Marie Antoinette
"Froiland gives us a person clearly out of her depth when trouble comes, but with a steely resolve to survive and escape even as that becomes impossible. It's a performance that commands our attention...Froiland-naturally-leaves the deepest impression."
Ed Huyk, Star Tribune
"The show is a tour de force for Froiland, who goes as far as Adjmi takes her and then pushes beyond."
Jay Gabler, City Pages
"Jane Froiland is marvelous as the title character, going through the full range of emotions and showing us there's more to the spoiled queen than just what we see on the surface. She's conflicted, she's lonely, she's worried about her children, she wants to be seen and loved for who she is."
Jill Schafer, Cherry and Spoon
Marie Antoinette is the Jane Froiland show. Froiland plays Marie with sparkly energy, eyes flashing, giggling. Brittle and powerful at the same time. Marie is at sea, quite lost, but Froiland never lets on. She wears bizarre wigs as if born to them. Her lapses into passion and anger give her substance. They could make her petty, but it is to Froiland's great credit that they do not. Froiland truly gives a play-making performance. She reveals herself to be an actor of power and presence. As if we ever doubted it."
John Olive, How Was the Show
"He is more than assisted by Jane Froiland"s monumental performance as Marie Antoinette...Froiland is fast becoming one of our finest actresses, bringing a range of characters vividly to life. This may be her strongest performance yet."
Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
Ed Huyk, Star Tribune
"The show is a tour de force for Froiland, who goes as far as Adjmi takes her and then pushes beyond."
Jay Gabler, City Pages
"Jane Froiland is marvelous as the title character, going through the full range of emotions and showing us there's more to the spoiled queen than just what we see on the surface. She's conflicted, she's lonely, she's worried about her children, she wants to be seen and loved for who she is."
Jill Schafer, Cherry and Spoon
Marie Antoinette is the Jane Froiland show. Froiland plays Marie with sparkly energy, eyes flashing, giggling. Brittle and powerful at the same time. Marie is at sea, quite lost, but Froiland never lets on. She wears bizarre wigs as if born to them. Her lapses into passion and anger give her substance. They could make her petty, but it is to Froiland's great credit that they do not. Froiland truly gives a play-making performance. She reveals herself to be an actor of power and presence. As if we ever doubted it."
John Olive, How Was the Show
"He is more than assisted by Jane Froiland"s monumental performance as Marie Antoinette...Froiland is fast becoming one of our finest actresses, bringing a range of characters vividly to life. This may be her strongest performance yet."
Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
The Norwegians
"Froiland is often hilarious as the Texan-in-Minnesota. She gives Olive a charming loopiness."
Rohan Preston, Star Tribune
"The cast is perfect. Jane Froiland is hilarious as Olive, totally over her head in putting a contract out on her ex, and completely disassociated from the reality of her actions."
Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
"Dark and Stormy Productions has assembled an unimpeachable cast, all of whom seem to relish the material. Froiland may have the trickiest [role.] It's a delight watching her lurch from timidity to exuberance and back again at the drop of a hat, keeping the audience uncertain of just what game she's playing at, or whether she's playing a game at all."
Ira Brooker, Minnesota Playlist
Rohan Preston, Star Tribune
"The cast is perfect. Jane Froiland is hilarious as Olive, totally over her head in putting a contract out on her ex, and completely disassociated from the reality of her actions."
Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
"Dark and Stormy Productions has assembled an unimpeachable cast, all of whom seem to relish the material. Froiland may have the trickiest [role.] It's a delight watching her lurch from timidity to exuberance and back again at the drop of a hat, keeping the audience uncertain of just what game she's playing at, or whether she's playing a game at all."
Ira Brooker, Minnesota Playlist
The Realistic Joneses
" All four actors are terrific and they capture the spirit, needs, fears, and illusions of their characters. Jane Froiland brings unfiltered energy to Pony, unable to maintain a thought, let alone an interest, yet who is truly seeking something true around her."
Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
"Jane Froiland is in The Realistic Joneses. As always, she delights. She projects catchy breeziness, with a goofy smile and an energetic friendliness. All underlaid with real pain, loneliness ans a shaky bitterness which she only occasionally, but dramatically allows to percolate to the surface."
John Olive, How was the Show
"Pony, by contrast, is childish; an incomplete person with feelings and sensibilities easily bruised. Jane Froiland allows the character to try on emotions-pouty one minute, flighty and flirty the next-and gives the character both an allure and a sense that Pony's mental saddle might not be fully strapped on."
Dominic Papatola, Pioneer Press
Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
"Jane Froiland is in The Realistic Joneses. As always, she delights. She projects catchy breeziness, with a goofy smile and an energetic friendliness. All underlaid with real pain, loneliness ans a shaky bitterness which she only occasionally, but dramatically allows to percolate to the surface."
