press
"Donnah Welby’s Gwendolen, all breathy and headstrong, delivers the most fully developed performance. When Miss Welby quietly states “I am never wrong,” it is with such confidence that few men, and certainly not Jack Worthing, would try to convince her otherwise. Here is a wide-eyed and winsome Gwendolen who knows her own mind and, further, knows she will always get her way."
— The New York Times
"Ms. Welby’s Hermia can in almost the same breath express her passionate yearnings to Lysander while ordering him “to lie yet further off” when they bed for the night in the woods. She accepts as only her due the ardent proclamations of love from both Demetrius and Lysander, yet when she becomes the woman scorned, she is a feisty hellcat, quite capable of scratching out the eyes of her lifelong friend. It’s an assured and funny performance."
— The New York Times
"Donnah Welby has her moments as Julia, especially later on when she is torn between her own femininity and being an “Ibsen” woman, decrying men who would make a pet of her. “Why not offer me a saucer of milk,” she says."
— The New York Times
"Indeed it would be hard to imagine a more ravishing and accomplished slim-waisted vamp on Broadway or in films than Donnah Welby as Julia Craven, this play’s no-holds-barred mixture of smiles, claws, kisses and tears."
— New York post
"Welby was wonderful as the vamp in Shaw’s “The Philanderer”, and I couldn’t take my eyes off her this time, either."
— New York post
"The Marquise is not dead, of course. She, and Marivaux, are saying the things we so often don’t say out loud today, and saying them elegantly…. the class of the production, redheaded Donnah Welby as the Marquise."
— New York post
"Donnah Welby’s Olga is a study of regret, a portrayal of the spinster schoolteacher who is incapable of stopping the dissolution of their lives, either because she is too tired or has a headache."
— The New York Times
"Donnah Welby’s Andromache embodies despair itself when the triumphant Greeks murder her young son to finish off the Trojan royal family."
— The New York Times
"Donnah Welby’s Lady Macbeth conceals bone-chilling determination under an ever-composed and regal tone. Ramrod sure of purpose, hers is an inspired performance that culminates in the haunting sleepwalking scene."
— the west side spirit
"Donnah Welby and Stuart Lerch show a particularly apt command of language and style in their illicit courtship."
— Dramalogue
"Drew is perfectly partnered by Donnah Welby’s sensitive work as her fretful, good-hearted sister. Blanche carries herself like a fragile vessel, recently broken and doubtfully glued together. Yet she’s a warmly hopeful spirit. The uneasy bond between these middle-aged sisters is beautifully realized here."
— The Star Ledger
"The impressive performances of the sisters, Sandra Drew as Kate and Donnah Welby as Blanche are truly memorable."
— The Montclair Times
"As Arabella, the wicked stepmother, Donnah Welby is deliciously malicious, with batting eyelashes and a haughty delivery that never came across a French phrase it couldn’t fracture."
— The Tampa Bay Times
"Felicia Dantine (Donnah Welby) is a laugh a minute, as the real estate broker who finds Rally a flat. Middle-aged, overdosing on chutzpah, she’s a quintessential New Yorker."
— Union News
"Donnah Welby’s performance as a dizzy Manhattan real estate agent provides ongoing laughs."
— Optimist Arts
"Donnah Welby has the audience in the palm of her hand and keeps them there the entire play as she excels in her portrayal of Theo, Felt’s wife. Welby offers the right physical look, facial expressions and every perfect movement to portray a woman who’s been able to be in complete control of her life until she discovers her husband of 32 years has spent the last nine of those married to someone else."
— the Key West Citizen
"Welby was most amusing as the almost bitchy, very lacquered Lillian."
— The News-Times
"Donnah Welby’s nurse gives a fantastic performance that ranges from unforced humor as she wards off riff-raff with her oversized fan or clutches her aching back to credible grief upon finding Juliet “dead”."
— Post Star
"Donnah Welby’s sarcastic and overbearing Boo is wonderful."
— Up & Coming Magazine
"Donnah Welby and Julie Novak always get the laughs and obviously have a grand time doing so."
— The News and Observer
"In this ensemble drama with an exceptionally strong cast, Welby’s depiction of Boo stands out. Her forceful performance doesn’t upstage her colleagues, but she is nonetheless missed when she’s not onstage. Her character is a kind of demonic Jane Wyatt, a hybrid of too-cheerful sitcom mother and Southern belle hovering over every round of her daughter’s dating contest as though it were a championship bout. Lala feels that God may have favored the blond Sunny. But Lala is wrong. God smiled on her when He gave her a mom like Boo."
— Miami New Times
"the irrepressible Boo Levy is Donnah Welby, seen Off-Broadway at the Pearl Theatre Company."
— Coral Gables Gazette
"It’s brought to life by an expert cast, led by Donnah Welby as the no-nonsense Boo Levy."
— News Radio 610
"The best performance comes from the down-to-earth, motherly Donnah Welby as Maggie Antrobus, who cultivates the domestic arts even as her husband comes home from his office in New York with the wheel and the alphabet. Welby plays a 40’s housewife and mother with not a trace of a modern PC agenda."
— The Hartford Courant
"The success of the evening belongs to the performers. Pelton and Donnah Welby, the actress half of the Clytemnestra duo, carried the evening without once becoming ridiculous – and the ridiculous was stalking them all night."
— The Washington Post
"The laughs come almost as fast, but it will be hard to forget Clarke and Welby’s dance scene patching up a quarrel re-creating the night so many years ago when they wound up on the beer cases in the cloak room."
— Niagara Gazette
"Pasquarello is wonderful. The rest of the cast is just about as strong, especially Welby."
— Metro Weekend
"Welby’s timing is quite good and I particularly liked her scenes with Georgie."
— The Buffalo News
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