538 stories by "Oscar E Moore"
You will be amazed, surprised and thrilled. You will laugh. You will sing along. You will come under the spell of the magic created by some of the best creative minds and perform…
For anyone seeking some biographical information about super agent to the A-list stars Sue Mengers during her heyday of 1970’s Hollywood just GOOGLE. If you desire to see the next …
From the Barrington Stage Musical Theater Lab to the Duke on 42 Street comes an odd, ambitious and contemporary new musical THE MEMORY SHOW by Sara Cooper (Book & Lyrics) and Zach Redler…
Stark, searing and sensational. The best revival or new play I have seen this season. This production of the timeless ORPHANS by Lyle Kessler excels on so many levels under the exper…
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What’s most missing in this Hollywood artifact dug up by the Roundabout Theatre Company - not seen here for sixty years? A biting edge and that most important word - STYL…
It’s 1937 and Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane) headliner at The Irving Place Theatre where burlesque is gasping its final breath and the balcony is a playground for homosexual hanky panky …
The Richard Greenberg prolific writing factory has been working overtime this season. With mixed results. His adaptation of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S has prematurely closed. H…
Can it be possible? Can MOTOWN, the musical produced and written by Motown’s founder Berry Gordy (an excellent Brandon Victor Dixon) run off with many of the musical awards this se…
The much ballyhooed, highly hyped, multiple award winning Royal Shakespeare Company musical MATILDA has opened on Broadway with four young girls alternating in the part of the highly intelli…
Can a bevy of high kicking and singing drag queens led on by Lola (a phenomenal Billy Porter - a composite of Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Whitney Houston and Effie from Dreamgirls) save the…
Full speed ahead! And the pace never lets up in this respectful yet disappointing expose of tabloid journalism by Nora Ephron circa 1985. We are barraged by the cast with short, loud…
Most everything about the new musical HANDS ON A HARDBODY is wonderful. Everything, that is, except its title.  A title that doesn’t sing - doesn’t say this is a musical. …
In the opening moments of this disjointed, noiresque, bummer of a production the question is asked, “Where is she?” referring to the heroine of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S - Hol…
It’s not diamonds that are a girl’s best friend but booze in this admirable but creaky revival of HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Anita Loos who is most famous for writing “Gentlemen Pre…
Is this really how the Me-Generation, the I-Generation, the I-Pod, I-Pad Generation thinks and acts to survive and get ahead to achieve what they think they want?Â
The answer from young p…
June 28, 1969. It’s a hot and muggy night and the gays and lesbians of Greenwich Village New York City have been shattered by the death of their beloved icon Judy Garland - Patron …
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There’s a ball, a banquet, a bachelor looking for a friend, a newly empowered Ella, a flying fairy godmother, Venetian glass slippers, dancing trees, a fox, a raccoon, an electio…
In this splendid revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1980 Pulitzer award winning play TALLEY’S FOLLY the language of love reigns supreme. Â It’s July 4th 1944.
As beautifully dir…
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…
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…
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…
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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 Lies̶…
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…
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…
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…