John Olive, How was the Show
"Pony, by contrast, is childish; an incomplete person with feelings and sensibilities easily bruised. Jane Froiland allows the character to try on emotions-pouty one minute, flighty and flirty the next-and gives the character both an allure and a sense that Pony's mental saddle might not be fully strapped on."
Dominic Papatola, Pioneer Press
An Octoroon
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"Jane Froiland provides zest and energy as the antebellum ingenue Dora." -John Olive, How Was the Show
"Jane Froiland is an absolute hoot as the stereotypical and overly dramatic Southern Belle. " -Broadway World |
Rocket to the Moon
"But it’s Jane Froiland’s maginificent portrayal of Cleo that consummates this extraordinary theatrical experience. As each of the men present a way to stigmatize and stereotype her, Cleo is able to deftly escape their snares. It’s as if this intense engagement with various types of male negativities makes her stronger and stronger and sharper in shaping her future." -John Townsend, Lavendar Magazine
"While the performances are strong throughout, it is the work by Hansen and Froiland that makes the show go...Froiland brings a lot of complexity to a character that could be just a sketch, and eventually makes her the show's heroine, or least the one person who seems to have a future." -Ed Huyck, City Pages
" And then there is the uber-marvelous Jane Froiland as Cleo Singer. Fresh and lovely, charming and effervescent, honest and forthright (despite her initial tendency to tell tall tales) in her relentless pursuit of a better life, one understands completely the passion the characters in this play feel for her. Froiland has been circling about Twin Cities theater scene for some time. It’s time to see her in more prominent roles."
-John Olive, How was the Show
"While the performances are strong throughout, it is the work by Hansen and Froiland that makes the show go...Froiland brings a lot of complexity to a character that could be just a sketch, and eventually makes her the show's heroine, or least the one person who seems to have a future." -Ed Huyck, City Pages
" And then there is the uber-marvelous Jane Froiland as Cleo Singer. Fresh and lovely, charming and effervescent, honest and forthright (despite her initial tendency to tell tall tales) in her relentless pursuit of a better life, one understands completely the passion the characters in this play feel for her. Froiland has been circling about Twin Cities theater scene for some time. It’s time to see her in more prominent roles."
-John Olive, How was the Show
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
"As Margaret, Jane Froiland is stuck with the tricky proposition of being a good actress having to play a bad actress who then grows into a pretty good actress. Another set of refracting mirrors, and another clear reading of the role: Froiland's Margaret is determined but fragile, ambitious but self-aware." -Dominic Papatola, Pioneer Press
"Margaret Hughes, Kynaston's rival and the first professional woman actor, encounters the same difficulty. Kynaston and Hughes are two halves of a complementary soul wrestling with the question of how we gauge gender... Jane Froiland finds in Hughes a woman confident at court but a mess of insecurities on stage... He and Froiland bristle with realism as Othello and Desdemona." - Graydon Royce, Star Tribune
"It's eventually the women in Kynaston's life who create the biggest changes, and this charge is led by Teres Marie Doran as seamstress-turned-actress Maria and by Jane Froiland as the first "real" stage beauty, Margaret Hughes. The pair doesn't get nearly as much time as Vaughn — Froiland disappears for large stretches in the second act — but they craft characters that live and breathe even when they're not in the scene. The final run-through of the climax of Othello, with Kynaston and Hughes finally letting go of their layers to dive into the play-within-the-play, proves to be a real test of actors' talents — a test they pass with flying colors." -Ed Huyck, City Pages
"Margaret Hughes, Kynaston's rival and the first professional woman actor, encounters the same difficulty. Kynaston and Hughes are two halves of a complementary soul wrestling with the question of how we gauge gender... Jane Froiland finds in Hughes a woman confident at court but a mess of insecurities on stage... He and Froiland bristle with realism as Othello and Desdemona." - Graydon Royce, Star Tribune
"It's eventually the women in Kynaston's life who create the biggest changes, and this charge is led by Teres Marie Doran as seamstress-turned-actress Maria and by Jane Froiland as the first "real" stage beauty, Margaret Hughes. The pair doesn't get nearly as much time as Vaughn — Froiland disappears for large stretches in the second act — but they craft characters that live and breathe even when they're not in the scene. The final run-through of the climax of Othello, with Kynaston and Hughes finally letting go of their layers to dive into the play-within-the-play, proves to be a real test of actors' talents — a test they pass with flying colors." -Ed Huyck, City Pages
My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding
"The show has a breezy, sketch-comedy feel and is directed with professional polish by Michael Kissin, who gets fully committed performances from his cast...Jane Froiland offers a couple of nice turns as David's girlfriend, wife and co-writer, Irene." -Erin Hart, Pioneer Press
Tempests
"Jane Froiland gives an ethereal and scary performance as the mad spirit."
Ed Huyck, City Pages
"Jane Froiland was amazing as Ariel- I did not even recognize her."
Scott Gilbert, audience review
Ed Huyck, City Pages
"Jane Froiland was amazing as Ariel- I did not even recognize her."
