Monday, August 24, 2015
The question isn’t whodunit? But why did they do it? I am still bewildered by this dreadful play starring Everett Quinton who portrays a wealthy hot to trot woman of a certain age, Idris…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:08AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Perhaps it is the heat. Perhaps it is the fact that there are over 185 shows participating in the 19th New York Fringe Festival to choose from that accounted for such a small turnout at Th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:51PMTuesday, July 28, 2015
7 rectangular tables. 7 plastic chairs. Some potted plants. 7 microphones and a large acoustically challenged space (THEATRE 79) normally home to the New York Theatre Workshop greet yo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:13AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
This ambitious and epic original musical will be remembered for three things: the Act I faux underwater finale where anti-hero John Newton (Josh Young) is saved by his slave/friend/confida…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:12AMSunday, July 12, 2015
I was there. Thursday July 9th, the night after the “snatching of the cellphone scandal” when Patti LuPone strode on stage before the start of the ill-fated SHOWS FOR DAYS enunciating …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:13AMSunday, June 28, 2015
About the only redeeming feature of the lonely, annoying, whining and very out gay-boy/man Jordan Berman (Gideon Glick) in SIGNIFICANT OTHER is his Grandmother Helene Berman (a twinkling Bar…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:51AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
I never imagined myself having to critique God but here I am reviewing the Almighty in this ninety minute one act stand-up comedy routine starring the droll and personable Jim Parsons who de…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:32PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Robert Creighton, the star of CAGNEY - an ambitious, superficial biographical musical of the legendary stage and screen star James Cagney - has a fine tenor voice, nimble feet and at times a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:45AMSunday, May 10, 2015
Under the tutelage of the usually perfect Bartlett Sher this revival is a really big production with one really big problem. There is a big orchestra (29). A big cast (51) on a big stage…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AMSunday, May 3, 2015
Oh to be an usher at the St. James Theatre. Oh to be able to relish over and over again the “song and dance, romance and happy ending” of SOMETHING ROTTEN! Not to mention the hilarit…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:16AMSaturday, May 2, 2015
Claire Zachanassian’s (Chita Rivera) entrance is eagerly awaited by both the downtrodden townspeople of Brachen Switzerland – thinking she will save them - and New York audiences anxious…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:12AMMonday, April 27, 2015
Virginia Beach, Virginia is a long way from Siberia. One wonders why Kelli Barrett a girl from said location and as American as apple pie was cast in the pivotal role of Lara – the love …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:11AMSaturday, April 25, 2015
This lackluster and ill-conceived production directed by Kathleen Marshall will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Based on the 1985 play “Peccadillo” by Garson Kanin and adapted…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:49AMFriday, April 24, 2015
“Never act with children or animals,” this quote is attributed to W. C. Fields who was rumored to have a strong dislike for children - unless you are Matthew Morrison (playwright J. M. B…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:37AMMonday, April 20, 2015
David Hyde Pierce knows from funny. He has a great track record. And in his first ever directorial stint on Broadway he brings out every ounce of funny from his expertly assembled cast.�…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMSaturday, April 18, 2015
The Greek goddess of dance and song – Terpsichore - is smiling her Greek goddess head off as is anyone else who gets to see this spectacular new Gershwin musical inspired – and I do mean…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:31AMThursday, April 16, 2015
Forget the novella by Colette. She must be reeling in her grave. Forget Audrey Hepburn. Hard to do. But necessary. Forget the Oscar winning movie starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourd…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Bring a pillow. Not that you will need it to rest your head due to boredom – although boredom does have its moments in this Royal Shakespeare Company production based on the popular nove…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:09AMSaturday, April 11, 2015
What are we to make of this play? A wordy play that deals with class differences, pasta with a Bolognese sauce (cooked on stage) and a couple of people (one much older than other) who at o…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:28AMSunday, March 22, 2015
There are some second tier musicals from the past that have been crying out to be revived when all the stars are aligned. And by stars I mean people stars, not celestial stars. In this c…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:31AMMonday, March 16, 2015
But will it play in Peoria? HAMILTON is sold out through May 3rd in an intimate space at The Public Theatre and is moving to Broadway’s much larger Richard Rodgers Theatre in July after …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:43AMFriday, March 13, 2015
She isn’t cheap. She’s thrifty. She does her homework. She is confident, charming, composed, and at rare times impatient. She allows her Prime Ministers (twelve in all - eight se…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:21AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Did you hear the one about the two Drexel brothers (Norman – Larry David and Arthur – Ben Shenkman) arguing in the hospital over who is going to honor dad’s final wish to take care of …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:40AMFriday, January 23, 2015
From the opening notes of the overture of the wonderful score by Jason Robert Brown played by the large on-stage orchestra with a Big Band Sound reminding us of Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMSunday, January 18, 2015
Two major stars – Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson – make for a minor CONSTELLATIONS. This fresh opus by Nick Payne – who last brought us the annoying IF THERE IS I HAVEN’T FOUND IT…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:32AMSunday, December 14, 2014
Standing straight up in his Victorian Hospital skivvies the handsome and buff Bradley Cooper, sharing the stage with an enlarged photo of the actual Joseph Merrick and Dr. Frederick Treves (…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMSunday, December 7, 2014
Don’t think about it. Just laugh. Abundantly. Terrance McNally (a sort of hit or miss kind of playwright) with patience and persistence, with love, valor and compassion and a wicked …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:04AMSunday, November 23, 2014
What can Hugh Jackman ever do to impress us more than he already has? I wondered as I arrived at Circle in the Square. Eighty five minutes later my question had been answered. Hugh Jackm…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMSaturday, November 22, 2014
This new production of the 1997 cult musical SIDE SHOW is more than a revival. It is more than a make-over. It has had radical surgery – not altogether a good thing. The original o…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:50AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Another Stoppard revival. Another complicated word fest of ideas that is a mere shadow of the original production that ran at the Plymouth from January 84 through May 85 with an all-star c…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:21AMFriday, October 31, 2014
“It’s not easy being green,” according to Kermit the Frog. In Ayad Akhtar’s compelling, pertinent yet somewhat contrived drama DISGRACED, corporate lawyer “mergers and acquisitio…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AM 
