538 stories by "Oscar E Moore"
Good story telling never goes out of style as evidenced by the extremely satisfying three course gourmet meal served up by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Horton Foote with his trio of sho…
Over at the Cherry Lane Theatre is one of the most bizarre, unsettling and purely theatrical offerings of this years FringeNYC Festival. It is called THE DICK AND THE ROSE but it might h…
Why wasn’t I standing and cheering enthusiastically at the end of NIGHTFALL ON MIRANGA ISLAND at The Players Theatre as I did when I saw the original version in Oct. 2011 at The Magnet…
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I’m still laughing. I’m still amazed at the blast of unabashed young talent that makes the world premiere of PANORAMANIA so refreshing. So exciting. So musical.�…
What better way to introduce children to the ballet than to take them to see ORPHAN TRAIN which is being performed as part of FringeNYC - a production of The Present Company and The Covenant…
Various ways of doing oneself in - a bullet to the head (Richard, an engineer who has made a big mistake - Seth Blum), an overdose of pills (Samantha, a young girl who couldn’t cope…
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There has been a motorcycle accident involving other cars on I-95. Only we do not know this immediately. James (Josh Bywater) and Mildred (Kerry Fitzgibbons) are in surgery as t…
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Actors who are not yet members of the “Union - AEA” are considered non-equity. And these actors will do just about anything to get into the union - play cows, go out of …
The good news is that this exhilarating and highly entertaining competitive cheerleading new musical BRING IT ON, in a limited run at the St. James Theatre, has been extended through Jan. 20…
What a magnificent revival this is. It seems as though INTO THE WOODS, the 1987 award winning musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, was expressly written to be performed in the o…
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Chances are that this new “slap-stick comedy” with its attention getting but misleading title BULLET FOR ADOLF wouldn’t be opening at the New World Stages had it not …
Good guy or bad guy? That’s the question that Brandon Wood attempts to answer lock, stock and barrel in this intriguing and promising soft rock meets Nashville sounding musical TOM…
It’s a smoker - the very last one vs. the non-smokers in this absurd farce of a musical - THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERCIA - which is the brain storm of Bill Russell (Book and lyrics) with a…
Based on Mark Twain’s story of switched identities and performed in French with simultaneous English translations of dialogue and songs projected on a Samsung monitor, Le Prince et Le …
Everyone in this ill conceived rock musical, STAND TALL, is being bullied. Goliath (Gerard Canonico) by his father Cassius - a garage mechanic - abuses his wife and angry son. The sh…
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Down we go, once again, into that infamous rabbit hole that will lead Alice to Wonderland. Only this time Alice (Ming Peiffer) is an apprehensive young girl who has problems w…
In the dark as the actors enter the performance space at Joyce Soho - 155 Mercer Street - you will hear the clicking and clacking of tap shoes. As the lights go up and the incredibly won…
The special effects by Tony Doublin, John Naulin, John Buechler, Tom Devlin & Greg McDougall are the highlight in this uneven, gore filled, newish musical (It’s been running in LA …
Joey, Lincoln Center Theater’s War Horse has met his match at the Ice Factory Festival production of MISS LILLY GETS BONED with Harold - an amazing African elephant who has been extrem…
There are “fractured fairy tales” and then there is SPOOLIE GIRL - a new split personality musical by Robert W. Atwood (book) and Rosemary Loar (co-book, music, lyrics and vocal …
Oh, the glorious sound of words. The words of James Joyce and his muse/lover and eventual wife as interpreted by the multi talented Jonathan Brielle in his new musical HIMSELF and NORA.�…
The management of the 45th Street Theatre should be ashamed for not having repaired their air conditioner where FLAMBE DREAMS is being performed under sweltering conditions. The heat in …
Where else will you find a love song entitled “Plumbing” sung in a harem in Turkey, accents (French, American, Italian, Greek, German, Russian, British and Turkish) running rampa…
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The ninth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival is off to a shaky start. He’s Not Himself, after eleven drafts, is just not ready. Chosen to be part of The Festiv…
All those feisty female dinosaurs over at the SOHO Playhouse on Vandam Street are working their tails off as well as that other body part that is specifically male (something about frog DNA)…
