538 stories from Oscar E. Moore
You might want to see this Royal Court Theatre production of HANGMEN more than once at the Atlantic Theater Company on West 20th Street. Â And not because it is written by Martin McDonagh.…
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. …
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 American Ai…
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 the Bel…
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…
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…
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 attorney…
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…
Remember the ad campaign for real Levy's Jewish Rye Bread?  "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Real Jewish Rye.” Well you don't have to be Latino to love John Legui…
TULIS McCALL  ALL IN GOOD TIME Tulis McCall is unbelievable and unabashedly honest and funny to a fault. If you are feeling the onset of old age (and who isn't) you will definitel…
You will not soon forget THE BAND'S VISIT. Nor should you. In a small Israeli town (circa 1996) in the desert " its people are waiting for something different " anything " to happen.…
In this uneven and unbalanced revisal of the 1988 multiple award winning production of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang you may find yourself as confused as its leading character Rene Galli…
It's virtually impossible to fill those bunny rabbit slippers worn so majestically and confidently by Harvey Fierstein in his original production of TORCH SONG TRILOGY some 35 years ago whic…
At the Wednesday evening performance that I attended (10/25/17) James Morgan (Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company) in his opening remarks in his own inimitable style announced that…
This Roundabout revival of J. B. Priestley's three act drama is just adequate.  And seems longer than it actually is. There are some high points and an equal amount of low …
This newest play by Amy Herzog and directed by Anne Kauffman features a cast of five women spearheaded by Carrie Coon as Mary Jane. You wouldn't want to be in her shoes. She is strong, c…
Welcome to the dystopian world of Anthony Burgess as seen through the eyes of Alexandra Spencer-Jones set in England " Today. It might be better set in 1984. This ultra-violent, unpleasa…
Sarah Ruhl's mom Kathleen grew up playing Peter Pan in Iowa. As in why oh why oh why-o? Excuse me that's Ohio. In any event she played Peter in Community Theater in Iowa. Now …
You know, he's the guy with the glasses perched atop his mostly bald pate. Prince. Hal Prince. Producer. Director.  Visionary. Twenty one count 'em twenty one Tony Awa…
Jerry Lewis passed away last week. If you are of a certain age, that is a notable item for throughout his long and public life he was a man of consequence. He was indeed worthy of a “f…
Chances are there are not too many people who have heard of the American artist John Banvard who found his fifteen minutes of international fame painting a three mile long "moving" panorama …
Beth David and Esteban Bravo have created an instant masterpiece. Â It is magical and moving with a beautiful score. Â Without a single word of dialogue it conveys what one’s heart…
Are we at The Public Theater or La Mama or some Greek amphitheater to witness the revenge tragedy of Hamlet starring Oscar Isaac (scampering around barefoot in his black undies and te…
Playwright Meghan Kennedy remembers Mama in her scattered memory kitchen sink drama NAPOLI, BROOKLYN " a series of short all-around-the-mulberry-bush scenes now playing off-Broadway at the L…
When does two plus two not equal four? When you are being subjected to torture till submission. That is the horrific answer that George Orwell proposed with his ground breaking 1949 …
