Friday, January 31, 2020
The more I think of this newest offering by playwright Bess Wohl at 2nd Stage – The Helen Hayes Theater – the less I like it. The underlying themes are easy enough to diges…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMFriday, January 24, 2020
Imagine Romeo (a spectacular Nikita Burshteyn) if you will (as in William Shakespeare) finding himself in 1960’s Brooklyn chasing a girl he believes to be his beloved Juliet. Actu…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
 O ye of little patience. Ye who do not appreciate the written words of Rona Munro who has adapted Elizabeth Strout’s 2016 bestseller My Name is Lucy Barton featuring two extr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:06AMTuesday, December 24, 2019
Were they just lazy or simply in a rush to adapt John Carney’s 2016 motion picture “Sing Street†into a stage musical that has just floated into the New York Theatre Works…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMSunday, December 15, 2019
You think you’ve got problems? Meet the Healys in what is billed as “our new musical†– a hybrid of songs written by Alanis Morissette from her skyrocketing 199…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Matthew Lopez certainly has a lot to say. Too much in fact. Almost seven hours’ worth of words. In two parts. With 28 characters portrayed by 15 onstage performers in …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:42AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
If you are dreaming of a white Christmas but fear the cold blustery wind or hate to shovel snow, head on over to the Lyceum Theatre where “The Olde Vic production†of a very new …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:33PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
This fearless, extraordinarily talented firecracker named Adrienne Warren ignites this long-winded jukebox journey of the still very much alive Tina Turner (executive producer) who graced th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:33AMFriday, November 1, 2019
I survived the matinee performance on October 30th, 2019. Barely. Resulting in what was called in the 60’s – an Excedrin Headache Number so and so. It is deafening …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:24AMSaturday, October 26, 2019
Director Trip Cullman has taken it upon himself to turn Tennessee Williams slight 1950 romantic-comedy into a Sicilian commedia dell’arte, Fellini inspired burlesque show. Thicken…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
We sometimes, more often than we would like, wonder the why and how certain shows make it to Broadway. Transferring a small intimate production into a much too large commercial space mor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:18PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
The flavor of the moment on Broadway appears to be controversial playwright Jeremy O. Harris who along with director Robert O’Hara have been anointed masters of “pushing the env…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMMonday, October 14, 2019
 Just the facts, Ma’am. Just the facts. A misquoted phrase from the 1950’s TV show Dragnet that swept the nation, is unfortunately what playwright Robert Schenkkan …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMSaturday, October 12, 2019
Dick Wheeler’s life is anything but a pretty picture. He seems to have been born with low self- esteem. He is in the middle of a prolonged divorce, bickering over child suppor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:48PMMonday, September 30, 2019
 Cue: Ominous melancholy music. Cue: Soft light through kitchen window after last night’s storm – outside of Paris. Cue: Andre standing alone at the win…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:48AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Pinter can be puzzling. Not so here, in this exceptional revival expertly directed by Mr. Jamie Lloyd. Imported from across the pond with its original stars intact. This is no sn…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:03AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Based on the 2001 controversial Baz Luhrmann music video styled movie MOULIN ROUGE! a new creative team has brought back its Bohemians of Montmartre circa 1899 with a vengeance – and …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:36PMFriday, June 28, 2019
In 1995 a demo cassette recording was produced by Al Lowman for the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. STONEWALL a new musical was composed by Robin Webb with book and lyrics by Mi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:24AMSaturday, June 1, 2019
Some believe in love (or is it lust?) at first sight and others do not. So, why not take a chance on love? One never knows. For skeptical Frankie (Audra McDonald) a middle-aged a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:03AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
A momentous moment in the life of Hillary (Laurie Metcalf) – January 8, 2008. New Hampshire Democratic Primary. Also for Clinton (John Lithgow) and Mark (Zak Orth), campaign m…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:18AMMonday, May 6, 2019
Titus who? General Titus Andronicus was a fictional character in Shakespeare’s first and only fictional revenge tragedy that takes place during the fall of the Roman Empire. H…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Breaking News: Hot on the heels of receiving 11 Tony Award Nominations TOOTSIES’ Dorothy Michaels aka Michael Dorsey is basking in the glow of her newly found stardom, quickly bec…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:24AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Director Jack O’Brien immediately grabs our attention with a fierce thunderstorm erupting at the American Airlines Theatre as a projection of a fighter aircraft going down, against wh…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMSunday, April 28, 2019
The dead have arrived at the Winter Garden Theatre in this almost dead on arrival so-called musical comedy called BEETLEJUICE based on the 1988 cult favorite movie of the same title by Tim B…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:43AMSaturday, April 27, 2019
Fleet Street, London. Center for print journalism. 1969. A 38 year old, brash newspaper mogul, already wealthy Australian, Rupert Murdoch (Bertie Carvel) takes over a struggling …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:12AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
 The genius behind this totally exciting, engrossing, entertaining and country western infused revival of OKLAHOMA! is director Daniel Fish. Of course he was working with the materia…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:17AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Love may pierce your heart at the most unexpected times with a most unexpected partner. Some may have love taken away and some may never experience it at all. Such is the case in Lan…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:26AMMonday, April 22, 2019
The Ides of March has come and gone. Now is the springtime of our discontent. And… ‘tis the season to be different: new plays, old revivals, star vehicles, three hour…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:50AMSunday, April 21, 2019
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something bluesy.  This about sums up the sometimes exciting, sometimes repetitive, sometimes off the track lavish sweaty and sultry …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:12AMMonday, April 1, 2019
How about ditching our old Constitution for a new one? A Constitution that was created by the all too powerful, all too privileged and all too white men who owned property – some …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AM 
