538 stories from Oscar E. Moore
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. U…
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 honest…
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. …
 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 and…
 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 David Zipp…
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 re…
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 …
Never leave dirty dishes in the sink. Always make your bed. And if you don't have something nice to say, don't! But certain rules are made to be broken. Right? So here go…
This new musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder 1959 comedy starring Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe should be herewith subtitled " Thoroughly Modern Daphne or How Jerry/G…
For this we waited 58 years to see back on Broadway?! Summer Stock is alive and faltering at the August Wilson Theatre where this extremely disappointing revisal of FUNNY GIRL has recent…
There is a good reason why Neil Simon was known as The King of Comedy. And one prime example is on view at the resplendent Hudson Theatre where a slew of his theatrical posters " plays a…
As in Bernadette Peters who starred as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 at the Booth Theatre. We shared the same vocal coach. I remember arriving at James Gregory's stud…
I'd like to propose a toast! To celebrate! Here's to the entire cast, from superstars Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster to ensemble players to understudies; to all those backstage hel…
2021 is the year of SONDHEIM. Broadway: COMPANY. Off B'way: ASSASINS. Film: WEST SIDE STORY. And his untimely, sudden, unfortunate death. Flashback to 1970. After an extr…
Bringing the 1993 beloved film to Broadway now starring an equally incandescent Rob McClure as an out of work actor, facing divorce who loves his three kids so much that he manages to become…
I wondered while watching this quite expensive extravaganza if those ten year old boys sitting on their make-me-higher cushions in the audience were wondering "what do I make of all this fem…
Seriously?! At the DR2 Theatre this "new musical in the making" is more like an amateur Fringe Festival workshop production. And in need of a doctor suffering from a weak plot and fo…
Was there anyone in your past who was instrumental in guiding you through your youth, teaching you how to treat others with respect and dignity and at the same time expecting you to be treat…
A somber, melancholy atmosphere is set as one enters the Belasco Theatre by the shadowy lighting and vacant musical instruments on a bare stage as the actors slowly enter to tell their stori…
Oh what a relief it is! Laughing out loud with a packed house on Broadway! And at a funeral no less! The dearly departed in question is Bernard Jenkins (unseen until his casket is ro…
Love won. Love lost. Love regained. In short, the main plot of PERSUASION. This exceedingly well put together, charming, theatrical, humorous, anachronistic, engaging bare bo…
Going to see this production at the August Wilson Theatre on September 11 " a day of remembrance was eerily strange. It was a beautiful day. PASS OVER was to be my first show since m…
Welcome to THE TWILIGHT ZOOM. In this time travel panel experiment we meet its leader Mrs. Malaprop and her guests Dr. Faustus, Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Ruth as they discuss t…
Fads come and go. Flavors of the month come and go. As do hairdos and hemlines and bust sizes. But the infamous, legendary Jayne Mansfield still fascinates. After all, she di…
VITAGRAPH, may call to mind but should never be confused with Lucy Ricardo's VITAMEATAVEGAMIN TV commercial. Nor should it be mistaken for VITAPHONE, a sound system or BIOGRAPH, a rival …
