Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
“G.R. Johnson is lively as Henry, and as Byron … grasping at subtlety and
sensuality …”
- Alvin Klein, The New York Times
“G.R. Johnson genuinely achieves the rhapsodic, high romantic spirits of
Lord Byron …”
- Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger, NJ
Undiscovered Country
“There are sharply detailed characterizations everywhere … principally by
G.R. Johnson as a dashing lieutenant …”
- Kevin Kelly, The Boston Globe
Romeo and Juliet
“… considerable intelligence [and] uniform excellence of its principal
performances … G.R. Johnson’s Romeo is an equally convincing teenager, quick
to fall in love …”
- Clifford A Ridley, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“The performances are nearly flawless … Johnson as Romeo makes an appealing
lovesick swain. His mop-topped good looks and sinewy physique are the stuff
of teenage dreams.”
- Meryl Maschal, The Trenton Times, NJ
“G.R. Johnson is a romantic Romeo … a figure of dashing charm. The famous
balcony scene was as brilliantly playful, as achingly comic, as slyly erotic
as ever ...”
- Stuart Duncan, Bucks County Courier-Times, PA
“This production has value if for no other reason than it offers the really
impressive performances of G.R. Johnson and Elizabeth Mestnik.”
- Clark Groome, Chestnut Hill Local, PA
The Lion in Winter
“In particular, G.R. Johnson, as King Philip of France, has that kind of
intriguing face that makes him a stage-grabber.”
- Daniel Skora, The Monitor, Detroit, MI
Dracula
“There’s some great acting in this show. Especially excellent players are
Jerry Richardson’s Renfield and G.R. Johnson as Arthur Holmwood, who really
played a sarcastic jerk well …”
- Susan E. Lindt, Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA
What the Butler Saw
“The farceurs assembled are an accomplished group. There’s good work by G.R.
Johnson as Beckett …”
- Clifford A Ridley, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“G.R. Johnson plays the lecherous bellhop, who, drugged out and in drag, has
some pricelessly funny moments …”
- Gary L. Day, Philadelphia Gay News
Look Homeward Angel
“G.R. Johnson as Eugene displays the easy charm and grace of a 17-year-old,
the tenderness of a young man who experiences a great loss, and the
determination of a man who must leave to survive.”
- Franklin Harris, The Times-News, Hendersonville, NC
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
“As Lord Alfred Douglas, G.R. Johnson cuts an angelic figure in an English
public schoolboy style …”
- Jay Handelman, Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, FL
Othello (at Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot), East Village, NY)
“Last time I checked, there wasn’t a junkie, transvestite hooker in Othello.
That’s why when a strung-out looking guy in a blond wig and pink spandex
wandered on stage and leaned against a lamppost, I wondered if maybe “she”
really was a neighborhood hooker, and not some actor … Turns out she was an
actor …”
-
Andrea Meyer, resident.com
Comedy of Errors
“I had a great time at the play and it was great. You did great on it. You
have talent. It made
me laugh when you were making those smells.”
- Letter from Tim, Fort Myers Elementary, FL
Seven.11.2005: seven, eleven-minute plays set in a convenience store.
“Director G.R. Johnson demonstrates remarkable versatility in finding the
right tone and rhythm for each of these very different works; with
simplicity and elegance … Seven.11.2005 is a grand celebration of
storytelling, immigrant experiences, and cross-cultural pollination. What we
have to learn from one another is just boundless …”
- Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
