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The stories of America's great writer performed onstage

Critical notices for over
20 Years of Performances


The New York Times
“Miss Currin remains a wonder… Miss Currin’s voice, body and spirit are completely inhabited by the small town eccentrics and Gothic demons that haunt the southern imagination of the writer Eudora Welty.” Frank Rich, 1985

The Boston Herald
“Magnificent … A symphony of names and phrases and scenes from Welty’s works. Spoken rhythmically over Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, the words tip off her tongue and blend like harmonic chords.” Terry Byrne, 1989

Chicago Sun-Times
“Sister has a human glow… Wild and unexpected flashes of emotion are what Welty is about – and Currin’s blithe and delicate attack gives them a surprising intensity.” Hedy Weiss, 1985

The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A finely detailed and pungently flavored account ….The short story ‘Why I live at the P.O.’ emerges as a comic tangle.” William B. Collins, 1988

The New York Post
“An irresistible invitation to share that sweet madness … Currin’s impersonations of Welty’s vibrant characters take their life from the musicality of her voice – which roams the scale in pursuit of a sister’s narcissistic whine and a father’s patriarchal rumble. But the deeper delight of her characterizations lies in their mischievous humor and unsentimental brand of humanism.” Marilyn Stasio, 1980

The New York Times
“The actress has tapped right into the writer’s stream of consciousness …The words pour out of her like music.” Frank Rich, 1980

New York Magazine
“Miss Currin looks, move and sounds sovereignly right … Miss Currin does very well by the jilted suavely rancorous Sister of the post-office story, who sustains and torments her kinfolk even as she is sustained and tormented by them.”
John Simon, 1985

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