Reviews - Plays
All’s Well That Ends Well
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Virginla Shakespeare Festival (VA)
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PA)
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“There is one fine performance on view and it is a stellar one. This is Kathleen Huber as the Countess of Rousillon. Ms. Huber makes the role her own in suggesting a woman who is as elegant as her station demands but also can turn on the fire when protecting her admirable adopted daughter or her philandering son. She handles the language with beautiful ease which allows us to relax and capture the cadence.”
– The Virginian-Pilot
“As the Countess of Rousillon, Kathleen Huber is real and luminous.”
– Philadelphia Weekly
Kathleen Huber as the Countess of Roussillon, with Chris Hull
The Crusade of Connor Stephens
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Jerry Orbach Theater (NY)
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“Grandma Vivi’n is played by Kathleen Huber, whose performance is lovely and grounded, wise, firm and gentle, funny and tragic all in a moment.”
– Stage Buddy.com
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"Grandma Vivi'n (the magnificent Kathleen Huber) gives a jolt of wit and pathos to the proceedings."
– Off Off Online
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"Kathleen Huber delivers a brilliant performance as the aging matriarch who has held her tongue far too long and chooses honesty and grace as her way forward."
– Theatre Reviews Ltd.
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Kathleen Huber as Grandma Vivi'n
The Importance of Being Earnest
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Two River Theatre (NJ)
Worcester Foothills Theatre (MA)
Theatre Ten Ten (NY)
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“Leading the pack as she must is Kathleen Huber as the indomitable Lady Bracknell, in the bravura turn that this grand lady demands. Her brilliant comic set pieces are priceless.”
– Martin’s Guide to NY Theatre
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“Lady Bracknell is Wilde’s most perfect creation, and Kathleen Huber fills it to a ‘tea’. Skewering British pretension as Wilde’s surrogate, Ms. Huber’s Lady Bracknell is exquisite.”
– The Two River Times
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“In the plum role of Lady Bracknell, Kathleen Huber finds every whimsical nuance, every satiric shade to deliver what is easily the production’s show-stopper performance, playing it magnificently to the hilt.”
– MetroWest Daily News
Kathleen Huber as Lady Bracknell
The Cripple of Inishmaan
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Centenary Stage (NJ)
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“Kathleen Huber is a total delight as Mammy O’Dougal. Although Mammy is 90 years old and has been inebriated for as long as anyone can remember, she is sharp as a tack, and as delightful as Bushmills Irish Whiskey.”
– Talkin’ Broadway
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“Edwards supplies Johnny’s news diatribes with color, but it is his indomitable, liquor-loving Mammy, played by Kathleen Huber with a Cheshire Cat grin and a devil-may-care charm, who steals scenes.”
– The Star-Ledger
Kathleen Huber as Mammy O’Dougal, with David Edwards
Lettice and Lovage
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American Heartland Theatre (MO)
Boars Head Theatre (MI)
Blowing Rock Stage (NC)
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“Kathleen Huber, an actress with impressive credentials, is simply a class act. She manages to claim a role written specifically for Maggie Smith as her own. It’s hardly hyperbole to say that Huber lights up the stage.”
– The Kansas City Star
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“Kathleen Huber as Lettice is one of the best things ever to happen to the Stage Company. She is a marvel on the stage, lighting up her incredible lines with glorious charisma.”
– The Blowing Rocket
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“Go to see it, if for nothing else, to watch Kathleen Huber in action as Lettice. Imagine the style and grace of Rosalind Russell blended with the passion and fire of Katharine Hepburn and you have the performance we saw opening night.”
– The Mountain Times
Kathleen Huber as Lettice Douffet
Doubt
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Foothills Theatre (MA)
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“Kathleen Huber’s Sister Aloysius surveys Neil McGarry’s Father Flynn with the relentless fastidiousness of someone implacably fortified by the certainty of her suspicions.
Yet there is a muted sense of compassion in her critical observations. Huber wields her body language and inflection with the indomitable assurance of a woman both protecting her time-tested beliefs and the threat of second thoughts about her quarry.
Huber’s performance is a mesmerizing display of obsession fueled by moral purpose.”
– Telegram & Gazette
Kathleen Huber as Sister Aloysius
The Mousetrap
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Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre (MO)
Centenary Stage (NJ)
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“Kathleen Huber is wonderfully cranky and highbrow as Mrs. Boyle. Her voice and expressive face are perfect, and her movement is right on. She embodies this ex-magistrate in all ways.”
– Morris Beats
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“The irritatingly arrogant Mrs. Boyle is played to perfection by Kathleen Huber, whose credits include seven Agatha Christie characters (among them the beloved detective, Miss Marple.)”
– NJ Arts Maven
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“Kathleen Huber strongly lays the groundwork for the entire production.”
– Talkin’ Broadway
Kathleen Huber as Mrs. Boyle, with David Edwards
I Hate Hamlet
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Bickford Theatre at Morris Museum (NJ)
Wayside Theatre (VA)
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“Kathleen Huber as Lillian is superb, with her accent, her cigarettes and her memories of Barrymore. The scene with Barrymore and Lillian in Act II is enchanting.”
