“Refreshing… Original and timely!” – Toronto Star
“Bristling with individuality and universality… Mr. Malloy’s score makes fractured thought audible... What’s captured in these voices is how we feel – seduced, exhilarated, lost and dirty – every time we turn on our computers or smartphones and fall into a time-devouring wormhole.” – The New York Times
“Makes the Internet take musical form.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Not only is Octet one of the most thought-provoking and soul-stirring musicals I’ve seen in ages, it has an ingeniously woven, harmonically lush score that you'll want to revisit. Malloy’s melding of indie-rock, punk, electronica and a sort of medieval plainsong is ridiculously catchy (and his deft lyrics quite witty).” – The Observer
“[Octet] once again reveals its writer-composer to be one of the most creatively audacious talents working in musical theater today.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“All of Malloy’s messy inclusiveness, his aggressive hoarding of data, attitude, allusions, science and superstition... It’s very Internet, right? But instead of eyesore and brain-fog, my time with Octet made me feel more alive, more connected: Forget the iPhone; pass the Iowaska.” – The Observer
“Ravishing… What makes Octet so remarkable is how it weds subject and form – part confessional, part choral meditation, part fever dream – It is about the loneliness of our digital obsessions, but it combats that isolation with the oldest instrument of human connection: the human voice. In a time when technology often divides us, this show insists on the redemptive force of live harmony.” – BroadwayWorld