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Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Big Bank by Marc Miller

A couple of flaws aside, the Seligmann Brothers' corporate satire is big old-fashioned musical-comedy fun, with Klea Blackhurst a top banana for the ages.

SOURCE: Backstage at 09:00AM

Friday, September 30, 2011

Crazy, Just Like Me by Marc Miller

Drew Gasparini and Louis Sacco's bromance musical has fine moments, provided mainly by Andy Mientus and Andrew Kober, but it's severely credibility-straining and weighted with a so-so scor…

SOURCE: Backstage at 01:48AM

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Charles Winn Speaks by Marc Miller

Christopher Kipiniak is still excellent, but C.S. Hanson's extension of a one-act about a Russian emigrant investor traffics in needless detail and wild coincidence.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM

Monday, August 22, 2011

Brave Ducks by Marc Miller

Andrew Belcher's scattered satire of immigration law, government inefficiency, and much else lacks clarity, humor, resolution, and anyone on stage to root for.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:19AM

Banshee by Marc Miller

Brian C. Petti's Irish drama is an ungimmicky, affecting exploration of a sad chapter in his family's history that avoids clichés as it keeps us pulling for its likable hero.

SOURCE: Backstage at 02:54AM

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Alice by Marc Miller

This whirlwind musical tour through Wonderland, while not particularly well-wrought, does convey a childlike wonder and benefits from an imaginative small-scale staging and short running t…

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:05AM

Friday, June 10, 2011

Next Thing You Know by Marc Miller

An often lovely score gives Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham's extremely generic, haphazardly structured musical about 20-somethings in Manhattan what individuality it has.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:20AM

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

NY Review: 'The Sphinx Winx' by Marc Miller

This new Antony and Cleopatra musical comedy wants to be a burlesque laughfest in the style of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," but it's deficient in pretty much every dep…

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Dear Ruth by Marc Miller

Overacting and a too-frantic pace do not entirely obscure the charms of Norman Krasna's smart, easygoing World War II comedy.

SOURCE: Backstage at 06:01AM

Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Bad Seed by Marc Miller

Maxwell Anderson's classic look at evil veiled by innocence needs better production values and a more calculating murderess, but it's an enjoyable old-fashioned well-made play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:02AM

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