– Independent Press
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“Kathleen Huber contributes a finely-etched portrayal of an elderly German theatrical agent once seduced by Barrymore. When they meet again and begins waltzing, the moment borders on the magical.”
– Northern Virginia Daily
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“Kathleen Huber as Lillian has a special quality, touched by the spirit of both Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman. She has a smart mouth and a smart mind, and Huber gives her depth of heart and soul.”
– Warren Sentinel
Kathleen Huber as Lillian Troy, with Rick Delaney
The Mystery of Irma Vep
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American Heartland Theatre (MO)
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“Whatever reservations I had tried to quell about the Heartland’s casting of a role Ludlum explicitly conceived for a man mirthfully vanished five minutes into Kathleen Huber’s terrific performance(s) as the homicidal Jane Twisden and Lord Edgar Hillcrest.”
– The New Times
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“An outstanding two-person cast drives this show to the edge. Kathleen Huber and Gus Kaikkonen are tireless and remarkably fluid in their constant transformation from character to character to character. It takes perfect comic sense and timing to pull this show off, and Huber and Kaikkonen do just that.”
– The Examiner
Kathleen Huber as Lord Edgar, with Gus Kaikkonen.
Hay Fever
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Dorset Theatre Festival (VT)
Centennial Theatre Festival (CT)
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“Much of the credit for the success of this rapidly-paced, laugh-a-minute production goes deservedly to Kathleen Huber as she takes the wife and mother to dizzying heights of hilarity. She masters Coward’s wonderful throwaway lines, and flamboyantly revels in her scenes of imagined crises, making Judith totally believable and incredibly funny.”
– The Post-Star
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“From her earliest entrance, Kathleen Huber establishes herself at the center of the play. With a diva’s sweeping gestures and coquettish turns of the head, she is a woman who is always on. Huber makes hay of every line and appears to have a ripping good time doing it.”
– The Hartford Courant
Kathleen Huber as Judith Bliss,
with Susanna Newman and Kameron Steele
Appointment with Death
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Dorset Theatre Festival (VT)
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“The family is headed by its iron-willed matriarch, whose Victorian elegance belies a more sinister entity seething within. If evil comes clothed in lace, Kathleen Huber’s Mrs. Boynton is handsomely attired. ‘Things just aren’t the same for them without me’ she muses, and one can almost hear the rumble of far-off thunder.”
– The Manchester Journal
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“Kathleen Huber informs her portrayal of the imperious Mrs. Boynton with an evil zest. She easily gains the hatred of her family and that of the audience. Any one of us would be quite willing to do her in.”
– The Post-Star
Kathleen Huber as Mrs. Boynton, with Brian Barth and Larissa Kiel
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Caldwell Theatre (FL)
Wayside Theatre (VA)
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Kathleen Huber is at once abhorrent and beguiling as the peerless Marquise, who lives only for conquest and corruption of any value in any form that she can reach. But Huber’s portrayal is far from one-dimensional. She should be applauded for her skill in uncovering brief glimpses of humanity in Merteuil and her struggle to destroy these impulses.”
– The Winchester Star
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“La Marquise is played by Kathleen Huber, who has created a character who could cut glass with her heart. La Marquise calmly disrupts lives just to show that she can, and Huber does not shy from any aspect of the character.”
– The Palm Beach Post
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“Kathleen Huber is perfect as the evil, conniving Marquise. She is the quintessential femme fatale.”
– Palm Beach Daily News
Kathleen Huber as La Marquise de Merteuil, with Mark Lewis
An Ideal Husband
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Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ)
Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre (PA)
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“Kathleen Huber, as Lady Markby, steals a scene or two, and has the rare quality of leaving an audience to hope she’ll soon reappear.”
– Courier News
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“One of the most memorable is an amazing performance by Kathleen Huber as Lady Markby, who bemoans the trials of the old ways and sniffles dismissively at the new.”
– Pittsburgh Post-Gazette​
Kathleen Huber as Lady Markby
Moon Over Buffalo
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Iowa Summer Repertory (IA)
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“Kathleen Huber is a rousing success as Charlotte Hay, an aging performer whose heady vaudeville days and opportunities for big film roles are both behind her. It’s a great role, and this performer really knows how to make the most of every hilarious line. Huber gives her an emotional center, appreciates (but never overplays) her love for melodrama, and earns huge laughs for her superb work.”
– Quad City Times​​
Kathleen Huber as Charlotte Hay
The Beaux's Stratagem
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Pasadena Playhouse (CA)
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“Kathleen Huber illuminates every facet of the character until it sparkles and gleams like a diamond of the first water. She has the absolute authority and biting incisiveness of the true comedienne, and an equal command of the technique needed to convey true emotion.”
– Hollywood Citizen-News​​
Kathleen Huber as Mrs. Sullen,
With Michael Edwards
