538 stories by "Oscar E Moore"
Neighbourhood Watch is Mr. Ayckbourn’s 75th play. He might have been wise to stop at number 74. He also directed, another suspect decision. Now don’t get me wrong.Â�…
How incredibly exciting it is to want to race home and write a review of a show that you have just seen, to spread the word at how astounding it is. Such is the case with this reinvented…
The Peccadillo Theater Company has to be applauded for attempting to revive this dated albeit classic 1939 The Man Who Came to Dinner and employing twenty three actors in the process which d…
This titillating new play by Thomas Higgins centers around a weekend camping trip in the woods with a couple of unlikely best friend Boy Scouts, a couple of yin and yang dads and one manly, …
There are thousands of Chinese characters used for writing. They are complicated. And that is not the only thing complicated about the Chinese. In David Henry Hwang latest cultur…
A remarkable and unusual new musical with beautiful words and music by Michael John LaChiusa, QUEEN OF THE MIST, will be running for only two more weeks at The Gym at Judson 243 Thompson Str…
Noel Coward’s sparring partners Amanda (the sleek, chic and ferocious Kim Cattrall) and Elyot (the debonair, callow, feisty and oh so charming Paul Gross) can’t get enough of eac…
Like most seminars there are peaks and valleys, highlights and low spots, moments of boredom, moments of ecstasy and moments that are difficult to hear as exemplified in the new play SEMINAR…
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“Bursting with energy and eagerness” “Conveys a note of honest emotion underneath the clowning” wrote Howard Taubman, New York Times theatre critic on March 27th …
The cover of the PLAYBILL for Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz isn’t the only thing that has been changed for this production which has now transferred to the Booth Theatre on Br…
This is the very sad saga of the horrible Lyons family presented in a very funny play by Nicky Silver which is now running at The Vineyard Theatre starring the ever brilliant Linda Lavin as …
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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 gro…
How 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 artis…
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…
Your enjoyment of RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by Ethan Coen “Talking Cure” - Elaine May “George is Dead” and Woody Allen “Honeymoon Motel”…
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 …
Quaint. 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 t…
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…
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 …
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…
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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 mu…
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…
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 …
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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 h…
