Saturday, November 24, 2018
This is not a great one act play. It is a taut and timely play. A play torn from the horrific racial headlines that we read daily. And see nightly on the news. And so it is predictab…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:54AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
Remember the original Gong Show? Mid-70’s TV fare? Where amateur talent might be stopped mid-act by the “striking of a large gong” putting an abrupt end to the dubious talent on vi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:32AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Finally, a respite from mediocrity. A relief from rap and unrelenting horrible headlines. A Rolaids-like cure for indigestible musicals can be found at the Westside Theatre/Downstairs in…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:18AMThursday, November 1, 2018
At the Golden Theatre, where “An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May” opened 58 years ago, Elaine May – a spry 86 with all her faculties and comic instincts intact – is …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 03:04PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Undoubtedly those of you interested in the latest openings on and off Broadway have heard all the positive hoopla over the multiple award winning play imported from London – THE FERRYMAN w…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:04PMThursday, October 4, 2018
I would love to report that it doesn’t matter if you don’t know heads or tails of the rules of SNOOKER – a game similar to billiards (pool) made famous by Paul Newman and Jackie Gleaso…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Historical dramas can prove to be problematic. To stick to the facts or not, that is the question. In BERNHARDT/HAMLET playwright Teresa Rebeck attempts to straddle the best of both worl…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:24AMFriday, August 24, 2018
In happily-ever-after neon lit Hollywood, circa late 1980’s just about anything plausible and implausible can happen, especially in a musical, from this unique perspective �…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMSaturday, August 4, 2018
Ah! Love! What is love but a four letter word? A word much used and oft abused. It can mean a multitude of things and comes in all kinds of combinations and varieties. Every…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:04PMSaturday, July 28, 2018
On view at the Helen Hayes Theater is STRAIGHT WHITE MEN written by Young Jean Lee who has the distinction of being the first Asian-American woman to be produced on Broadway. A Second Stag…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:18AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
I’ll make this short and unfortunately not so sweet. You will most probably leave this most recent reincarnation of this mostly problematic musical humming a few of its wonderful songs (mu…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:04AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Dramatists Guild Criticizes Marginalization of Writers at the 2018 Tony Awards by BWW News Desk BroadwayWorld.com Jun. 14, 2018 Tweet Share Dough Wright, president of the Dramatists…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:24PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Are you up to the challenge? Are you willing to commit both time and that all important commodity, money, into seeing this once in a lifetime theatrical experience? This is a stunner of a …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:36AMThursday, May 3, 2018
How wise was director Mr. George C. Wolfe in this long night’s journey into a bar – to cut it down somewhat, quicken its pace, mine it for its humor and to cast terrific supporting b…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
On April 26, 1977 Studio 54 opened. On April 26, 2018 I attended the new musical based on the life of the most famous Disco Queen that reigned supreme at Studio 54 – Donna Summer …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:48AMThursday, April 26, 2018
After seeing a matinee performance of the sumptuous Lincoln Center Theater revitalized revival of MY FAIR LADY I can only say one thing – that I wish I could have seen it again. Imme…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:33PMThursday, April 19, 2018
Back to basics. Strong story. Gorgeous melodies. Smart lyrics. Uncomplicated sets. No projections. I’ve just about had it with projections. Incredibly creative choreog…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 03:06PMSunday, April 15, 2018
Somewhere in the middle or I should say the muddle of the first act of the overly long, much too loud, pulsating and bombastic two act MEAN GIRLS, while being distracted by two twenty-someth…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:41AMFriday, April 6, 2018
Like the proverbial old gray mare, A isn’t what she used to be. She is worse. A is wealthy and ailing. A is 92 insisting that she is 91. A is disgruntled and demanding. A …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:44AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
Sometimes it takes a volcanic eruption to open your eyes to love and sometimes it takes a shower of beach balls to make memorable a rather silly musical. The musical in question is …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:36AMTuesday, April 3, 2018
An almost perfect alignment of writing, casting, design and direction have resulted in a monumental eight hour, double bill theatrical marathon. It is a fantastical achievement. First prod…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:46AMMonday, April 2, 2018
Call me a Mouseketeer. Call me a kid. Call me a boob. Whatever. I am a fan of Disney’s new musical FROZEN on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. In the great old tradition of Tink…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMThursday, March 8, 2018
What would you do? You are happily married with two children (a boy and a girl) and have just given birth to a third – a girl who the doctor has, unfortunately, told you is a “Mong…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:40AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
You might want to see this Royal Court Theatre production of HANGMEN more than once at the Atlantic Theater Company on West 20th Street. And not because it is written by Martin McDonagh. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:01AMSunday, February 18, 2018
Five Irish women. Family and frenemies and one germ-a-phobic manic-depressive obsessive compulsive acquaintance. Girl talk ensues. Men in and out of their lives. Chatty. Gossipy. …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:06AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
There’s some good news and some rather dreary news to report about this Lithgow family “show and tell” Roundabout production that has taken roughly ten years to get to the Ameri…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:29AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
For those of you who can’t enough of Handel sung beautifully by the renowned countertenor Iestyn Davies as the “singing” Farinelli (a renowned 18th century castrato) hie thee over to t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:18AMSaturday, December 16, 2017
Twenty minutes into this 80 minute puzzling and slight but bloated idea penned by Steve Martin, there I sat – fourth row on the aisle – at the Booth Theatre – wonder…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:04PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Who knew? Who knew that a simple sponge living in a pineapple at the bottom of the sea in a town called Bikini Bottom could erupt on Broadway at the Palace Theatre as an ingenious, put-a-s…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:36AMMonday, December 11, 2017
You might be interested in the fact that ultra-cool socialite Chloe (Uma Thurman) one half of a Washington D.C. power couple – the other half being her successful well connected tax attorn…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMThursday, December 7, 2017
A perfect cast. A perfect score. A perfect story of forbidden love on a hurricane ravaged island in the French Antilles. There are no commercials and no intermission at Circle in the S…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AM 
