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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

A Christmas Carol - a cornucopia of treats for the holiday season by Oscar E. Moore

From the moment one enters the beautiful and appropriately old fashioned Lyceum Theatre – a perfect fit as it turns out to house this dickens of a production – one is beguiled

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 10:06AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Tina - the Tina Turner musical starring a sensational Adrienne Warren by Oscar E. Moore

What’s love got to do with it? As it turns out. An awful lot.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:12AM
Friday, November 1, 2019

The Lightning Thief - the Percy Jackson musical OR a Poseidon misadventure on Broadway by Oscar E. Moore

This bloated, mythological frenetic fantasy now at The Longacre Theatre runs over two hours with a top price of almost two hundred dollars - water 6 bucks, candy for the kiddies 5 bucks

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:48AM
Saturday, October 26, 2019

The Rose Tattoo - Marisa Tomei & Emun Elliott and a flock of plastic pink flamingos by Oscar E. Moore

If you survive the melodramatic Act I you will suddenly find yourself in I LOVE LUCY land in Act II.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 12:06PM
Saturday, October 19, 2019

The Sound Inside - starring an extraordinary Mary-Louise Parker who has met her match with newcomer Will Hochman by Oscar E. Moore

A superb, fresh, new, original, compelling, mysterious, intriguing 90 minute two character play by Adam Rapp that has just opened at Studio 54 directed by David Cromer

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 12:06PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019

The Great Society - Misfires with a disappointing Brian Cox as LBJ by Oscar E. Moore

The production is too big. Too loud. Too academic. With little emotion. Or humor. It becomes a play about exits and entrances between the avalanche of details and facts.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 11:24AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Linda Vista - Highly recommended. Through November 10th at Second Stage Theater by Oscar E. Moore

An extremely funny play. Truthful and moving with dialogue that is sharp and wise and caustic about this troubled Dick who is caught between his past and his future all the while having to …

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 09:24AM
Monday, September 30, 2019

The Height of the Storm - Starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins by Oscar E. Moore

Intriguing and enigmatic. Dementia is difficult to deal with. So is death. Playwright Florian Zeller explains in a most unusual and unconventional way.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 12:12PM
Monday, September 9, 2019

Betrayal - Jamie Lloyd’s radical, reimagined and breathtaking production by Oscar E. Moore

From the opening tableau this sexual love triangle tango for three sets a slow, steady and seductive pace that transfixes the audience into complete silence. The bar has been set quite high …

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:42AM
Sunday, August 4, 2019

Moulin Rouge! the musical - the extravagant, big budget, song stuffed musical falls short in the sizzle department by Oscar E. Moore

There is a smorgasbord of styles for us to digest. Is it a true love story? Is it a farce? A tragedy? Is it a tale told with tongue in highly rouged cheek or is it just a glitzy and glam…

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 07:32AM
Friday, June 28, 2019

Stonewall - celebrating 50 years of pride by Oscar E. Moore

Listen to WALK HAND IN HAND an anthem written to celebrate 25 years - produced in 1995. We've come this far. Time to continue...

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 07:12AM
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Author Peter Filichia explains how his play God Shows Up came into being - Part Two by Oscar E. Moore

God Shows Up - Part Two - So I wrote a one-man show called BACK FROM THE STARS, in which God says

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 12:06PM
Monday, June 10, 2019

Author Peter Filichia explains how his play God Shows Up came into being by Oscar E. Moore

Peter Filichia, the author of the wonderful and witty off Broadway play God Shows Up, explains how his play came into being. “GOD SHOWS UP actually happened because of Eric Krebs - the lo…

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 04:06PM
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune revival starring Audra McDonald & Michael Shannon by Oscar E. Moore

A raw and romantic evening. Full of disclosures and discoveries. A master class in acting and directing. See this wonderful production and don’t be afraid to take a chance on love whenev…

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 12:48PM
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Hillary and Clinton on Broadway - starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow - the art of the almost deal behind closed doors by Oscar E. Moore

