Monday, 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 08:43AMHow brave and how wonderfully moving this production of LA STRADA is. Based on the 1954 Academy Award winning film by Federico Fellini and presented by La Strada Company, under the artisti…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:35AMSunday, October 30, 2011
If you liked the show you are going to love the recording of ELF being released November 1st, just in time for the gift giving/receiving holiday season.
The CD, released by SH-K-BOOM/GHOSTLI…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:09AMSaturday, October 29, 2011
Your enjoyment of RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by Ethan Coen “Talking Cure” - Elaine May “George is Dead” and Woody Allen “Honeymoon Motel”…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:41AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Joseph Douaihy (a remarkable Santino Fontana) and his brother Charles (an excellent Chris Perfetti) are gay, Lebanese, and distantly related to Kahlil Gibran author of THE PROPHET where the …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:29AMQuaint. That’s the word that comes to mind to describe this “Time Capsule” production of A. R. Gurney’s CHILDREN which is based on a short story By John Cheever tha…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:37AMSunday, October 23, 2011
A tale of revenge told by a cast of twelve that sometimes seems to be thirty from the unbridled imagination of Justin Moran and Jonathan Roufaeal (Book & Lyrics) with a tuneful, jaunty s…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:21AMMonday, October 17, 2011
Frank Langella. Is there any other actor who can portray Gregor Antonescu, the vile financier, a man with no conscience, a man who is as charming as can be on the surface but hiding the ma…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:04AMSunday, October 16, 2011
GREENWOOD, an original new musical by Tor Hyams and Adam LeBow (Book,Music & Lyrics) is pleasant enough with its happy tunes and its feel good message that it’s never to late to fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:52PM
Two strangulations. A suicide. Incest. Treachery. War. After-life. And lots and lots of drums being beat sums up Marcus Hummon’s TUT.
This is the third musical by Marcu…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:19AMFriday, October 14, 2011
Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson give electrifying performances, igniting the dialogue and setting the stage of the Bernard Jacobs Theatre afire in the provocative, wildly imaginative, e…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:32AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Fragmented. Contrived. A gay take on Our Town. THE BUS by James Lantz has pulled up for a short run through Oct 30th at 59E59 Theater C which might be mistaken for a prop closet and no…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:59AMSaturday, October 8, 2011
Billy the Kid was just a scruffy juvenile delinquent trying to find his way through life. To help him succeed his parents gave young Billy a Colt .45 for his birthday, instructing him t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:34AMFriday, October 7, 2011
Another Follies inspired musical, this one not and a dud by first time writers Matthew Martin & Tim Realbuto (book, music and lyrics) based on Olive Thomas - a Ziegfeld Follies girl who …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Unexpected pleasures abound in this romantic, lyrical and just about perfect production of “Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice” which is now running at The Signature Theat…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:44AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Oliver! meets Annie meets Charles Busch meets Disney meets The Sound of Music meets the Pope in this absurd Catholic romp of a delightful, irreverent, charming and truly original new mus…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:35AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
With a sixteen piece orchestra and a cast of twenty one very talented students from The Program in Vocal Performance (Music and Performing Arts Professions) - NYU Steinhardt under the cari…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:03AMFriday, September 30, 2011
Sometimes rewrites are not such a good idea. In “This One Girl’s Story” a new musical which is part of NYMF’s eighth season the creators - Dionne McClain-Freeney -(…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Remember Summer Stock? That wonderful training ground, the best training ground for actors and artisans that allowed you to hone your craft over a period of twelve weeks between Memo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:38AMFour actors. One set. Hot topic. Looking to get a production, vanilla gay playwright Danny (Jonathan Groff) has submitted his first play - Call A Spade “about an alcoholic black …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:36AMSaturday, September 24, 2011
Marvell Rep presents
a staged reading of
A ROYAL MESS
by Oscar E. Moore
Adapted from “The King’s Mare” by Jean Canolle
directed by
Marc Geller
with
Jason Beaubien
…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:26AMSunday, September 18, 2011
FOLLIES - the original production - was the last show that I ever auditioned for. I was taxied downtown to a rehearsal studio with Ruth Mitchell, squeezed in between Kurt Peterson and anot…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:01AMThursday, September 15, 2011
Sally Mayes, consummate singer, gets to wear the pants and strut her inner jazz baby, riffing and skatting with the best of them in “Play It Cool” which has just opened at the Ac…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:55AMWednesday, September 14, 2011
For those of you who missed it and for those of you who want to see it again
NOIR is back for four additional performances!
this time they’re at
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMSaturday, September 3, 2011
Eric Liberman is a very talented actor who has kept in touch with yours truly and I wanted to share his latest information. It’s funny that I am about to review a new novel by M…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:05AMTuesday, August 23, 2011
I still think Aja Nisenson is an exceptionally talented young woman despite her misguided foray entitled “Daja Vu” which is being produced as part of the NY Int’l Fringe Fe…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:16AMSaturday, August 20, 2011
The teaser quote “Love and Murder at First Sight” is a promo from the film “Double Indemnity” but it can aptly apply to a new play by Stan Werse, NOIR, which is being…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:59PMI wouldn’t presume to know or explain to you what Matthew George, a recent graduate of Yale, who has written “Cow Play”, wants his audience to take home with them except fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:03AMThursday, August 18, 2011
It’s a hit! That hits you where it counts most. In the funny bone. The Legend of Julie-Taymor or The Musical That Killed Everybody! Book and Lyrics by Travis Ferguson - Music and…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:59AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Can it really be that Charles Busch has written this one dimensional play? Or has it been written by the ghost in the mirror, a man named Howard? Or has April Fools Day come around again…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:41AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
Mary-Beth Manning is a remarkable actor. Her Irish-Catholic mother was a remarkable woman. And character. The two meet head on in Ms. Manning’s one woman show “Mother - she…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:15AM 
