Saturday, May 10, 2025
Packed or should I say over-stuffed into two hours and thirty-five minutes with intermission at the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on West 47th Street is this 89 pe…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:12AMFriday, April 18, 2025
Oh Boy! Buckle up! This is one bumpy/lumpy musical! SMASH – the making of a musical based on Marilyn Monroe called BOMBSHELL with an emphasis on “BOMB” that recently opened at the Im…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 04:36PMThursday, April 10, 2025
There’s a new girl in town. A fascinating girl. Talent oozing out of every single pore. Sweetly singing or confidently belting with tip-top tapping and stealing our hearts along the …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:24PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
This review will be short. And not very sweet. Be forewarned. If you intend to pay big bucks to see a disappointing, not very charismatic George Clooney endlessly smoking, live and in …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:36AMMonday, March 31, 2025
SARAH SNOOK is Dorian Gray. And a gaggle of supporting characters in this spellbinding, sophisticated and surprising production of Oscar Wilde’s infamous novella, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN G…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:36AMSaturday, January 11, 2025
To be perfectly clear. Audra, as in McDonald. Starring as Momma Rose, the very determined, very pushy stage mother dreaming of making her daughter June a star in Vaudeville while her sis…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:32PMSaturday, December 7, 2024
If only! The bar of excellence has once again been lowered for quality musicals on Broadway. Perhaps I should rephrase by writing “non-musical musicals” for these productions lack th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:18PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
I have never been a fan of Sunday. Especially a Sunday when I am scheduled to review at 3pm a new musical – TAMMY FAYE – that has gotten less than stellar reviews and some bad word of …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AMMonday, November 18, 2024
Attend the tale of Satchmo’s wives. Four in all. For all to see. In this spotty, chaotic production of A WONDERFUL WORLD – the Louis Armstrong musical at STUDIO 54 where a road m…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:06AMMonday, October 21, 2024
I don’t think that this review will sell many tickets. But with Adam Driver as its star attraction – live and in person, close up and personal – does it matter? I think not. The …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AMSaturday, October 12, 2024
OUR TOWN has a new look. Integrated. Dr. Gibbs and family are black. And fit in just as natural as the white folks next door. The Webbs. Color doesn’t matter as we all share the sa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:32PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
The less said or written about this latest Lincoln Center catastrophe the better. McNEAL, starring Artificial Intelligence and featuring Robert Downey Jr. making his Broadway debut. Anyo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:18AMSunday, September 29, 2024
Did he say he was from New Canaan or New Haven? I really can’t remember. It’s been quite a long time that I cared to speak to someone while minding my own business sitting on a bench…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:36AMFriday, August 16, 2024
O woe is me! Well…here goes. A mild mannered, mediocre, meandering musical. Music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rogers; mother of Adam Guettel – great musical genes inherit…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AMMonday, April 29, 2024
Feeling blue? Down in the dumps? Have your tickle bones not been tickled lately? The extremely talented and wonderfully funny Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and company might just be…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 05:12PMFriday, April 26, 2024
As we bid a not so fond farewell to the most recent Broadway season with this car wreck of a musical THE GREAT GATSBY we ask ourselves why? Why import a mediocre musical from New Jersey’…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:54AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
London, Elizabethan England, 1601 For some, forsooth, I am merely a vagabond – a worthless novelty. I have been accused of wasting my time and the time of others – attempting to …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 03:18PMThursday, April 18, 2024
This a short somewhat strange take of a new and original musical titled LEMPICKA – not a review – that I had cancelled by the PR folks shortly before I was ready to head out to see it as…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:12PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
In the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear. A dullness at first. Then grayness. Then little or no li…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:35AMFriday, March 15, 2024
To be perfectly clear this is not GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen. This is Ibsen’s Ghost by Charles Busch infamous Queen of drag who can sometimes, most times be a riot on stage in his many portr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
I have a cousin. She’s a mosquito. I am a fly. A reincarnated fly. Oh, the stories I could tell – this being one of them… Matthew by name. Our families somehow, somewhere h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMThursday, December 21, 2023
So what! So I haven’t got any professional experience. Just loads of school stuff. Starring roles, by the way. I keep telling myself over and over it doesn’t matter. It doesn�…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
There have been many a Christmas tree in my life. Even a Hanukkah Bush. But few were chosen. And so, I take this time to reflect. A very personal view. From the ridiculous – does a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:48AMFriday, August 18, 2023
Disclaimer #1 I never saw JAWS the movie nor did I ever want to. Disclaimer # 2 I read the script the night before I saw the production at The John Golden Theater on West 45th Street. No…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:19PMFriday, July 28, 2023
An overwrought, disappointing production. Hardly worth all the effort that the participants are so forcefully putting forth to be quaint, amusing, sexy and unbelievably outrageous. Unfor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Thank you Susan Stroman! Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many. For your dedication and artistic vision. Your creativity. For your honesty and fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMFriday, April 21, 2023
Go-o-o-ollee! It’s been said that “laughter is the best medicine” – that is, second only to corn whiskey. So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:48AMMonday, April 17, 2023
In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe’s melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:24AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Poor Cyndi! Forced to being an outcast ‘cuz she doesn’t conform to the standards set forth in Belleville where “beauty is a duty” – just one of the not-so-nifty lyrics of Davi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMFriday, March 17, 2023
Be prepared. Jessica Chastain is spectacular as Nora Helmer. As she sits seemingly spellbound in a chair on a bare stage, dressed in dark blue, alone with her striking profile and red ha…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:44AMMonday, March 6, 2023
This won’t take long. Much shorter than the two act, two hour and forty minute excruciating exercise on view at The Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street co-authored by Zuzanna Szadkowski …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AM 
