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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.
If you were in high school in the late ’60s or early ’70s and had a streak of rebellious youth in you, chances are you got around to The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel. Hinton, who was Susan Eloise Hinton but felt it better to use her initials because who wants to read a gang-warfare…
Joy Woods and Santino Fontana (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) I Can Get It For You Wholesale By Marc Miller If Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey Evans were to hop the 20th Century Limited from Chicago to New York and trek a few blocks up from Penn Station to the heart of the 1930s Garment District, you…
Gene Gillette, Sara Haider, Joshua Echebiri (Photo: Todd Cerveris Photography) Partnership Reviewed by Marc Miller The Mint Theater Company appears unable to make up its mind these days: Theater Row or City Center? Theater Row or City Center? Its latest revival, Elizabeth Baker’s Partnership, switches back to Theater Row, but what never changes…
Anna Uzele and the company of New York, New York. (Photo: Emilio Madrid) New York, New York By Marc Miller This will be a love letter to John Kander. There’s plenty wrong with New York, New York at the St. James, though most of it can be found in the casually assembled book, by David…
The Rat Trap By Marc Miller First, a bit of history. It’s 1918, and young Noel Coward is performing in other people’s plays while trying to write his own. Under these busy circumstances he concocts The Rat Trap, which, it is speculated, he conceives to star himself and his great friend, the celebrated young actress…
Francesca Carpanini,Austin Pendleton, Angelina Fiordellisi, Uly Schlesinger Photo by Emilio Madrid This Beautiful Future By Marc Miller This Beautiful Future could have been sweet. A World War II love story, and how many of those do we get anymore, where the nice young couple overcome cultural differences, grope toward greater understanding, and point their lives…
Charles Busch photos by Carol Rosegg The Confession of Lily Dare by Marc Miller Ruth Chatterton may be an unfamiliar name to a lot of latter-day theatergoers; so, for that matter, may be Wynne Gibson, and even Helen Hayes and Claudette Colbert. But they’re the guardian angels watching over The Confession of Lily Dare,…
Jesse Pennington and Brenda Meaney Photo by Todd Cerveris. The Mountains Look Different By Marc Miller . If there’s one thing the Mint Theater Company excels at, it’s polishing—dusting off old, forgotten properties, and getting them to gleam. And if there’s another thing, it’s rediscovering playwrights we may not know about, but who…
Tootsie By Marc Miller Santino Fontana. How long have some of us been waiting for him to become the breakout star we knew he could be? The anticipation goes back at least to Sons of the Prophet, through The Importance of Being Earnest and Act One and Cinderella, not to mention all those Crazy…
Emma Geer and Nick LaMedica By Marc Miller The Mint Theater Company does well by Elizabeth Baker’s antique, but it’s hard not to feel you’re being lectured to. Elizabeth Baker’s The Price of Thomas Scott is an interesting little antique with a curious morality. The Mint Theater Company’s initial offering in its…