Kathy McCafferty

...a masterful, multi-faceted performance by Kathy McCafferty...McCafferty endows Blanche with a radiant, charming joy, buoyancy and zest for life. As a result, we yearn for her to be happy.

Knowing Kathy McCafferty’s outstanding performances in past Dramaworks productions “Outside Mullingar” and “Little Foxes,” I had expected her to take on the pivotal role of Blanche with a sense of ownership. She does...The audience is clearly mesmerized by McCafferty’s performance, which by play’s end left everyone breathless.

McCafferty, who astutely speaks with authority which brings substantive credibility to Nadia's unwavering principles, supplies a feisty fervor throughout, a key element missing from Julianne Moore's oddly tentative portrayal in original Broadway production.

at once charming and conniving...and utterly unforgettable.

Kathy McCafferty created a stage persona of both physical beauty and dramatic veracity.

Portrayed by Kathy McCafferty with that sort of room-filling effervescence that we sense borders on desperation, Lurene is looking hard for something she later learns might never have been real. McCafferty's energetic performance made even her character's rediscovery of a familiar regional confection into a remarkable event.

But it is Kathy McCafferty who gifts us with one of the finest performances of the season in her singular unique creation of a haunted Blanche whose past drives her inexorably forward into behaviors almost guaranteed to lead to disaster.

McCafferty is winning as the blazingly intelligent, lovely and determined heroine whose strength barely masks a longing that threatens to burst out her body. McCafferty perfectly depicts those warring elements.She makes credible Shanley's admiring view that the couple would never get together if not for Rosemary's courage and perseverance, which rivals that of the Bible's Ruth. Try not fall in love with her yourself.

I will never again be able to see the character of Rose without recalling Kathy McCafferty's indelible performance.