There isn’t much meat on the bones here but what meat there is, it is fun to chew on and completely digestible in this most original theatrical exercise.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 09:33AM
Monday, May 6, 2019

Gary a sequel to Titus Andronicus starring Nathan Lane by Oscar E. Moore

In 90 minutes. Give or take how many laughs pile up during the performance. And there are many.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:42AM
Friday, May 3, 2019

Tootsie starring Santino Fontana is FAB-U-LOUS - a tour de force production that will have the producers laughing all the way to the you-know where by Oscar E. Moore

If it is possible to get double Tony Awards for portraying Dorothy Michaels and Michael Dorsey then Santino Fontana should be the one to get them.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:33PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

All My Sons - revival starring Annette Bening, Tracy Letts & Benjamin Walker by Oscar E. Moore

Arthur Miller dishes out the drama bit by bit as we discover what it is that makes this family tick until it explodes like the thunderstorm that opens the drama.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 12:18PM
Sunday, April 28, 2019

This drop dead awful Beetlejuice is best forgotten by Oscar E. Moore

This weird madhouse of cartoon characters and puppets and ridiculous goings-on has been directed by that mad-cap director Alex Timbers. After the intermission I didn’t think it could get a…

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Ink - starring Jonny Lee Miller and Bertie Carvel: a year in the life of the SUN vs the MIRROR - David vs Goliath by Oscar E. Moore

The show belongs to Jonny Lee Miller and he does a fantastic job but we don’t really care for any of them. Murdoch lives on.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Oklahoma! 6 Outer Critics Circle nominations including Outstanding Revival of a Musical by Oscar E. Moore

From the opening notes of “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” sung quietly by Curly with only his guitar and his twang we are in the newly found territory created by Daniel Fish that is a wond…

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Burn This - starring Adam Driver & Keri Russell by Oscar E. Moore

With wit and a huge heart. All the elements come together to make a most satisfying journey through the land of love

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Monday, April 22, 2019

A Bloody Mess is Sam Gold's King Lear starring Glenda Jackson by Oscar E. Moore

As Lear goes mad, one sitting and watching and listening while awaiting the end may grow madder. I did. If rosemary is for remembrance this KING LEAR should be forgotten.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Hadestown on Broadway - Bourbon Street bluesy folk opera’s trip to hell by Oscar E. Moore

A sometimes exciting, sometimes repetitive, sometimes off the track lavish sweaty and sultry production

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Monday, April 1, 2019

What the Constitution Means to Me - starring author and performer Heidi Schreck on Broadway by Oscar E. Moore

Heidi Schreck is quite funny and engaging and verbose and smart and a clever storyteller with an agenda. Patience and persistence and passion have paid off.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Saturday, March 30, 2019

ain't too proud - the life and times of THE TEMPTATIONS by Oscar E. Moore

Moving along at a speed much faster than a vintage LP recording thanks to a turntable and conveyor belt that seem appropriate for this well-oiled assembly line product

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Nantucket Sleigh Ride by John Guare - An hour and fifteen minutes worth of absurd farce in two acts by Oscar E. Moore

A wild romp through the memory of Edmund Gowery – a venture capitalist who once wrote a hit play “Internal Structure of Stars” - if you are adventurous

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Monday, March 25, 2019

Be More Chill the Broadway musical - Just take this pill, it's called a Squip. It's from Japan by Oscar E. Moore

Still trying to “chill out” after seeing the social media cult sensation sci-fi cautionary teenage tale of woe musical

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Kiss Me, Kate! - a superb feast of a show at Studio 54 by Oscar E. Moore

Get thee hence and luxuriate in the music of Cole Porter who is on a par with Shakespeare as a master of words. “So in Love” says it all.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird - Aaron Sorkin's new, re-imagined, re-structured riveting look at a classic story opens on Broadway by Oscar E. Moore

It’s the best of folks and the worst of folks – featuring the good the bad and the truth. An unflinching look at race relations that is as relevant today as it was then.

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM

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