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Friday, June 8, 2012

FOOD and FADWA – A middle-eastern smorgasbord of sorts at NYTW by Oscar E Moore

  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…

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

POTTED POTTER: Yes, that Potter…Harry off B’way by Oscar E Moore

Two funny chaps from London - Daniel Clarkson (the tall one) and Jefferson Turner (the other) have taken on the monumental challenge of presenting all seven Harry Potter novels in a seventy …

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Friday, June 1, 2012

THE COMMON PURSUIT – Higher Learning at Cambridge circa 1960 by Oscar E Moore

How best to encourage you to see The Roundabout Theatre Company’s imperfect but likable production of Simon Gray’s 1984 play THE COMMON PURSUIT?  “Let me count the ways…

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Peter and the Starcatcher comes to Broadway by Oscar E Moore

I heeded my own advice from my original review and saw Peter for the second time last evening, Friday May 4th, after being transferred from the Off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop where &…

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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Leap of Faith starring Raul Esparza – Miracles, magic and money by Oscar E Moore

Get ready for your close up.  It’s show time!  At the revival meeting that is being held at the St. James Theatre called “Leap of Faith” an on stage security guy with han…

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Friday, May 4, 2012

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT – O’Hara, Broderick & the Gershwins strike up the band by Oscar E Moore

It takes a village, sometimes an entire universe, to put all the pieces of that puzzle called a Broadway musical together to come up with a completely satisfying and entertaining production.…

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER – a fleetingly funny French sex farce by Oscar E Moore

  There are about three really funny things in DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER adapted by Robin Hawdon from the original French play by Marc Camoletti. best known for his international hit …

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

THE LYONS on Broadway – Going for the jugular by Oscar E Moore

The wonderful news is that THE LYONS that has recently transferred from The Vineyard Theatre with its original cast in tact is funnier and more emotionally involving than ever.  Linda Lavin…

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

PRATFALLS – Off-Off Broadway – a gem of a play by Oscar E Moore

Good things really do come in very small packages as evidenced by the delightful new gem of a four character (each very interesting), two act comedy called PRATFALLS, written by Holly Webber…

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Monday, April 30, 2012

GHOST – the musical on Broadway is a paranormal phenomenon by Oscar E Moore

Love conquers all.  A mugging.  A murder.  A double crossing buddy.  A phony psychic.  A potter’s wheel.  And even death.  Loves lives on in the amazing, top notch, highly enter…

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

THE COLUMNIST – starring John Lithgow at MTC by Oscar E Moore

Hardly making any waves at all is this new play by David Auburn, THE COLUMNIST produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre which deals with a homosexual tryst (w…

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams Revival in living color by Oscar E Moore

They’ve taken the name Kowalski out of STREETCAR but the story remains the same for Belle Reve, the lost ancestral plantation co-owed by the manipulative, beyond her prime and close to…

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Tribes – Directed by David Cromer Off B’way – Dealing with deafness. by Oscar E Moore

David Cromer is an extraordinarily astute director (Our Town, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and When the Rain Stops Falling) who elicits all of the nuances of a script and encourages his actors to…

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

One Man, Two Guvnors – a tour de farce, from soup to nuts by Oscar E Moore

This zany British import comes our way via 1960’s Brighton, England via Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters’ 1740’s Venice. This new, freely adapted comedy by …

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The City Club – Original new Blues & Jazz Musical Off-B’way by Oscar E Moore

There’s a lot to admire in this extremely well produced new “Blues and Jazz musical” at the Minetta Lane Theatre - THE CITY CLUB - that employs some of the best singers in …

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Clybourne Park on Broadway – Racism, real estate and A Raisin in the Sun by Oscar E Moore

The mostly white and young audience gave a rousing, standing ovation at the end of CLYBOURNE PARK at the Walter Kerr Theatre where it has recently opened after its original incarnation at Pl…

