Enchanted April

2003 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominee and Outer Critics Circle Award recipient for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Clive Barnes - NY Post
  As the two middle-aged frumpish ducklings transformed by love and sunshine to near-swans, a reluctant Molly Ringwald and a transcendently transformed Jayne Atkinson are delightful.
• Ben Brantley - NY Times
  [I]t's Ms. Atkinson, as one of the vacationers, who produces the truly magical transformation. Whenever she's onstage, she turns a weak cup of theatrical treacle into a brimming beaker of ambrosia.
• Elysa Gardner - USA Today
  Jayne Atkinson captures the warmth and whimsy of Lotty...
• Howard Kissel - NY Daily News
  As the frustrated housewife who initiates the journey, Jayne Atkinson is radiant throughout.
• Michael Kuchwara - Associated Press
  [T]hat first housewife, embodied with considerable sweetness by Atkinson, ... gives the evening's most accomplished and heartfelt performance.

Our Town

• Michael Kuchwara - Associated Press
  Coming off best is Jayne Atkinson as the commonsensical Mrs. Gibbs. Atkinson grounds the role in a touching sense of the ordinary...
• Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
  Only Jayne Atkinson's flinty Mrs. Gibbs feels at home in Wilder's universe.
• Malcolm Johnson - Hartford Courant
  ... the most full and finished performances come from Jayne Atkinson as the busy, caring, wifely, motherly Mrs. Gibbs and from Jeffrey DeMunn as the diligent, lawn-mowing Mr. Webb. Both mime perfectly but without affectation, and their accents have an authenticity, never overdone.
• Howard Kissel - NY Daily News
  Jayne Atkinson is similarly powerful as the mother of the young man whom all the parents feel is marrying too soon.
• Clive Barnes - NY Post
  And that cast, from tip to toe, is exceptional ... The parents, Frank Converse and Jayne Atkinson as Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs, and Jeffrey DeMunn and Jane Curtin as the Webbs all seem to have stepped out of life, or at least life as seen by Thornton Wilder.
• Ben Brantley - NY Times
  And Ms. Atkinson, one of the finest actresses on the New York stage, is first rate as George's mother. There is nothing flashy about her Mrs. Gibbs. But whether she's feeding an imaginary flock of chickens or savoring the smell of heliotrope, she inhabits every scene with a sharpness, simplicity and immediacy that, like the play itself, fully values the small and fleeting moments in life.
• Michael Sommers - NJ Star-Ledger
  Giving the revival's best-grounded performance, brisk yet warm, Jayne Atkinson is as solid as the hills as Mrs. Gibbs.
• Elysa Gardner - USA Today
  Jane Curtin and Jayne Atkinson deftly juggle humor and gritty pragmatism as the elder Mrs. Webb and her neighbor Mrs. Gibbs...
• Peter Marks - Washington Post
  Atkinson, in particular, gives a satisfying account of Mrs. Gibbs's anxious forbearance...

The Vagina Monologues

Triangles for 2

• Atkinson and Jones' Triangles Stop Ringing at Westport, Aug. 5
• Playbill On-line article

The Rainmaker

2000 Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Rainmaker on Radio
• Roundabout Theatre press release
• photo of Jayne and Woody Harrelson
• Playbill On-line photo
• another Playbill On-line photo
• Salon.com review
• New York Theatre Wire review
• Broadway Beat review
• Theatremania.com review
• Boston Phoenix review [Williamstown production]

Ivanov

• a Playbill On-line opening night photo collage
• Playbill On-line article with photo

All My Sons

The Skriker

• Aisle Say review