REVIEWS
FAILURE, A LOVE STORY, AthensWest Theatre Company:
“Marianne Miller and Shayne Brakefield play the equally ill-fated Fail parents, as well as a suite of secondary characters who populate the clock shop owned by the Fail family. These [actors] offer some of the play’s most humorous moments….”
- Lexington Herald Leader
OLD FAMILIAR FACES, New York City:
“James Patrick Nelson, as Oliver, is heartbreakingly truthful in every moment from tender to tormented. I almost feel creepy being in the room for someone else’s most intimate moments - due also to Marianne Miller’s excellent work as Lee. Miller is an actor who can move from ingénue, for which she’s likely to often be cast, to powerhouse - reminiscent of a young Kathleen Turner. And both Miller and Nelson do “overlapping banter” as well as any Sorkin regular.”
- Usher Nonsense
“…[B]oth Miller and Neslon show incredible range and dexterity throughout and especially in an epic green room argument towards the end of their volatile affair.”
- Surreal Time Press
“…Lee (Marianne Miller)…give[s a] soliloqu[y] on longing for a not-yet-lover who is filling her thoughts…that [is] as heartbreaking as anything in the theatrical canon.”
- Fanchild
“Tandy Cronyn, Marianne Miller, James Patrick Nelson, and Sam Tsoutsouvas deliver impeccable performances, endowing the three languages of this play – the personal, the Shakespearean, and the physical – with equal power and vulnerability.”
-nytheatre.com
AS YOU LIKE IT, Playmakers Repertory Company:
“Miller makes Rosalind's testing of Orlando's love while disguised as a boy the show's highlight, her timing and physical comedy endearing and delightful.”
- The News and Observer
“Miller is strong as a charismatic and at times conniving Rosalind.”
- Triangle Arts and Entertainment
“Led by Marianne Miller as a radiant Rosalind and her alter-ego, Gannymede, the cast romps down the path to earthly love…It is a treat to see Miller acting something other than the ingénue. As Rosalind banished from her uncle’s castle, she kicks off her pointy-toed girl shoes, pulls up Gannymede’s pants and strides out into the world with wit and daring and a good deal of swagger.”
- Classical Voice of North Carolina
“Miller ultimately demonstrated her versatility as an actress, becoming the cast’s leader and resident Cupid.”
- The Daily Tar Heel
IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Playmakers Repertory Company
“Still, the four work well together, especially Coffey and Miller, who make their second act jealous fight the show's highlight.”
- The News and Observer
ALL MY SONS, Playmakers Repertory Company
“When Marianne Miller's Ann emerges in Act 1, fresh air enters the room with her. Miller's depiction is strong, positive, clearly grounded in a painful past but growing from it.”
- The Independent Weekly
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, Playmakers Repertory Company
“Marianne Miller as Kate Nickleby gives another lovely performance as an innocent young woman.”
- Classical Voice of North Carolina
OPUS, Playmakers Repertory Company
“Grace...is portrayed with amusing innocence and endearing spunk by Marianne Miller.”
- The News and Observer
GLASS MENAGERIE, Playmakers Repertory Company
“First-year MFA student Marianne Miller, already noted in last fall’s Pericles, makes a fine Laura. Excess is so common in this role, but Miller plays the girl not as mad but as deeply withdrawn — crippled by shyness as much as by her bad leg.”
- Classical Voice of North Carolina
LITTLE PRINCE, Playmakers Repertory Company
“Marianne Miller makes a lovely Rose, spoiled, manipulative, and brave.”
- Classical Voice of North Carolina