Thursday, 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 07:47AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
By the time the double portrait of her parents - Fanny and Gardner Church is finished by their long absent, bohemian looking artistic daughter “Mags” who has returned home to the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Before The Ewings - those wealthy, powerful and greedy Dallas oil and cattle barons; before The Carringtons - that wealthy, powerful and greedy Denver dynasty came The Rutherfords - specific…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AMMonday, February 27, 2012
At the close of Loni Ackerman’s most engaging and entertaining new cabaret act - “Next to Ab-Normal” she sings James Taylor’s “The Secret O’ Life” a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:16AMSaturday, February 18, 2012
WARNING: In Kate Fodor’s insanely comic new play Rx (which deals in equal amounts with love, lunacy and loneliness with some sharp, sarcastic barbs aimed at today’s pharmace…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:19AMThursday, February 16, 2012
“Without love life has no purpose.” Words spoken every night by the late Zina Bethune as Charity Hope Valentine in the musical “Sweet Charity” circa 1968, Memphis T…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:21AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
In her new cabaret show, “Next to Ab-Normal,” ebullient Broadway veteran Loni Ackerman recalls personal stories of her unusual New York upbringing (including her childhood associ…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AMSaturday, February 11, 2012
The first thing we hear is some vintage jazz played just loud enough to annoy. Setting the proper mood for what we see on stage - a ramshackle mess of the extremely tight quarters that the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:39AMFriday, February 10, 2012
Maya Macdonald’s new play LEAVE THE BALCONY OPEN isn’t a play in the traditional sense of the word. It is more of a meditation - a theme with variations - dealing with death…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:44AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
Step right up folks and see this side show circus called GODSPELL starring Jesus (a not very convincing Hunter Parish) walking on water, doing a cartwheel and strutting with straw hat and ca…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
The word for today is “Soporific”: causing or tending to cause sleep/a sleep inducing drug. A most important word, one among many that one time playwright Margaret Edson feat…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:49AMSaturday, January 28, 2012
In a word. Go! PORGY AND BESS, the 1935 iconic and revered four hour folk opera by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward has undergone a “nip and tuck’ procedur…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:25AMSaturday, January 21, 2012
Patience is a virtue. And if you are lucky enough to possess this positive trait you will be rewarded greatly with a trio of outstanding performances when you go to see Athol Fugard…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:17AMSaturday, December 31, 2011
In 1928, an extremely talented twenty four year old Cecil Beaton “one of London’s bright young people” known for their “exaggerated poses and frivolous sensibility…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:06AMMonday, December 19, 2011
There won’t be any comparisons made here to the original production or the movie. Let them rest in peace.
This imaginative production, re-conceived and directed by Michael Mayer wi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:13AMIn this “feel good” original new musical from the skewered mind of Douglas Carter Beane whose brand of humor is an acquired taste and Lewis Flinn who has supplied “High Sch…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:13AMFriday, December 16, 2011
Where’s the rest of the gang? The infamous Barrow gang. Not just Bonnie and Clyde and Blanche and Buck. But Raymond Hamilton and Deacon Jones. That’s just one of the things…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:23AMThursday, December 15, 2011
The Huxtable’s live on. That is, Cliff and Clair Huxtable of the extremely successful 1980’s The Cosby Show. Only in STICK FLY, a fine new family drama/comedy by Lydia R. Dia…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:30AMThursday, December 8, 2011
Neighbourhood Watch is Mr. Ayckbourn’s 75th play. He might have been wise to stop at number 74. He also directed, another suspect decision. Now don’t get me wrong. I do n…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:14AMMonday, December 5, 2011
How incredibly exciting it is to want to race home and write a review of a show that you have just seen, to spread the word at how astounding it is. Such is the case with this reinvented, …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:30AMThe Peccadillo Theater Company has to be applauded for attempting to revive this dated albeit classic 1939 The Man Who Came to Dinner and employing twenty three actors in the process which d…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:23AMMonday, November 28, 2011
This titillating new play by Thomas Higgins centers around a weekend camping trip in the woods with a couple of unlikely best friend Boy Scouts, a couple of yin and yang dads and one manly, …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:46AMSunday, November 27, 2011
There are thousands of Chinese characters used for writing. They are complicated. And that is not the only thing complicated about the Chinese. In David Henry Hwang latest culture clas…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:44AMFriday, November 25, 2011
A remarkable and unusual new musical with beautiful words and music by Michael John LaChiusa, QUEEN OF THE MIST, will be running for only two more weeks at The Gym at Judson 243 Thompson Str…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:35AMThursday, November 24, 2011
Noel Coward’s sparring partners Amanda (the sleek, chic and ferocious Kim Cattrall) and Elyot (the debonair, callow, feisty and oh so charming Paul Gross) can’t get enough of eac…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:24AMMonday, November 21, 2011
Like most seminars there are peaks and valleys, highlights and low spots, moments of boredom, moments of ecstasy and moments that are difficult to hear as exemplified in the new play SEMINAR…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:33AMFriday, November 18, 2011
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Get a job …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:43AMFriday, November 11, 2011
“Bursting with energy and eagerness” “Conveys a note of honest emotion underneath the clowning” wrote Howard Taubman, New York Times theatre critic on March 27th 19…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:05PMMonday, November 7, 2011
The cover of the PLAYBILL for Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz isn’t the only thing that has been changed for this production which has now transferred to the Booth Theatre on Br…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:35PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
This is the very sad saga of the horrible Lyons family presented in a very funny play by Nicky Silver which is now running at The Vineyard Theatre starring the ever brilliant Linda Lavin as …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 03:28PMMonday, October 31, 2011
With trademark cigar close at hand and speaking directly to God with his Harry Potter-like eyeglasses, Joel Rooks as George Burns - who made God a household name in a series of high gross…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:43AM 
