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Flies! The Musical!

In FLIES!, Driscoll lets his theater kid freak flag fly, milking every comedic moment for all it's worth. As the teens descend from semi-focused rehearsing into pure insanity, Driscoll keeps the action moving and the laughs coming. This tribute to teen angst, musical theater and bloodlust is zany fun with enough darkness to make Golding proud.

-Lauren Emily Whalen, Windy City Times

FLIES! THE MUSICAL! deserves much buzz and praise.

-Misha Davenport, broadwayworld.com

Directed with tongue-in-cheek tomfoolery, Michael Driscoll mines every ounce of comedy from this inventive script. Directed, musically guided and choreographed with brilliance, and featuring a talented cast of triple-threats, there’s no better way to end the school year and begin Summer vacation than with Pride Films & Plays’ wonderfully funny, tuneful titillation.

-Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review

Carrie: The Musical

Michael Driscoll's modestly scaled but superbly directed production for Bailiwick Chicago works — and, no, I have not taken leave my critical faculties — because it is mined for teenage truth. The production is deadly serious. When the title character gets drenched in prom-night blood — your heart goes out to the girl.

-Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

Michael Driscoll's casting and direction are spot-on.

-Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader

Director Michael Driscoll's expertise at fitting song-and-dance extravaganzas to small spaces makes for a production never exceeding the proportions of its surroundings, but instead emerging a parable as intimate as its microcosmic setting.

-Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Media Group

In the true Chicago theatrical tradition of rock-solid ensemble acting, director Michael Driscoll has elevated the material to a level that I’m sure will surprise many who plan to attend this for a campy, bloody good time.

-Robert Bullen, Huffington Post

Barefoot In the Park

Michael Driscoll's staging for Step Up Productions, however, wisely pretends it's still 1963, with no ironic nods to the revolution to come... I laughed and enjoyed, especially Alex Fisher's performance as Corie, and thought, gee, I've gotta watch this Neil Simon kid, he's going places. 
-Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader

Desperate Dolls

I can't say enough about how well this is all done, from Raquel Adorno's florid period costumes (and Lee Russell's makeup) to Heath Hays' sound design (a specific pop song plays hauntingly on the transistor radio each time blood is spilled) to Michael Driscoll's direction (the show is deeply sinister) to the individual performances themselves, including those of the three young wannabe starlets played by Hillary Marren, Alexandra Fisher and Kelsey Shipley.
-Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune