Thursday, June 21, 2012
There are many stars shining ever so brightly at the York Theatre where their revival of the cult Off-Broadway 1989 musical hit CLOSER THAN EVER by David Shire (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
As missed opportunities go this one is as colossal as Alexandre Dumas’ epic romantic tale of revenge, The Count of Monte Cristo, on which this new musical written by James Behr is b…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:52AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
The Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles autobiographical, satirical and downright old fashioned three act comedy Love Goes to Press may have been written in 1944 but it was light years …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:29AMFriday, June 8, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMFriday, June 1, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:19AMMonday, May 7, 2012
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 &…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMSunday, May 6, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:57AMFriday, May 4, 2012
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.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMThursday, May 3, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:27AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:34AMMonday, April 30, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:40AMSunday, April 29, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:44AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:00AMThursday, April 26, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:56AMMonday, April 23, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:25AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:26AMSaturday, April 14, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMSomething’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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:22AMThursday, April 5, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:47AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:30AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMSaturday, March 31, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:31AMSunday, March 25, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:41AMFriday, March 23, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:42AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:26AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMThursday, March 8, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:47AM 
