Tuesday, March 12, 2013
In this splendid revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1980 Pulitzer award winning play TALLEY’S FOLLY the language of love reigns supreme. It’s July 4th 1944.
As beautifully direc…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:05AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Texas is noteworthy for two things - the Alamo and Ann Richards who became the 45th Governor of the Lone Star State quite by accident, a twist of fate, her tenacity and hard work ethic insti…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:28AMMonday, March 4, 2013
At the couldn’t-come-fast-enough conclusion of Amy Herzog’s newest foray into drama BELLEVILLE being presented by The New York Theatre Workshop, Amina (Pascale Armand) the French…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:28AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Why? Why resurrect the most notorious flop in Broadway history? In 1983 MOOSE MURDERS opened and closed in a heartbeat - murdered by the critics. This production presented by The Beaut…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:50AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Hamish Linklater is one of our most promising A-list young actors. He is clever, concise and quirky. He did a brilliant job in David Ives’s “The School for Lies” at …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:50AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
This most recent revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams, another Pulitzer Prize winning drama from the 1950’s (PICNIC being another) starring Scarlett Johansson who won…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:48AMMonday, January 21, 2013
It’s difficult to imagine that the classic William Inge 1953 play PICNIC was awarded a Pulitzer Prize after seeing this unacceptable, clumsy and clunky production at the American Airli…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:30AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Juliana Smithton (an extraordinary Laurie Metcalf) - caustic, condescending, mocking mother of a distant runaway daughter, successful neurologist and scientific researcher who is in the thro…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Hi Oscar,
I hope this finds you doing great and enjoying the Holidays. I wanted to get you my new single release. I know it’s late in the season to release a Holiday song, but I never …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:04AMSunday, December 16, 2012
Lincoln Center Theater has delivered a one-two punch in its gritty, powerful and sterling 75th anniversary revival of GOLDEN BOY by Clifford Odets now playing at the Belasco Theatre where it…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:43AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
STUDIO 54 has its 54 Below and now 59E59 has 59 Above where the very talented Penny Fuller is appearing in this one act, hard to remember title, sixty minute, almost one woman chamber-cum-ca…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:03AMMonday, December 10, 2012
There has been a lot of pre-opening discussion about the latest revival of David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, his 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning drama starring Al Pacino in the Willy L…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:25AMSaturday, December 8, 2012
On no account would I recommend DEAD ACCOUNTS, the new project, notice I did not write play, by Theresa Rebeck that is a sometimes amusing, sometimes boring and a totally unfulfilling evenin…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:47AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Whodunit? Rupert Holmes, that’s who! Responsible for Book, Music and Lyrics for this festive and frolicking, stylish and impeccably cast Roundabout revival of his award winning THE…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:44AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Santa has delivered a mixed bag of goodies just in time for the holidays. A CHRISTMAS STORY, the musical - based on the book “In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash” by Jean She…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:47AMSaturday, November 24, 2012
Aimee Semple McPherson - “Sister Aimee” - evangelist extraordinaire and media celebrity. And now the subject of a surprisingly entertaining new musical by Kathie Lee Gifford - …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:38AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
My funny bone seems to have become rusty, not finding very funny nor satisfying the new Christopher Durang dysfunctional family comedy VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE which is playing in…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:44AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director of PREMIERES was on a mission to create a new musical experience where she introduced and commissioned writers and composers who had not worked together …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:56AMSunday, November 18, 2012
With today’s depressing headlines - High Unemployment, Homelessness, Hurricanes and War - it’s a gosh darn shame that tickets to the oh so optimistic, tuneful and mostly delightf…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:28AMFriday, November 16, 2012
A marriage lasting twenty seven years - not without problems. Set against the background of The Lone Star State - TEXAS. He, Jordan “Bick” Benedict (Brian D’Arcy James)…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMSaturday, November 10, 2012
Can a shy, sheltered and awkward yet overly devoted daughter of a famous New York City doctor living luxuriously on Washington Square who already has enough money to live on from her mother&…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AMSunday, October 28, 2012
Fifty years ago Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” took New York by storm establishing him as one of the most original and daring playwrights of his day…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMSunday, October 21, 2012
This Roundabout Theatre Company revival - with an odd contemporary translation full of anachronistic words and rhyming phrases by Ranjit Bolt (after Edmond Rostand) might be better entitled …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:19AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
It’s unclear where exactly FALLING, a new 75 minute play by Deanna Jent, takes place. It could be in anyone’s middle class home looking very much like a traditional Hallmark te…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:38AMSunday, October 14, 2012
Praise God. Blame God. Bridging the gap between those who believe in God and those who don’t - and the daring of Off-Broadway and the star filled marquees of Broadway a not so new …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:26AMSaturday, October 6, 2012
Loni Ackerman returns to the METROPOLITAN ROOM for an encore engagement of her pitch perfect cabaret act NEXT TO AB-NORMAL - Sundays at 7 - October 7,14,21,28.
Here is a reposting of m…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:37AMThursday, October 4, 2012
“They don’t write them like that anymore,” is a comment that is usually heard after seeing a revival of an old chestnut at The Mint, The Actors Company Theatre or The Pe…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:59AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
“Restraint” is a word that is peppered throughout the new translation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz which is MTC’s newest p…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Thank you Alexander Dinelaris for writing such a moving, powerful, heart wrenching, heartbreaking and completely heartfelt play. Thank you to the New York Theatre Workshop for producing…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:46AMMonday, September 24, 2012
I suppose with all of the revivals being produced on and off Broadway this season we should be grateful for anything original, especially if it includes the American stage debut of Mr. Jake …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:49AMThursday, September 20, 2012
Imagine being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Imagine being arrested for a crime that you did not commit. Imagine being incarcerated for twenty two years on Death Row for said crim…
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