Wednesday, January 17, 2018
There’s some good news and some rather dreary news to report about this Lithgow family “show and tell” Roundabout production that has taken roughly ten years to get to the Ameri…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:29AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
For those of you who can’t enough of Handel sung beautifully by the renowned countertenor Iestyn Davies as the “singing” Farinelli (a renowned 18th century castrato) hie thee over to t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:18AMSaturday, December 16, 2017
Twenty minutes into this 80 minute puzzling and slight but bloated idea penned by Steve Martin, there I sat – fourth row on the aisle – at the Booth Theatre – wonder…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:04PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Who knew? Who knew that a simple sponge living in a pineapple at the bottom of the sea in a town called Bikini Bottom could erupt on Broadway at the Palace Theatre as an ingenious, put-a-s…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:36AMMonday, December 11, 2017
You might be interested in the fact that ultra-cool socialite Chloe (Uma Thurman) one half of a Washington D.C. power couple – the other half being her successful well connected tax attorn…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMThursday, December 7, 2017
A perfect cast. A perfect score. A perfect story of forbidden love on a hurricane ravaged island in the French Antilles. There are no commercials and no intermission at Circle in the S…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Remember the ad campaign for real Levy’s Jewish Rye Bread? “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s Real Jewish Rye.” Well you don’t have to be Latino to love John L…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:33AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
TULIS McCALL ALL IN GOOD TIME Tulis McCall is unbelievable and unabashedly honest and funny to a fault. If you are feeling the onset of old age (and who isn’t) you will definitely ge…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:24PMSunday, November 12, 2017
You will not soon forget THE BAND’S VISIT. Nor should you. In a small Israeli town (circa 1996) in the desert – its people are waiting for something different – anything – to hap…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:54AMSunday, November 5, 2017
In this uneven and unbalanced revisal of the 1988 multiple award winning production of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang you may find yourself as confused as its leading character Rene Galli…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:24AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
It’s virtually impossible to fill those bunny rabbit slippers worn so majestically and confidently by Harvey Fierstein in his original production of TORCH SONG TRILOGY some 35 years ago wh…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:06AMSunday, October 29, 2017
At the Wednesday evening performance that I attended (10/25/17) James Morgan (Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company) in his opening remarks in his own inimitable style announced that…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
This Roundabout revival of J. B. Priestley’s three act drama is just adequate. And seems longer than it actually is. There are some high points and an equal amount of low as d…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:04AMThursday, September 28, 2017
This newest play by Amy Herzog and directed by Anne Kauffman features a cast of five women spearheaded by Carrie Coon as Mary Jane. You wouldn’t want to be in her shoes. She is strong, c…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:48AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Welcome to the dystopian world of Anthony Burgess as seen through the eyes of Alexandra Spencer-Jones set in England – Today. It might be better set in 1984. This ultra-violent, unpleasa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Sarah Ruhl’s mom Kathleen grew up playing Peter Pan in Iowa. As in why oh why oh why-o? Excuse me that’s Ohio. In any event she played Peter in Community Theater in Iowa. Now …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:24AMWednesday, August 30, 2017
You know, he’s the guy with the glasses perched atop his mostly bald pate. Prince. Hal Prince. Producer. Director. Visionary. Twenty one count ‘em twenty one Tony Awards – …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Jerry Lewis passed away last week. If you are of a certain age, that is a notable item for throughout his long and public life he was a man of consequence. He was indeed worthy of a “f…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:04PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Chances are there are not too many people who have heard of the American artist John Banvard who found his fifteen minutes of international fame painting a three mile long “moving” panor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:05PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Beth David and Esteban Bravo have created an instant masterpiece. It is magical and moving with a beautiful score. Without a single word of dialogue it conveys what one’s heart tru…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:05PMMonday, July 24, 2017
Are we at The Public Theater or La Mama or some Greek amphitheater to witness the revenge tragedy of Hamlet starring Oscar Isaac (scampering around barefoot in his black undies and te…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Playwright Meghan Kennedy remembers Mama in her scattered memory kitchen sink drama NAPOLI, BROOKLYN – a series of short all-around-the-mulberry-bush scenes now playing off-Broadway at the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PMThursday, July 6, 2017
When does two plus two not equal four? When you are being subjected to torture till submission. That is the horrific answer that George Orwell proposed with his ground breaking 1949 nove…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:12AMSaturday, June 24, 2017
Condensing Horton Foote’s 1954 three act play (which starred Kim Stanley) into a one hour forty five minute intermission-less one act is akin to Cinderella’s step sisters trying t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AMSaturday, June 3, 2017
A provincial Russian town. 1836. Corruption is rampant. Cover-ups follow. Bribes disguised as loans (the new reimbursement program) flow freely. From the Mayor to the Judge to the …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:54AMMonday, May 8, 2017
I had a dream. A wonderful dream…during the second act of the quite slow going WAR PAINT. Christine Ebersole had morphed from Elizabeth Arden into Mame and Patti LuPone from Hel…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:24PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
OSLO an excellent production of an excellent play has moved upstairs from the smaller Mitzi E. Newhouse to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center – original cast intact. Through J…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:42AMFriday, May 5, 2017
“Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew – Cover it with choc’late and a miracle or two?” Christian Borle as Willy Wonka can! ‘Cause he mixes it with love and wacky hu…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AMThursday, May 4, 2017
And divine she is. Bette Midler. The voice is a bit rusty. But she still retains the spunk that made her famous. The comic timing. The tilt of the head. The wink to the audience.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:18PMThere are usually two sides to every story. In Lucas Hnath’s brittle and fascinating new play A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2 based on what happened to Nora after she infamously left her husband…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
War is hell and so is trying to make it on Broadway with a new musical. It’s not easy. In this well-intentioned but predictable BANDSTAND that begins with the sound of bombs exploding,…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PM 