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

4000 miles – to Grandmother’s house we go or lost in the West Village at Lincoln Center by Oscar E Moore

The Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center is now home to Vera Joseph (Mary Louise Wilson) and her grandson Leo (Gabriel Ebert).  She’s 91.  He’s 21. A modern day, carefre…

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN – a winner by a landslide by Oscar E Moore

1925 was an auspicious year.  Especially the month of October when Gore Vidal author of the 1960 scathingly sharp satire and up-to-the-minute mud slinging indictment of the political nomina…

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EVITA – semi-revived on Broadway by Oscar E Moore

Something’s amiss in Argentina.  If only Forbidden Broadway - the highly successful musical revue that satirized the Great White Way’s hits and misses - was still running they w…

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

NEWSIES – The legacy of Disney marches on by Oscar E Moore

Can Disney out Disney Disney?  That’s the question here in this newest musical on the Broadway block - NEWSIES - based on the 1992 cult film of the same name with music by Alan Menken…

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Now. Here. This. At the Vineyard: Yes. And. No. by Oscar E Moore

Looking for love and acceptance among the turtles and reptiles, birds and bees and dinosaurs at The Museum of Natural History our four energetic, sharp and funny infused heroes share their w…

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

End of the Rainbow – Judy Garland Live at the Belasco by Oscar E Moore

      A tornado has hit the Belasco Theatre and her name is Tracie Bennett.  She is portraying Judy Garland as we’ve never seen her before.  Popping pills.  Getting drunk.  Cur…

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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Je-sus Christ Su-per-star – Webber/Rice rock opera resurrected –OMG! by Oscar E Moore

Jesus never had it so bad.  First was the mediocre revival of GODSPELL and now this - the resurrection of the very famous, extremely profitable, completely sung through 1971 rock opera by A…

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

ONCE – A romantic musical odyssey transfers from Off-Bway by Oscar E Moore

Upon entering the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre where the rapturous and romantic new musical ONCE has opened after transferring from its Off Broadway origins - The New York Theatre Workshop - yo…

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Friday, March 23, 2012

LOST IN YONKERS – finds itself a wondrous new production Off-B’way at TACT by Oscar E Moore

Waiting around for twenty years for just the right New York revival of his 1991 Pulitzer Prize and multi Tony Award winning play LOST IN YONKERS, Neil Simon can now bask in the glow of this …

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Death of a Salesman – Ghostlike Revival with Philip Seymour Hoffman by Oscar E Moore

The past is evoked not just by the memories of Willy Loman’s lost opportunities but by the astute taste of director Mike Nichols who very wisely and shrewdly has used Jo Mielziner̵…

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

CARRIE, the musical – Revised telekinetic meltdown by Oscar E Moore

The curse of CARRIE continues.  Based on the Stephen King novel and revised after becoming one of Broadway’s biggest flops in 1988 (16 previews - 5 performances) by the same persisten…

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

An Iliad – Starring Denis O’Hare or Stephen Spinella by Oscar E Moore

Who would want to see a one man version of The Iliad?  As it turns out everyone should.  The Gods of Olympus have smiled down and wholeheartedly blessed this heroic production - “An …

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Painting Churches by Tina Howe: Off B’way revival by Oscar E Moore

By the time the double portrait of her parents - Fanny and Gardner Church is finished by their long absent, bohemian looking artistic daughter “Mags” who has returned home to the…

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Rutherford & Son – Vintage Soap Opera at the Mint Theater Company by Oscar E Moore

Before The Ewings - those wealthy, powerful and greedy Dallas oil and cattle barons; before The Carringtons - that wealthy, powerful and greedy Denver dynasty came The Rutherfords - specific…

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Loni Ackerman – Next to Ab-Normal – Pitch Perfect Cabaret by Oscar E Moore

At the close of Loni Ackerman’s most engaging and entertaining new cabaret act - “Next to Ab-Normal” she sings James Taylor’s “The Secret O’ Life” a…

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Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
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