'Murder Ballad' Is a Hot Night of Theater
Manhattan Theatre Club is trying to get young people to the theater, and it’s going to get them, in reams. It’s not that Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash’s musical appeals only to young people, necessarily, though the loud rock score and New York setting don’t hurt. What Nash and Jordan have written is essentially an almost plotless song cycle. But thanks to director Trip Cullman’s aggressi…