538 stories by "Oscar E Moore"
Another Follies inspired musical, this one not and a dud by first time writers Matthew Martin & Tim Realbuto (book, music and lyrics) based on Olive Thomas - a Ziegfeld Follies girl who …
Unexpected pleasures abound in this romantic, lyrical and just about perfect production of “Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice” which is now running at The Signature Theat…
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Oliver! meets Annie meets Charles Busch meets Disney meets The Sound of Music meets the Pope in this absurd Catholic romp of a delightful, irreverent, charming and truly original new m…
With a sixteen piece orchestra and a cast of twenty one very talented students from The Program in Vocal Performance (Music and Performing Arts Professions) - NYU Steinhardt under the ca…
Sometimes rewrites are not such a good idea. In “This One Girl’s Story” a new musical which is part of NYMF’s eighth season the creators - Dionne McClain-Freeney …
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Remember Summer Stock? That wonderful training ground, the best training ground for actors and artisans that allowed you to hone your craft over a period of twelve weeks betwee…
Four actors. One set. Hot topic. Looking to get a production, vanilla gay playwright Danny (Jonathan Groff) has submitted his first play - Call A Spade “about an alcoholic …
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Marvell Rep presents
a staged reading of
A ROYAL MESS
by Oscar E. Moore
Adapted from “The King’s Mare” by Jean Canolle
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directed by
Marc Geller
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with
Jason Bea…
FOLLIES - the original production - was the last show that I ever auditioned for. I was taxied downtown to a rehearsal studio with Ruth Mitchell, squeezed in between Kurt Peterson and an…
Sally Mayes, consummate singer, gets to wear the pants and strut her inner jazz baby, riffing and skatting with the best of them in “Play It Cool” which has just opened at the Ac…
For those of you who missed it and for those of you who want to see it again
NOIR is back for four additional performances!
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this time they’re atÂ
The Players Theatre
115 MacDo…
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 Eric Liberman is a very talented actor who has kept in touch with yours truly and I wanted to share his latest information. It’s funny that I am about to review a new nove…
I still think Aja Nisenson is an exceptionally talented young woman despite her misguided foray entitled “Daja Vu” which is being produced as part of the NY Int’l Fringe Fe…
The teaser quote “Love and Murder at First Sight” is a promo from the film “Double Indemnity” but it can aptly apply to a new play by Stan Werse, NOIR, which is being…
I wouldn’t presume to know or explain to you what Matthew George, a recent graduate of Yale, who has written “Cow Play”, wants his audience to take home with them except fo…
It’s a hit! That hits you where it counts most. In the funny bone. The Legend of Julie-Taymor or The Musical That Killed Everybody! Book and Lyrics by Travis Ferguson - Mus…
Can it really be that Charles Busch has written this one dimensional play? Or has it been written by the ghost in the mirror, a man named Howard? Or has April Fools Day come around a…
Mary-Beth Manning is a remarkable actor. Her Irish-Catholic mother was a remarkable woman. And character. The two meet head on in Ms. Manning’s one woman show “Mother…
There’s a monkey in John’s bed. No, not a monkey but a female chimpanzee brought back from Tanzania by his wife, Mary since their marriage has become stale. John is a pro…
Death Takes a Holiday, the new Maury Yeston, Thomas Meehan, Peter Stone musical ensconced at the underground grotto theatre named Laura Pels simply dulls the spirits. I couldn’t ev…
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The Gateway Theatre’s production of SUNSET BOULEVARD is exceptional for many reasons. First and foremost is their casting veteran Broadway star (Evita, Cats, No No Nanette) L…
Good grief! When is it too soon to revive a legendary cash cow musical? A musical whose composer and lyricist died suddenly at the age of 35 the night before it was to open in 1996.�…
Somewhere betwixt and between Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Stephen Sondheim (Somewhere) and Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) can be found this very intriguing, never boring, sometimes spooky …
Can a gay valet find continued bliss with his employer after being stranded with him on a deserted island for five years (cavorting around like naked savages) and then returning, unexplained…
Family reunions are never much fun, especially if they are taking place in the Flowering Fields Nursing Home where Gus Gunther lies in a coma, deaf and dying of cancer with his extremely dys…