Scott Gilbert, audience review
Doubt, a parable
"Ten Thousand Things Theater's Doubt is a taut, 75-minute ride into the world of accusations, mistrust, and the ever-shifting nature of the truth. In the hands of four terrific actors and guest director Peter Rothstein, it also lights up the stage with passion and often-raw rage that is absolutely mesmerizing."
"As Sister James, Jane Froiland appears to be the most innocent of the characters. She desperately wants to believe that nothing untoward has happened and at times lets her distaste for her superior show, creating a deep, satisfying character."
-Ed Huyck, CIty Pages
"Doubt is undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable pieces of theater to grace Twin Cities stages in a long time."
"As Sister James, Jane Froiland strikes the correct balance between romantic idealism and suspicion."
-John Olive, How was the Show
Jeeves in Bloom
Jeeves a Crowd Pleaser
"The rest of the cast also does a fine job, from Sally Ann Wright's scheming Dahlia to Clarence Wethern and Jane Froiland as the dim-bulb lovers, Gussie and Madeline."
-Ed Huyck, Lakeshore Weekly
"Froiland too is delightfully melodramatic in her mannerisms as a starry-eyed girl who writes romantic poetry, and who is quick to succumb to her mistaken belief in the romantic interest of Bertie, at the expense of the genuine interest of Gussie."
-Elizabeth Lofgren, TC Daily Planet
"The rest of the cast also does a fine job, from Sally Ann Wright's scheming Dahlia to Clarence Wethern and Jane Froiland as the dim-bulb lovers, Gussie and Madeline."
-Ed Huyck, Lakeshore Weekly
"Froiland too is delightfully melodramatic in her mannerisms as a starry-eyed girl who writes romantic poetry, and who is quick to succumb to her mistaken belief in the romantic interest of Bertie, at the expense of the genuine interest of Gussie."
-Elizabeth Lofgren, TC Daily Planet
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
"I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf"
"Sean Dooley and Jane Froiland did a fantastic job in their own right...She succeeded beautifully in following Honey through the many stages her character visits after she has a few glasses of brandy and the ugly side of her relationship with Nick. Although Albee only hints at it in his dialogue, Froiland also succeeds in bringing a dimension of Honey that many 'Virginia Woolf' audiences never get to see-her probable history of sexual abuse, when, wide-eyed and fear-stricken, Honey drunkenly believes she is somewhere else, in a memory where she screams 'I don't want any, go away.'"
Shiver Cities Blog
"Frankly, this revival is the best production of this play I have seen. It's four actors-including Jane Froiland as Nick's mousy spouse, Honey are better than those in the 1966 film... All four Jungle actors best the four in the film.
John Townsend, Lavender Magazine
Barefoot in the Park
"Vibrant Leading Lady, Retro Charm Keep Old Standby Fresh and Fun."
"Jane Froiland is so effervescent and cute portraying the wide-eyed bride in 'Barefoot in the Park' that she's easy to fall in love with. Froiland bubbles with childlike excitement on Corie's first day in her new apartment after her honeymoon...Starting Gate's version of 'Barefoot in the Park' brings fresh vitality to a well-worn story-especially with a leading lady so vibrant she doesn't need a spotlight to shine."
Renee Valois, Pioneer Press
"The play however belongs to Jane Froiland's portrayal of Corie Bratter...I can say with all objective honesty that after a decade in the creative industry, there have been few, if any performances that could be truly be described as perfect. This was such a performance. Every emotion and action was meticulously and magnificently executed. It was the kind of acting that inspires others to take up the craft."
Taylor Cisco III, TC Daily Planet
"Thanks to Froiland’s relentless energy as Corie, and both actors’ finely tuned comic timing, they nicely capture the absurd logic in the young lovebirds’ protracted fight, and steer the whole wacky mess to its satisfying conclusion."
Janet Preus, How Was the Show
"Jane Froiland is so effervescent and cute portraying the wide-eyed bride in 'Barefoot in the Park' that she's easy to fall in love with. Froiland bubbles with childlike excitement on Corie's first day in her new apartment after her honeymoon...Starting Gate's version of 'Barefoot in the Park' brings fresh vitality to a well-worn story-especially with a leading lady so vibrant she doesn't need a spotlight to shine."
Renee Valois, Pioneer Press
"The play however belongs to Jane Froiland's portrayal of Corie Bratter...I can say with all objective honesty that after a decade in the creative industry, there have been few, if any performances that could be truly be described as perfect. This was such a performance. Every emotion and action was meticulously and magnificently executed. It was the kind of acting that inspires others to take up the craft."
Taylor Cisco III, TC Daily Planet
"Thanks to Froiland’s relentless energy as Corie, and both actors’ finely tuned comic timing, they nicely capture the absurd logic in the young lovebirds’ protracted fight, and steer the whole wacky mess to its satisfying conclusion."
Janet Preus, How Was the Show