538 stories by "Oscar E Moore"
It’s probably a bit late to secure a reasonably priced seat for the hottest show in town (running ONLY through January 5th) but if you can you must see this exquisite and stylishly …
The Gaesling family has seen better days - although you wouldn’t know it as they are having a champagne breakfast in their sumptuous lodge outside of Syracuse New York (another masterf…
It was risky producing Rupert Holmes’ adaptation of John Grisham’s 1989 best selling novel A TIME TO KILL without some heavy duty stars in roles made famous on the screen (1996) …
Fans of Norbert Leo Butz can rejoice. Mr. Butz is starring in the mediocre new musical BIG FISH with a mediocre score by Andrew Lippa and a mixed up book by John August who adapted his C…
Director Lindsay Steven Posner has done a superb job in transplanting The Old Vic Production of Terence Rattigan’s THE WINSLOW BOY (not seen in New York since 1947 and based on an actu…
Janis Joplin was lonely. Lonely in the extreme.  As she keeps reminding us in this celebratory concert of her life A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN on stage at The Lyceum Theatre that ha…
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Fortunately, Dee Dee Bridgewater is the star of this show, making her mark as the legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, caressing each word with tones that create the exact image of …
An amazing production. You will not soon forget - if ever - the emotional impact of the extraordinary minimalist and daring re-imagining of Tennessee Williams’ iconic and tragic, s…
For all those theatrical trivia buffs interested in whatever happened to William Inge’s NATURAL AFFECTION (which might have been better titled UN-NATURAL AFFECTION) his 1963 drama that…
Without two believable, likable, youthful looking and attractive actors in the roles of Romeo and Juliet you might as well not raise the curtain even if there is no curtain which is the case…
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A. Who is Bradley Cole? B. What is Bradley Cole? B first. BRADLEY COLE is a cute new feel good about yourself musical fable of and for today - reminiscent of shows w…
Thank goodness for the Fringe Festival where would be writers of musical comedies get to sow their oats. COWBOY’S DON’T SING is in its infancy and the Fringe affords its writ…
Finding love with just the right person today should be easy. Right? I mean with Google and Match.com and well meaning friends and relatives who just want to help you find Mr. or Ms.…
The long journey of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (a captivating Eric Anderson) escaping Nazi infested Vienna to New York’s Columbia University to the Village Gate to the Golden Gate to Flori…
There are telltale signs throughout PERFECTLY NORMEL PEOPLE written and directed by the husband and wife team of Thomas and Judy Heath which is being presented as part of the FringeNYC festi…
Now that the air conditioning is working sporadically at Walkerspace (it’s disabled during the play and put back on during intermission) the only discomfort is sitting through this lon…
Irene Castle (a superb Lynne Wintersteller) was certainly a complex and fascinating woman as portrayed in the new musical CASTLE WALK as part of the New York Musical Festival’s tenth s…
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Can a thirty year old Little Harry (a tall, harried and excellent Robb Sapp) break free of Big Harry (Philip Hoffman) - a Don Juan wannabe without hurting the family business - an Ital…
Into the woods and wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, where Big Foot aka the Sasquatch - Arthur (a believably human and centered T.J. Mannix) has been sited by a local dim witted camper an…
In this Marx Brothers, Saturday Night Live, Sid Caesar Show of Shows inspired Victorian fractured fairy tale farce THE EXPLORERS CLUB written by Nell Benjamin which can at times be hysterica…
There was Bernie Madoff. The Unavoidable Disappearance of TOM DURNIN is not a play about Bernie Madoff. It is a compelling new work by Steven Levenson about a similar man in a simila…
What if? What if you imagined what it would be like to be hired by “the lady of the house” in Malibu to work in her self designed basement mall - a series of “shoppes&#…
This one person multi-media production does nothing to make you want to run out and read anything that Susan Sontag ever wrote - especially her journals on which SONTAG: REBORN is based - ed…
For all you lonely young singles out there, here is a show for you. But be forewarned: drinking and falling in lust with the wrong person in a bar could be dangerous to your health. …
MURDER BALLAD - a lusty rock opera fable for our times
REVIEW will be posted May 23rd, 2013
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MURDER BALLAD was originally produced in New Yrok City by the Manhattan Theatre Club
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