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From The Bridge "Outstanding, a sharp and emotionally affecting
performance." "Aching yet tough, bitter and sweet." "Rock solid...Jacobson's comic timing is spot
on." "An incisive portrait of a determined woman." |
Death of a Salesman
"Naomi Jacobson makes a full blooded character out of the
sketchy role of Willy's Boston girlfriend."
Broadway Regional News & Review
"A splendid Naomi Jacobson in the climactic hotel
memory scene."
Curtain Calls
The Unmentionables
"Naomi Jacobson in a keenly acidic performance ...a very
funny compendium of every acquisitive, licentious and self dramatizing
gesture we recognize as features of a peculiar brand of American solipsism...she
seems to have stepped into Africa directly from the petites department
of Nordstrom. Jacobson adroitly conveys something at once risible and
monstrous: the cold hard core under Nancy's soft shell."
The Washington Post - Peter Marks
"Naomi Jacobson, the perennially versatile actress
covers new comic ground with her brilliant obnoxious Nancy."
The Examiner
"Jacobson is a petite blond dynamo, ...her performance
is a comic marvel."
The Baltimore Sun
"Jacobson delivers a bravura, tour-de-force, presto
tempo performance."
DC Theatre Scene
Vigils
"There’s both a solidity and vulnerability in Jacobson’s
personable Widow that at once make her feelings seem authentic and yet
allow for the possibility that she’s on the brink of drowning in
her delusions."
The Washington Post - Peter Marks
"Ms Jacobson shines...at times bitchy, funny and touching
in her exploration."
Curtain Up
"Jacobson’s Widow is a creature of lightning
mood shifts, smiles fading in mid-syllable, eyes brightening with hope
even as she’s descending into an anxiety attack."
The City Paper - Bob Mondello
"Miss Jacobson's interactions with Mr. Shiffman are
so hilariously abandoned that you alternately wince at the sight of them
and applaud their nerve."
Washington Times
"Jacobson is a pure delight."
Potomac News
"Her acting effortlessly turns from riotous physical comedy to heartfelt
sorrow."
DC Theatre Review
Raised in Captivity
"Jacobson gives a zero-to-60-in-one-second comic performance."
The Washington Post - Lloyd Rose
Patience
"Naomi Jacobson has a wickedly wayward way with brittle
cocktail chatter, then breaks your heart without a word."
The City Paper - Bob Mondello
"Jacobson adds a welcome sensual charge to the proceedings."
The Washington Post - Peter Marks
The Psychic Life of Savages
"Naomi Jacobson plays (her) as a boozy sexpot, and it’s
another one of Miss Jacobson’s beautifully nuanced, sharp yet vulnerable
portrayals."
Metropolitan Times - Nelson Pressley
"Jacobson, whose performances get deeper and bolder
every time she appears in a play, is a sexy shrugging Anne, brittle but
also lazy, drifting rather than plunging toward her destruction."
The Washington Post - Lloyd Rose
Two Gentlemen of Verona
"Naomi Jacobson is a riot…a brassy gossip with a broad
Jersey accent."
The Washington Post - Nelson Pressley
Big Love
"Jacobson is a veritable goddess of wrath. Have you ever
seen Jacobson pull off a tantrum-ballet? ... don’t mess with an
irate Jacobson."
Washington Post - Chip Crews
Kvetch
"There are some riotous sex scenes….and Jacobson is
in her comic element."
The Washington Post - Lloyd Rose
"Jacobson makes his wife at once kittenish and sex-crazed,
overflowing with a desire that seems to surprise her…”
The City Paper - Bob Mondello
A Hard Heart
"It is fascinating to watch Naomi Jacobson, one of Washington’s
most fearless comic actresses in such an oratorio driven work."
The Washington Post - Pamela Sommers
"When Jacobson’s ramrod posture fails her in
the second act…her collapse is harrowing."
The City Paper - Bob Mondello
Scenes From An Execution
"Jacobson’s spirit and humanity loosen the rigid corset
of Galactia’s integrity and the production is better for it."
The Washington Post - Lloyd Rose
"The feral nature of Jacobson’s Galactia, (makes)
her sexual aggression explosively immediate. Her love-making scenes are
painfully real, at once passionate and hurtful, sexy and filled with contempt."
The City Paper - Bob Mondello
"Miss Jacobson is an unstoppable torrent of defiance
and dissent as Galactia."
Metropolitan Times - Nelson Pressley
The Silent Woman
"And what pleasures are on display! Naomi Jacobson’s
Madame Haughty is a poisonous bonbon packaged in blue-black and orange."
The City Paper - Trey Graham