Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks

The New York Times, 1991
“Mary Jane Wells, Gordon G. Jones, and Fred Burrell, among others, manage to uncover bitter humor beneath the drama.”

The Village Voice, 1991
“Mary Jane Wells as a cynical old poet...proved once again that only a little inner fire is needed to make Linney's careful, low-key prose blaze like poetry in the spectator's mind.”

“Do not Go Gentle”
Kennedy Center

“Shotgun”
Signature Theater Co.

Shotgun

Westport News, 1995
“Mary Jane Wells has harvested the hints offered in Mr. Linney's dialogue and has molded a warm, believably flawed human being from them.”

The Weekly, 1995
“Veteran actors Larry Swansen and
Mary Jane Wells are brilliant as John's parents...Their stage presence is exceedingly natural, a pleasure to watch.”

WMNR Fine Arts Radio, 1995
“Mary Jane Wells infuses the part of Sarah with exquisite grace.”

Lost in Yonkers

Express-Times, 1994
“The central character is Grandma, played by Mary Jane Wells...Ramrod straight and tall, crippled by a cruel episode in her tragic childhood, Grandma is unable to show love and support to her family. Yet Wells leaves the audience with the knowledge that Grandma, unfeeling though she seems, suffers physical and mental agony silently and loves her children deeply. Wells does an excellent job of understanding her character.”

“Lost in Yonkers ”
Pennyslvania Stage

“Taxicab Chronicles”
NY Performance Works

Jigsaws

Westport News, 1992
“A white-haired scene-stealer with tremendous style, Mary Jane Wells is superb as Emma.”

The Advocate, 1992
“Mary Jane Wells is delicious as the grandmother who learns to kick up her heels. Her gentle grandmotherly voice never changes, even as she plans to go off on a world jaunt with a neighboring widower.”

Greenwich News, 1992
“Mary Jane Wells is lovely and amusing as Emma.”

The Hot L Baltimore

Chelsea Clinton News, 1993
“The stellar performance of this production goes to Mary Jane Wells' gentle, transcendent portrayal of the aged Millie.”

King Lear

New York Times on the web, 2000
“Mary Jane Wells gives the production's most natural and appealing performance as Gloucester, and her eye-gouging by Regan and Cornwall is the play's most exciting moment.”

Backstage, 2000
“...consider the palpable performance of Mary Jane Wells as the Earl of Gloucester - one full of pathos...”

The Tempest – Midland Reporter, 2002

“'It’s really a plum,' said Mary Jane Wells, who is playing Prospero…'Most men my age would be delighted to be cast as Prospero. For a woman to be cast as Prospero is just astounding. I never thought that would happen to me. Prospero is like King Lear or Macbeth or Hamlet. It still makes me laugh to think about it.' In casting the part [of Prospero,] the Globe’s artistic director Anthony Ridley remembered Ms. Wells, who played the Earl of Gloucester in a New York production of King Lear, which featured Ralph Waite of The Waltons in the title role.”