538 stories from Oscar E. Moore
Condensing Horton Foote's 1954 three act play (which starred Kim Stanley) into a one hour forty five minute intermission-less one act is akin to Cinderella's step sisters trying to fi…
A provincial Russian town. 1836. Corruption is rampant. Cover-ups follow. Bribes disguised as loans (the new reimbursement program) flow freely. From the Mayor to the Jud…
I had a dream. A wonderful dream…during the second act of the quite slow going WAR PAINT. Christine Ebersole had morphed from Elizabeth Arden into Mame and Patti LuPone from…
OSLO an excellent production of an excellent play has moved upstairs from the smaller Mitzi E. Newhouse to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center " original cast intact. Through J…
"Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew – Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two?" Christian Borle as Willy Wonka can! 'Cause he mixes it with love and wacky humor …
And divine she is. Bette Midler. The voice is a bit rusty. But she still retains the spunk that made her famous. The comic timing. The tilt of the head. The wink to t…
There are usually two sides to every story. In Lucas Hnath's brittle and fascinating new play A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2 based on what happened to Nora after she infamously left her husband a…
This play is important. This production is important. It deserves to be seen. It has to be seen. With an ensemble of seven extraordinary actors who play multiple parts with the e…
War is hell and so is trying to make it on Broadway with a new musical. It's not easy. In this well-intentioned but predictable BANDSTAND that begins with the sound of bombs explodin…
Is she or isn't she? Only her Grand-mama knows for sure in this new musical version of the Anastasia legend "inspired by the Twentieth Century Fox Motion Pictures" especially the …
Knee brace comes to the rescue. Andy Karl brave heart that he is should be awarded a medal for performing above and beyond the call of duty despite a torn ligament in his left knee. …
From the ridiculous to the sublime. Two shows have recently opened on Broadway. Both are very funny. Both are completely different. They are THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG and PRES…
I did not see the 2001 movie of the same title that has been adapted to the stage of the Walter Kerr Theatre by Craig Lucas (book) and score by Daniel Messe (rambling unmemorable background …
Can a 62 year old gay expatriate ex-cocktail pianist lounging around in a book lined London flat find true love " finally find his soul mate " again – after so many heartbreaks …
Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage along with her longtime director Kate Whoriskey did extensive research in 2011 traveling to Reading Pennsylvania interviewing locals " especially factory w…
Who knew that Arthur Miller could be so funny? Leave it to Danny DeVito making his Broadway debut at 72 in this Roundabout production of THE PRICE to pull the rug out from under h…
Not much has changed for the feel sorry for himself, sad and bewildered Jordan Berman (Gideon Glick) in this production that has transferred from off-Broadway to the larger Booth Theatre.…
You are on an International flight. Heading back to the USA. Suddenly you are being diverted because of an emergency in NYC. It is September 11, 2001. American airspac…
What the world needs now is NOT another revival of Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE so soon after the excellent Cherry Jones/Zachary Quinto revival of 2013 superbly directed by John T…
I can't ever remember witnessing a world famous star or anyone for that matter eliciting such a thunderous and prolonged ovation as Glenn Close did on Thursday (2/16/2017) evening after sing…
It's not a traditional play. More of an odyssey. A man searching for "something" " a man who has been married, happily it seems until the routine of married life wears thin.  Is h…
What's it all about Alfie? A question we should be asking James Lecesne the award winning author of this 95 minute no intermission rambling drama/comedy loosely directed by Tony Speciale…
When you know your people, when you are so in tune with how they speak, how they react and interact (or not) with one another; when you have something important to say with compassion, insig…
Some prefer their Chekhov straight up or neat as has been the traditional way of performing his classic tragi-comedies in the past. Not so for Andrew Upton who has taken on Chekhov's ver…
In October 2010 I reviewed "In Transit" off Broadway at 59 E 59. It was intimate. A cast of seven. All superb singers whose "harmonies were closer than a jam packed subway car du…
