Maverick NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (25)
See it if You want a tale of the later life quirks and times of all things Orson. It could use some external creative eye to trim/punch up the show.
Don't see it if An 'in' story of Welles doesn't interest you. Read more
See it if you are interested in Orson Wells, his work, his methods & the people who worked with him. Small cast does a marvelous job of multitasking
Don't see it if one note megalomaniacs are not your thing. The play consists of many short scenes that fail to meld into an emotionally satisfying whole.
See it if You are into Orson Welles, his later life.
Don't see it if you're bothered by a script that doesn't really knows what it's aiming for.
See it if an creative bio pic is your thing
Don't see it if you want music and dance
See it if you're a film buff or fan of Orson Welles. Acting is solid and good production values for small play. Some insights about Welles.
Don't see it if you don't know anything about Orson Welles or his films. Play assumes audience understands context and references.
See it if you are interested in Orson Welles. It’s a very interesting story which focuses on his later life.
Don't see it if you only like linear shows. This show jumps around in time, but it is pretty easy to follow.
See it if you, like me, ever imagined what it might be like to work with a true genius - and how that would change your life - in all of its facets.
Don't see it if you are not a fan of non-linear storytelling, or only enjoy a 'proper' play. This is a dynamically staged but non-traditional presentation.
See it if Good acting and a decent story about Welles. Good directing and lighting.
Don't see it if If you want a story that needs development and more work to it.
Critic Reviews (4)
"Boring is not a word often associated with Orson Welles but that’s what 'Maverick,' a leaden theatrical fantasia based on his monumental life and career, manages to be...Instead of an artfully whimsical take, this adaptation gives us a lumpy Welles 101, ticking off familiar events laden with the tritely imparted theme of the artist versus cold Hollywood capitalism...The bare essence of a plot tediously revolves around the development of a new video camera."
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"Demas is terrific as the auteur-magician; he might not be as big as Welles was in 1985, and his voice is not as deep and resonant, but he wonderfully captures Welles’s deceptively whimsical nature, intense curiosity...and endless imagination and charm....There’s a franticness to it all that matches the legends of Welles’s working methods, where anything could happen at any moment, all overseen by an iconoclastic mastermind and ambitious visionary who was so often ahead of his time."
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“In this pleasant and meandering memory play, we are told over and over that Welles was a genius...but we are never really shown this, and Welles and the many other characters...feel like only the outlines of people...It is overstuffed with short scenes and undeveloped characters...Frank himself never emerges as a full character...We don’t really feel how this extraordinary experience has affected him, even while we’ve enjoyed spending some time ourselves with Demas’s Orson."
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"The play’s style is stark, terse, and direct, like the text. The gray garb of all participants except the three leading players creates a pleasant monotone sense of a black-and-white film—Welles’s métier...Not as exciting as it could have been, perhaps, 'Maverick' offers a welcome glimpse into an earlier era of theatrical activity, and into the personality of a genius who burst like a flaming candle onto the scene and, sadly, flickered out at the end.”
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