The Glass Menagerie - London - Feb. 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007

“Jessica Lange gives a shakingly powerful performance as Amanda, unleashing an emotional tyranny over Tom. She weaves, quite brilliantly, a magical spell of utter dependence around the hapless Tom. Concerns that Lange’s voice lacked sufficient power can be discounted. In the highly emotional scenes with Tom, the stage all but shakes with her anger, her voice bouncing off the set. This is acting of the highest order, a performance that will long ring in the memory…." - The Daily Express

"Jessica Lange has admitted that her Broadway incarnation of Amanda, the matronly Southern belle, was less than happy. But that experience pays handsome dividends - no garrulous dragon, her expressive body language, gestures, every intonation creating from within a poignant portrayal. If, lately, doubts have been expressed about the wisdom of importing Hollywood actors, Ms Lange brings compelling gifts of theatrical magic to grace the London stage." - The Stage

 

The Glass Menagerie - New York - March 22, 2005 - July 3, 2005

"No other actor's voice is as convincing as Jessica Lange's, with its mixture of nervousness, charm, and strident need. Her Amanda is a radical reinterpretation-and such a revealing one that she actually makes you see "The Glass Menagerie" in a different way." - The New Yorker

"Lange, whose Blanche garnered mixed reviews, seems committed to and at ease with Amanda's quirks and contradictions. We see her selfishness and her sacrifices, her ideals and obsessions in all their tragic, ridiculous and admirable intensity." - USA Today

"Lange's Amanda comes on strong. This Amanda has found not only her inner Blanche DuBois but her inner Scarlett O'Hara. With her stiff, marcel-waved hair, her shining eyes eternally fixed on some internal fantasy of bliss, Lange flutters like a vulture." - New York Post

"...Jessica Lange brings just the right mixture of fire and water, cunning and desperation." - The New York Blade

 

Long Days Journey Into Night - London - November 2000 - March 3, 2001

"Lange becomes truly spectre-like as wife and mother Mary's morphine addiction tightens its merciless grip. On the way, Mary's violent mood swings show Lange's impressive emotional range and depth.”." - BBC News

"She is strikingly attractive, modishly dressed, resolute in her love for the husband and sons who have been a disappointment to her. But Lange, known in the UK mainly for her film appearances, confirms that she is a stage performer of considerable stature.” -" The Stage

"Lange gives a magnificently unsentimental performance." - The Guardian

"Jessica Lange earns a place in the gallery of memorable Mary Tyrones. - Lizzie Loveridge, Curtain Up

 

A Streetcar Named Desire - London - 1996

A Streetcar Named Desire - New York - April 12 - August 9, 1992