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Marc Miller has been going to the theater since seeing I Married an Angel with Don Ameche and Margaret Whiting at Shady Grove Music Fair in 1964. When not theatergoing, he bikes, works out, writes songs, and binges on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Austin Lightning Carrothers, Cecily Lyn Benjamin (Photo: Pavan Carter) Building the Wall By Marc Miller on June 12, 2026 Political theater doesn’t get much more political than Building the Wall, Robert Schenkkan’s 2017 two-hander now in timely revival at Urban Stages. Schenkkan, author of the Pulitzer-winning The Kentucky Cycle and other notable plays, many of…
I saw the title The Balusters and thought OK, this will be about Mr. and Mrs. Baluster. Wrong! Turns out a baluster is “any of the small posts that support the upper rail of a railing, as on a staircase,” as Webster has it. They’re of concern to architectural preservationists and hardly anybody else, and…
The tradition dates back at least to Oh, Boy! in 1917, and though it’s since fallen out of favor, it held sway for decades: the notion that an unlikely character getting inebriated was automatically hilarious. Comic drunk scenes were a staple of pre-Code movie comedies, and they populated plenty of plays, too. Fallen Angels, Noel…
Adrian Brody, Tessa Thompson (Photo: Emilio Madrid) The Fear of 13 By Marc Miller on April 21, 2026 The woman behind me kept murmuring, “Oh, my God, oh, my God.” She was responding to the parade of indignities and setbacks being visited upon our protagonist in The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino’s docudrama at the…
Sierra Boggess, Adam Jacobs (Photo: Shawn Salley) Monte Cristo By Marc Miller on March 28, 2026 The ladies’ dresses are long and flouncy, the men’s vests bright and ornate, the cello and viola are sawing away in the pit, the lyricist is rhyming “reign” with “a-gain,” and the chorus is singing about injustice, class distinction,…
David Lee Huynh, Melissa Maxwell, Sean Runnett, Douglas Rees, David T Patterson (Photo: Todd Cerveris) Zack By Marc Miller on March 9, 2026 An unambitious, ordinary, middle-class young man has been hassled by those around him into considering himself a nonentity. Along comes a spirited, forward-thinking young woman who sees qualities in him that others…
Tedra Millan, Max Gordon Moore, Maddie Corman, Ethan Slater (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Marcel on the Train By Marc Miller on February 27, 2026 From the looks of it, much of the audience at Classic Stage Company probably remembers Marcel Marceau. He was a mime, widely considered the greatest in the world, and widely derided by…
Ariana Debose, Scott Bakula and the Ensemble (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) The Baker’s Wife By Marc Miller on November 19, 2025 The pretty young woman is erotically drawn to the sexy young stud, but for plot reasons she’s committed to the much less attractive older man, and after a tryst with the young…
Kristin Chenoweth (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Queen of Versailles By Marc Miller on November 10, 2025 You may have your quibbles about The Queen of Versailles—I know I do—but there’s no denying, in terms of professionalism, this show is off the charts. The new musical at the St. James boasts a big cast, a huge…
Ryan Crout and the Cast (Photo: Russ Rowland) Not Ready for Prime Time By Marc Miller on October 21, 2025 The 2024 Sony Pictures release Saturday Night dramatizes, and I use the term loosely, the chaos and anarchy that preceded the launch of NBC’s Saturday Night (the Live didn’t happen till the second season) on…