538 stories by "Oscar E Moore"
Looking for love and acceptance among the turtles and reptiles, birds and bees and dinosaurs at The Museum of Natural History our four energetic, sharp and funny infused heroes share their w…
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A tornado has hit the Belasco Theatre and her name is Tracie Bennett. She is portraying Judy Garland as we’ve never seen her before. Popping pills. Getting …
Jesus never had it so bad. First was the mediocre revival of GODSPELL and now this - the resurrection of the very famous, extremely profitable, completely sung through 1971 rock opera by…
Upon entering the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre where the rapturous and romantic new musical ONCE has opened after transferring from its Off Broadway origins - The New York Theatre Workshop - yo…
Waiting around for twenty years for just the right New York revival of his 1991 Pulitzer Prize and multi Tony Award winning play LOST IN YONKERS, Neil Simon can now bask in the glow of this …
The past is evoked not just by the memories of Willy Loman’s lost opportunities but by the astute taste of director Mike Nichols who very wisely and shrewdly has used Jo Mielziner̵…
The curse of CARRIE continues. Based on the Stephen King novel and revised after becoming one of Broadway’s biggest flops in 1988 (16 previews - 5 performances) by the same persist…
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 - “…
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…
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…
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…
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WARNING:Â 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 phar…
“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…
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…
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 t…
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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 d…
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…
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 …
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’ proc…
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Patience is a virtue. Â 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 Fugar…
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…
There won’t be any comparisons made here to the original production or the movie. Let them rest in peace.Â
This imaginative production, re-conceived and directed by Michael Maye…
In 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…
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 …
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.…
