22AMFriday, August 24, 2012
Over at the Cherry Lane Theatre is one of the most bizarre, unsettling and purely theatrical offerings of this years FringeNYC Festival. It is called THE DICK AND THE ROSE but it might hav…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:46AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Why wasn’t I standing and cheering enthusiastically at the end of NIGHTFALL ON MIRANGA ISLAND at The Players Theatre as I did when I saw the original version in Oct. 2011 at The Magnet…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:40AMMonday, August 20, 2012
I’m still laughing. I’m still amazed at the blast of unabashed young talent that makes the world premiere of PANORAMANIA so refreshing. So exciting. So musical. So mer…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:35AMSunday, August 19, 2012
What better way to introduce children to the ballet than to take them to see ORPHAN TRAIN which is being performed as part of FringeNYC - a production of The Present Company and The Covenant…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:49AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Various ways of doing oneself in - a bullet to the head (Richard, an engineer who has made a big mistake - Seth Blum), an overdose of pills (Samantha, a young girl who couldn’t cope w…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:01AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
There has been a motorcycle accident involving other cars on I-95. Only we do not know this immediately. James (Josh Bywater) and Mildred (Kerry Fitzgibbons) are in surgery as this su…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Actors who are not yet members of the “Union - AEA” are considered non-equity. And these actors will do just about anything to get into the union - play cows, go out of town…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:05AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
The good news is that this exhilarating and highly entertaining competitive cheerleading new musical BRING IT ON, in a limited run at the St. James Theatre, has been extended through Jan. 20…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:31AMFriday, August 10, 2012
What a magnificent revival this is. It seems as though INTO THE WOODS, the 1987 award winning musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, was expressly written to be performed in the ope…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Chances are that this new “slap-stick comedy” with its attention getting but misleading title BULLET FOR ADOLF wouldn’t be opening at the New World Stages had it not be…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:33AMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Good guy or bad guy? That’s the question that Brandon Wood attempts to answer lock, stock and barrel in this intriguing and promising soft rock meets Nashville sounding musical TOMBS…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:20AMFriday, August 3, 2012
It’s a smoker - the very last one vs. the non-smokers in this absurd farce of a musical - THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERCIA - which is the brain storm of Bill Russell (Book and lyrics) with a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:58AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Based on Mark Twain’s story of switched identities and performed in French with simultaneous English translations of dialogue and songs projected on a Samsung monitor, Le Prince et Le …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:33AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Everyone in this ill conceived rock musical, STAND TALL, is being bullied. Goliath (Gerard Canonico) by his father Cassius - a garage mechanic - abuses his wife and angry son. The shephe…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:27AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Down we go, once again, into that infamous rabbit hole that will lead Alice to Wonderland. Only this time Alice (Ming Peiffer) is an apprehensive young girl who has problems with he…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:28AMMonday, July 23, 2012
In the dark as the actors enter the performance space at Joyce Soho - 155 Mercer Street - you will hear the clicking and clacking of tap shoes. As the lights go up and the incredibly wonde…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:40AMSunday, July 22, 2012
The special effects by Tony Doublin, John Naulin, John Buechler, Tom Devlin & Greg McDougall are the highlight in this uneven, gore filled, newish musical (It’s been running in LA …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:45AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Joey, Lincoln Center Theater’s War Horse has met his match at the Ice Factory Festival production of MISS LILLY GETS BONED with Harold - an amazing African elephant who has been extrem…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:55AMThursday, July 19, 2012
There are “fractured fairy tales” and then there is SPOOLIE GIRL - a new split personality musical by Robert W. Atwood (book) and Rosemary Loar (co-book, music, lyrics and vocal …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Oh, the glorious sound of words. The words of James Joyce and his muse/lover and eventual wife as interpreted by the multi talented Jonathan Brielle in his new musical HIMSELF and NORA. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:07AMMonday, July 16, 2012
The management of the 45th Street Theatre should be ashamed for not having repaired their air conditioner where FLAMBE DREAMS is being performed under sweltering conditions. The heat in th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Where else will you find a love song entitled “Plumbing” sung in a harem in Turkey, accents (French, American, Italian, Greek, German, Russian, British and Turkish) running rampa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:27AMThursday, July 12, 2012
The ninth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival is off to a shaky start. He’s Not Himself, after eleven drafts, is just not ready. Chosen to be part of The Festival’…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:51AMThursday, June 28, 2012
All those feisty female dinosaurs over at the SOHO Playhouse on Vandam Street are working their tails off as well as that other body part that is specifically male (something about frog DNA)…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:49AMMonday, June 25, 2012
Are you a puzzle fanatic? Do you like a good psychological mystery play? Will five excellent actors start those grey cells in your brain working overtime? Then 7th Monarch written by J…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:17AMFriday, June 22, 2012
All hail Harvey and what he stands for. All hail all 6 foot 3 and a half inches of his white fuzzy frame that is invisible to the naked eye but can be seen by those who believe. All h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AMThursday, June 21, 2012
There are many stars shining ever so brightly at the York Theatre where their revival of the cult Off-Broadway 1989 musical hit CLOSER THAN EVER by David Shire (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
As missed opportunities go this one is as colossal as Alexandre Dumas’ epic romantic tale of revenge, The Count of Monte Cristo, on which this new musical written by James Behr is b…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:52AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
The Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles autobiographical, satirical and downright old fashioned three act comedy Love Goes to Press may have been written in 1944 but it was light years …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:29AMFriday, June 8, 2012
The New York Theatre Workshop’s stage has been transformed into a Palestinian home complete with working kitchen where Fadwa Faranesh (a remarkable Lameece Issaq) holds court prepar…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AM 
