New York Notebook (Sandy MacDonald)

“But it’s hard to escape the feeling that on Broadway, Bug has lost some of its bite.”

“On the whole, Queen the musical has been shot through a vaselined lens.”

“Even as the script veers overly melodramatic or just plain creaky, its unaddressed issues roiling beneath the surface, director Thomas Kail furnishes ample aesthetic compensation – enough to keep a contemporary audience happily occupied.”

“Ickes’s freehanded adaptation of this classic cautionary tale, though superficially timely, does little to address the miscarriages of justice we’re forced to witness daily.”